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I'm Aura- short for DaffodilAura, and I'm a native English speaker.  For those of you who wish to find me on Discord, I'm daffodilaura.  If you wish to address me by my real name, call me "[[Dawson Berry|Dawson]]", but let's keep that form of address to private messages unless my user nickname says otherwise.  While I started my first mircotonal piece in 2014, I'm only just starting to get more serious about microtonality.
I'm Aura - short for DaffodilAura - and I'm a native English speaker.  For those of you who wish to find me on Discord, I'm daffodilaura.  If you wish to address me by my real name, call me "[[Dawson Berry|Dawson]]", but let's keep that form of address to private messages unless my user nickname says otherwise.  While I started my first mircotonal piece in 2014, I'm only just starting to get more serious about microtonality.


== My response to the Progress Report... ==
== My response to the Progress Report... ==
My response to [[ProgressReport]]:


'''<u>What was your path to discovering alternate tunings?</u>'''
'''<u>What was your path to discovering alternate tunings?</u>'''


I found microtuning while delving into the harmonic series, and I developed a particular fascination with the eleventh harmonic.  So much so, that in 2014, I wrote the first version of my first microtonal piece in 24edo, "[[:File:Folly of a Drunk (Musescore 3).pdf|Folly of a Drunk]]", under the working title "Folly".  Notably, the first version of this piece featured a modulation from a microtonality-enhanced version of key of A- alternating between Major and Minor- to a microtonality-enhanced version of the key of G-Demisharp Minor, all by use of chords built on 24edo's versions of both the eleventh harmonic and the eleventh subharmonic.
I found microtuning while delving into the harmonic series, and I developed a particular fascination with the eleventh harmonic.  So much so, that in 2014, I wrote the first version of my first microtonal piece in 24edo, "[[:File:Folly of a Drunk (Musescore 3).pdf|Folly of a Drunk]]", under the working title "Folly".   
 
[[File:Folly of a Drunk.mp3|thumb|none|Folly of a Drunk]]
 
Notably, the first version of this piece featured a modulation from a microtonality-enhanced version of key of A- alternating between Major and Minor- to a microtonality-enhanced version of the key of G-Demisharp Minor, all by use of chords built on 24edo's versions of both the eleventh harmonic and the eleventh subharmonic.


'''<u>What are your current/past/future particular interests?</u>'''
'''<u>What are your current/past/future particular interests?</u>'''
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== Ideas and Music Theory ==
== Ideas and Music Theory ==


[[User:Aura/Aura's Music Theory: Introduction|Aura's Music Theory: Introduction]]


[[User:Aura/Aura's Ideas of Consonance|Aura's Ideas of Consonance]]
General
* [[User:Aura/Aura's Music Theory: Introduction|Aura's Music Theory: Introduction]]
* [[User:Aura/Aura's Ideas of Consonance|Aura's Ideas of Consonance]]
* [[User:Aura/Aura's Diatonic Scales|Aura's Diatonic Scales]]
* [[User:Aura/Aura's Melodic Scales|Aura's Melodic Scales]]
* [[User:Aura/Aura's Ideas on Chords|Aura's Ideas on Chords]]
* [[User:Aura/Aura's EDO Impressions|Aura's EDO Impressions]]
 
Aura's Ideas on Functional Harmony
* [[User:Aura/Aura's Ideas on Functional Harmony (Part 1)|Part 1]]
* [[User:Aura/Aura's Ideas on Functional Harmony (Part 2)|Part 2]]
 
Aura & Fumica's Guide to Diatonic Functional Harmony
* [[User:Aura/Aura & Fumica's Guide to Diatonic Functional Harmony|Introductions and Hub]]
* [[User:Aura/Aura & Fumica's Guide to Diatonic Functional Harmony- Part 1|Part 1]]
* [[User:Aura/Aura & Fumica's Guide to Diatonic Functional Harmony- Part 2|Part 2]]
 
Guides to Composition in various [[EDO]]s
* [[User:Aura/Aura's introduction to 159edo|Aura's introduction to 159edo]]
 
Needs reorganizing
* [[User:Aura/Aura's Ideas on Tonality|Aura's Ideas on Tonality]]
 
EDO checking
* [[User:Aura/Archangelic EDO checks]]
* [[User:Aura/Archangelic EDO checks (continued)]]
* [[User:Aura/Miscellaneous EDO checks]]
 
== Composition ==
I work with several genres of microtonal music, but I'll put my work in various categories here, and also post a link to [https://www.youtube.com/@daffodilaura my YouTube channel]...
 
=== Experimental ===
 
'''<u>Space Tour</u>'''
 
This is a long song in a near-perfect approximation of [[159edo]] and which contains retemperings of 12edo, 14edo, 17edo, 19edo, 22edo, 24edo, 27edo, 31edo, 35edo and 41edo, with a stretch in a near-perfect approximation of 53edo before using the full near-perfect 159edo approximation.  There are other EDOs used and mimicked in the transitions.
 
[[File:Space Tour.mp3|thumb|none|Space Tour]]
 
This song has a story to go with it, and the story goes like this:
 
You pay to get on a spaceship to take a tour of some parts of space, and as you're getting ready, you imagine all the kinds of sights you'll see and that you'll have the experience of a lifetime, but after you arrive at the spaceport, you hear rumors about the company running the tour, and not the good kind. As you see many and various beautiful sights, ranging from nebulae, to strange planets and other things at different stops along the tour, and even take your share of pictures, you take time to reflect on what you'll tell your family back home about what you've seen. At the same time, you can't help but wonder about the rumors floating around. Eventually you overhear some of the staff talking about problems with the ship, and dissing the company for negligence. Sure enough, the ship is forced to turn around and head back to Earth, but as they arrive, suddenly, things start going wrong with the ship, and you're forced to get into an escape pod. After ejecting from the ship, your escape pod lands in the forest somewhere in Canada, and worse, the GPS on the escape pod that would otherwise alert rescuers to your position is busted, so you're effectively stranded. Eventually, however, you are found, and after a long string of interviews about your experience, you finally return home in one piece, but not without having had the experience of a lifetime and acquiring a mild case of PTSD.
 
As to which EDO is being used or mimicked where:
 
*0:00-0:14    1edo
*0:14-1:12    12edo
*1:12-1:27    2edo
*1:27-2:25    14edo
*2:25-2:39    1edo
*2:39-3:54    17edo
*3:54-4:53    19edo
*4:53-5:07    1edo
*5:07-7:16    22edo
*7:16-7:30    1edo
*7:30-9:29    24edo
*9:29-9:43    1edo
*9:43-10:41    27edo
*10:41-10:56  1edo
*10:56-11:53  31edo
*11:53-12:07  159edo; tonicization of note located roughly 11/8 above the original tonic
*12:07-13:19  35edo
*13:19-14:32  41edo
*14:32-14:52  159edo; tonicization of note located roughly 224/135 above the original tonic
*14:52-17:04  53edo
*17:04-17:22  159edo; tonicization of original tonic
*17:22-20:21  159edo; diatonic key with added 11/8, 13/8, and 55/32
 
'''<u>Welcome to Dystopia</u>'''
 
The original version of this song was a 12edo piece I wrote as part of the same collection as "Folly of a Drunk", however as I didn't have Audacity, or even a microphone back then, certain key elements were missing.  It got its start from a riff that I started humming- that riff is the first element you hear in the beta version.
 
[[File:Welcome_to_Dystopia_(Beta).mp3|thumb|none|Welcome to Dystopia (Beta)]]


[[User:Aura/Aura's Diatonic Scales|Aura's Diatonic Scales]]
After I got Audacity, and learned more about microtonality, I eventually decided to remake the song, reinstrumenting a number of parts, removing most of the repetitious material and replacing it with generous additions involving new instruments, and adding multiple Xenharmonic modulations, the most frequently used of which being modulations upwards by 11/8 and or down by 16/11.  I also added a few effects, and was also finally able to add the single vocal part that I had wanted to add almost from the beginning without having to speak it manually.


[[User:Aura/Aura's Ideas on Functional Harmony|Aura's Ideas on Functional Harmony]]
[[File:Welcome to Dystopia.mp3|thumb|none|Welcome to Dystopia (Final)]]


[[User:Aura/Aura's Ideas on Chords|Aura's Ideas on Chords]]
'''<u>The Forest of Loss</u>'''


[[User:Aura/Aura's EDO Impressions|Aura's EDO Impressions]]
The original version of this song was a 12edo piece I wrote as part of the same collection as the two videogame compositions below.  I like to try and build loops into songs of this variety where possible for the sake of continuity.


Aura & Fumica's Guide to Diatonic Functional Harmony
[[File:The Forest of Loss (Beta).mp3|thumb|none|The Forest of Loss (Beta)]]


[[User:Aura/Aura & Fumica's Guide to Diatonic Functional Harmony|Introductions and Hub]]
After finishing "Welcome to Dystopia", I wanted to remake another song, so I selected this song.  As I had previously scrapped most of the compositions from that collection, I had to re-download the Beta from the private Discord channel where I had previously shared it with a family member.  From there, it was a matter of listening to it and re-learning the original notes and rhythms of the song and making a new, detuned version with more instruments in MuseScore 3.  Of course, since this is still videogame music, there's still a loop built into the song, but a single iteration of the looped material now lasts roughly eight minutes.  What's more, this new version is now entirely drenched in reverb.


[[User:Aura/Aura & Fumica's Guide to Diatonic Functional Harmony- Part 1|Part 1]]
[[File:The Forest of Loss.mp3|thumb|none|The Forest of Loss (Final)]]


[[User:Aura/Aura & Fumica's Guide to Diatonic Functional Harmony- Part 2|Part 2]]
'''<u>Anticipation</u>'''


Needs reorganizing:
Shortly after I joined the Wiki, I wrote and experimental song in 24edo, and it runs through 1edo, 2edo, 3edo, 4edo, 6edo and 8edo- though not in that order- before going to quartertone-enhanced traditional tonality in 24edo itself.


[[User:Aura/Aura's Ideas on Tonality|Aura's Ideas on Tonality]]
[[File:Anticipation (Beta).mp3|thumb|none|Anticipation (Beta)]]


EDO checking:
However, I would later go on to add reverb using Audacity.


[[User:Aura/Archangelic EDO checks]]
[[File:Anticipation.mp3|thumb|none|Anticipation (Final)]]


[[User:Aura/Archangelic EDO checks (continued)]]
=== Videogame Compositions ===
A pair of weird and creepy microtonal songs that are the remnants of my participation in the music composition for a videogame- don't worry, I still own the rights to these songs since I asked to have them back when my work relationship with the budding company fell through.  If I recall correctly, both were written in an approximation of 94edo.


[[User:Aura/Miscellaneous EDO checks]]
[[File:Deadlands.mp3|thumb|none|Deadlands]]


== Composition ==
[[File:The_Forgotten.mp3|thumb|none|The Forgotten]]


'''<u>Hymns</u>'''
=== Hymns ===


Now, up until the time I've added this stuff to this page, not many people have suspected that I am in fact a devout Christian.  Indeed, I have long kept silent as I have come to expect vitriol from many online, but nevertheless, since I have found people in this community who are interested, I figure it's time to share these...
Now, up until the time I've added this stuff to this page, not many people have suspected that I am in fact a devout Christian.  Indeed, I have long kept silent as I have come to expect vitriol from many online, but nevertheless, since I have found people in this community who are interested, I figure it's time to share these...


<u>A Mighty Fortress Is Our God</u>
'''<u>A Mighty Fortress Is Our God</u>'''


[[File:A Mighty Fortress Is Our God.mp3|thumb|none|A Mighty Fortress Is Our God]]
[[File:A Mighty Fortress Is Our God.mp3|thumb|none|A Mighty Fortress Is Our God]]
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[[File:A_Mighty_Fortress_Is_Our_God (Score).pdf|thumb|none|The score to the above hymn arrangement.]]
[[File:A_Mighty_Fortress_Is_Our_God (Score).pdf|thumb|none|The score to the above hymn arrangement.]]


This hymn arrangement was written around Reformation Day last year, do note the usage of the eleventh harmonic, as well as the additional words in the transition sections...  Also note that this hymn arrangement was made in 159edo, though the accidentals in the score are 24edo accidentals due to MuseScore 3 not supporting Syntonic-Rastmic Subchroma Notation.
This hymn arrangement was written around Reformation Day of 2021, do note the usage of the eleventh harmonic, as well as the additional words in the transition sections...  Also note that this hymn arrangement was made in 159edo, though the accidentals in the score are 24edo accidentals due to MuseScore 3 not supporting Syntonic-Rastmic Subchroma Notation.


<u>God, You Love the Least of Us</u>
'''<u>God, You Love the Least of Us</u>'''


[[File:God, You Love the Least of Us.mp3|thumb|none|God, You Love the Least of Us]]
[[File:God, You Love the Least of Us.mp3|thumb|none|God, You Love the Least of Us]]
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This is an original hymn written by me for the Church.  Unfortunately, since I'm faced with same problem as above in the score, I'm forced to resort to the same solution.
This is an original hymn written by me for the Church.  Unfortunately, since I'm faced with same problem as above in the score, I'm forced to resort to the same solution.
=== Symphonies ===


'''<u>Winterbright Symphony</u>'''
'''<u>Winterbright Symphony</u>'''
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Emmett and Felix are reminiscing one evening, and Emmett, now knowing his father's history, remarks that Felix has had an adventure of a life, to which Felix, says "indeed and I look forward to what's next", before heading off to bed.
Emmett and Felix are reminiscing one evening, and Emmett, now knowing his father's history, remarks that Felix has had an adventure of a life, to which Felix, says "indeed and I look forward to what's next", before heading off to bed.
'''<u>Fantasizer's Symphony</u>'''
[[File:Fantasizer's Symphony (Whole Symphony).mp3|thumb|none|The Fantasizer's Symphony in its entirety]]
This symphony was written in 159edo over the course of late 2024.  It is a seven-movement symphony that tells a story, with an Overture, a Passacaglia, a Minuet & Trio, a Fugue, as well as two mini-movements- a Ponte and an Aspettativa- and, of course, the Finale.  The following are the movements to the Fantasizer's Symphony, along with their timestamps...
* 0:00-1:59 ... Unfolding of a Fantasy (Sonatina)
* 1:59-2:06 ... ''Transition''
* 2:06-5:49 ... The Journey Begins (Passacaglia)
* 5:49-6:44 ... Sights in the Distance (Ponte)
* 6:44-10:31 .. A Meaningful Dance (Minuet & Trio)
* 10:31-10:44 . ''Transition''
* 10:44-14:11 . Dissipation of Dreams (Fugue)
* 14:11-14:39 . Hard Reality (Aspettativa)
* 14:39-23:58 . The Truth behind the Fantasy (Sonata-Allegro)
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