User talk:Hkm/Rankings

hkm

TODO: Scale ratings so that 1-4.5 goes to 0-5.
Abnormality: Moondust. 3.7

Abnormality: towerjamcalm.mp3. 3.5

Blackwood: Etudes: 16edo. 4

Blackwood: Etudes: 18edo. 3.5

Blackwood: Etudes: 21edo. 1.8

Blackwood: Etudes: 23edo. 2.7
EDITED 2025.03.21

Blackwood: Etudes: 13edo. 2
EDITED 2025.03.21

Blackwood: Etudes: 15edo. 3.6
EDITED 2025.03.21
you have to make it past the first six seconds

Blackwood: Etudes: 17edo. 2.8

Blackwood: Etudes: 22edo. 2.8

Blackwood: Etudes: 24edo. 4

Blackwood: Etudes: 14edo. 2.8

Blackwood: Etudes: 20edo. 3.7

Blackwood: Etudes: 19edo. 2.6
EDITED 2025.03.21
meandering

Blackwood: Etudes. 3.5

Costa: Danse-Etude. 3.5

Costa: Short piece. 2.8

Costa: Arabesque. 4
intriguing

Costa: Enharmonic Study (31edo version). 3.8
31edo
technically impressive but not fun to listen to

Costa: Debussy's "Syrinx" arranged for flute quartet. 4.4

Costa: Messaien's "O Sacrum Convivium". 2.8
Timbre isn't as good as syrinx, piece isn't as interesting, microtonalism isn't as apparent...

dogwithabome: to have my bones be one with the river. 3.7
fascinating short sketch

DotuXil: Collected Refractions: A Multitude of New Colors. 2.6
the emphasis is clearly more on production than tuning

DotuXil: Collected Refractions: Odd Harmonic. 2.3
not a fan of the voice
feels very lacking in variation between consonance in dissonance.
last few seconds are great

E8 Heterotic (Chris Simmons): Glaukos Circuit. 1.5

fesh: It's a long way down... do you want to jump?: VII. and all the harvest shall rot. 4.3

Groundfault: A New Dusk. 3.3
Worse than the sum of its tracks. Hard to listen to in full, and the timbre of the bass isn't great. The composition itself is great though.

Hunt: Equal-Tempered Keyboard: Prelude in 14et. 3.3

Jumble: Azure. 4.5

Nuorvala: Violin sonata. 5
fantastic work

Osmium: Heartbeat. 4

Serafini: Do Androids Dream of 18ed2?. 3.6

Sintel: Top Ten most Epic fish of all time. 3.8
too many non-xen movements. Would score a 4.3 if everything was xen.

Sintel: Diversion in 34. 2.9
A really hard one to give a rating to. Sounds great locally, but a mess globally. I don't hear a coherent macrostructure, even though stylistically it is similar to genres of music that tend to have a coherent macrostructure, so I end up feeling lost.

Tapeworm Saga: Languor Study. 4.5

Tapeworm Saga: A quick quintet, music for 5 EWIs in 17edo. 3
Production really holding this one back, but I don't love the writing as much as Languor Study either.

Wrenharmonic: Larger Than The Oceans. 3.5

Xotla Music: Rive. 2.7
Byrnes does it better.

E8 Heterotic: No Threes for You. 2.5 hkm (talk) 02:34, 24 March 2025 (UTC)

Domin

Johnston: String Quartet No. 4. 5

Unque

Blackwood: Etudes: 15edo. 4.5
I cannot stress enough how influential this piece was for me.  This was the first piece that convinced me that radically-xen tunings like 15edo were worth getting into.

Jumble: Undiminished. 3.5
This one has a bouncy energy to it that I really enjoyed, but I can't help but feel that it doesn't quite justify its usage of such a massive EDO for such a relatively low degree of melodic variety.

DotuXil: Collected Refractions: Odd Harmonic. 3.8
If I wasn't sold on the value of nonoctave tunings before listening to this, I was absolutely convinced afterwards.  13edt is far from my favorite representation of BPS (nor is BPS my favorite nonoctave tuning in general), but this piece makes it work very well.

Groundfault: A New Dusk. 5
Even outside of xenharmony, this is the type of music I'd be into, and the usage of microtones feels genuinely natural rather than purely novel.  By far among my favorite albums of all time, xenharmonic or otherwise.

cellularAutomaton

Sintel: Top Ten most Epic fish of all time. 5
iconic, beautiful

Blackwood: Etudes: 17edo. 2.7
lots of fun

Blackwood: Etudes: all others. 1.3 (Hi! hkm here. Including this line will cause the ranking on the main page to have "Etudes: all others" as a work with a ranking, which is not helpful. I think that by making this comment here I'm also removing this entry from being counted by the program.)
less fun

Groundfault: A New Dusk. 0
compositionally a hot mess. i don't like HATE it but something has to be the 0

Johnston: String Quartet No. 4. 2.5

Tapeworm Saga: A quick quintet, music for 5 EWIs in 17edo. 4.4
really good classical-esque style and heterodyning-esque timbres

Jumble: Azure. 1.3
muddy

Costa: Debussy's "Syrinx" arranged for flute quartet. 3.1

Tapeworm Saga: Languor Study. 3.8

vivi mouse: fog. 3.8

Tall Kite

Harrison: From Ancient Worlds. 5

Godtone

Abnormality: towerjamcalm.mp3. 4.6
31edo

Abnormality: towerjamfight.mp3. 4.6
31edo

benyamind: A progression in 31-tone equal temperament. 4.5

Blackwood: Etudes: 16edo. 4.5

Wrenharmonic: Larger Than The Oceans. 4.4
53edo

Grégoire Blanc: A microtonal teatime jam. 4.4
27edo

LΛMPLIGHT: Caftaphata. 4.2
41edo + JI + 12edo

E8 Heterotic (Chris Simmons): Glaukos Circuit. 4.2
29edo

SunScent: Mimicry Symdrome. 4.2
31edo

dotuXil: Collected Refractions: Enter Nil. 4.2
22edo

Abnormality: Moondust. 4.2
26edo
Have to listen to it multiple times with openness, I feel. Initially I liked it meaningfully less than Stardust but now I slightly prefer it I think...

Abnormality: Stardust. 4.1
22edo
Intense in a way I don't really see in 12edo music.

dotuXil: Collected Refractions: Cheat Codes. 4.1
19edo

Xotla Music: Rive. 4.1
17edo

Xotla Music: Equilibrate. 4.1
13edo

SunScent: KYO/Punitive Life. 4.0
31edo

Uncreative Name: Isles of Despair. 4.0
15edo

E8 Heterotic (Chris Simmons): No Threes For You. 4.0
34edo

E8 Heterotic (Chris Simmons): Ennead Dance. 3.9
17edo

Sintel: Diversion in 34. 3.9
34edo

Xotla Music: Brusselator Sprouts. 3.9
13edo

Sintel: Top Ten most Epic fish of all time. 2.5
various
I listened to it because it was the top ranked thing. It made me feel impatient, but I made sure to listen to at least a couple of parts of every song. I think it's just not really my thing, I prefer music with focus on chordal harmony with accompanying melody. Also, though the production seems good, it makes my ears feel discomfort sometimes (which is nothing to do with whether it sounds good or not); perhaps some high frequencies lurking or something. There are definitely various cool parts in it that I liked though. Hence I feel neutral about it.

Budjarn Lambeth

Sevish: Rhythm and Xen: What Year Is This?. 4

Sevish: Rhythm and Xen: Guano Sequence. 2

Sevish: Rhythm and Xen: Sleep Deprived Cooked Alive. 2

Sevish: Rhythm and Xen: Spellbound. 3

Sevish: Rhythm and Xen: Moonopolis. 5

Sevish: Rhythm and Xen: Chattering Circuits. 3

Sevish: Rhythm and Xen: Longwayaway People. 5

Sevish: Rhythm and Xen: Earthling. 2

Sevish: Rhythm and Xen: It Is. 5

Sevish: Rhythm and Xen: Make a Dream. 2

Sevish: Rhythm and Xen: Droplet. 5

Sevish: Rhythm and Xen: Neon Tetra Elemental. 2

Sevish: Rhythm and Xen: Desert Island Rain. 5

Sevish: Harmony Hacker: Orbital. 4

Sevish: Harmony Hacker: Ask Yourself. 3

Sevish: Harmony Hacker: Same Old. 3

Sevish: Harmony Hacker: Gleam. 5

Sevish: Harmony Hacker: We Can't Be Blamed. 2

Sevish: Harmony Hacker: Freathy. 2

Sevish: Harmony Hacker: Vidya. 5

Sevish: Harmony Hacker: Midnight Cascade. 5

Sevish: Harmony Hacker: So Thankful. 3

Sevish: Horixens: Come on a Jouney. 4

Sevish: Horixens: Baobaoshuijiaojiao. 5

Sevish: Horixens: In the Zoon. 3

Sevish: Horixens: Unreality. 5

Sevish: Horixens: Better Left Unanswered. 4

Sevish: Horixens: Outside. 3.5

Sevish: Horixens: Septilion Reptilians. 4

Sevish: Horixens: Streaming. 3

Sevish: Horixens: Horizons. 4

Sevish: Bubble: Plot Hole. 4

Sevish: Bubble: You Tell Me. 3

Sevish: Bubble: Some Things Must. 3

Sevish: Bubble: Fuschiamarine. 3

Sevish: Bubble: Starfish. 3

Sevish: Bubble: Dream Up. 3

Sevish: Bubble: Some Things Must Reprise. 4

Sevish: Bubble: Almighty Fractal. 2

Sevish: Morphable: The Mad Mile. 2

Sevish: Morphable: Everyone. 4

Sevish: Morphable: Launch. 3

Sevish: Morphable: Yeah Groove. 2

Sevish: Morphable: Rain Pitted 99. 3.5

Sevish: Morphable: Tritavium. 3

Sevish: Morphable: Saccades. 3

Sevish: Morphable: Rocko's Theme. 3

Sevish: Big Sway: Zero Nothings. 3

Sevish: Big Sway: Pwns. 3

Sevish: Big Sway: Who Knows. 3.5

Sevish: Big Sway: Door Into Fantasy. 3

Sevish: Big Sway: Backtrace. 3.5

Sevish: Big Sway: Bare Layers. 3.5

Sevish: Big Sway: There Is Something Else. 2

Sevish: Big Sway: Oscid. 3

Sevish: One With The Fractal: This Track. 3.5

Sevish: One With The Fractal: The Dreamer. 3

Sevish: One With The Fractal: Day For Night. 2.5

Sevish: One With The Fractal: Don't Worry Too Much About It. 5

Sevish: One With The Fractal: Good Looking Aft. 3

Sevish: One With The Fractal: Soundways. 2.5

Sevish: One With The Fractal: Fusilification. 2.5

Sevish: One With The Fractal: Wait What. 2.5

Sevish: One With The Fractal: Durationplex. 3.5

Sevish: One With The Fractal: Triple Trouble. 2

Sevish: One With The Fractal: Automaton. 2

Sevish: One With The Fractal: False Awakening. 2.5

Sevish: One With The Fractal: Cosmic Playtime. 4.5

Byrnes: Holocene Dream: Mesozoic. 5

Byrnes: Holocene Dream: Out of the Sun. 5

Byrnes: Holocene Dream: Eons. 5

Byrnes: Holocene Dream: Rhinosaur Beach. 5

Byrnes: Holocene Dream: Cambrian Explosion. 5

Byrnes: Holocene Dream: Weird Room. 5

Byrnes: Holocene Dream: Home. 5

Byrnes: Holocene Dream: Weird Mansion. 5

Byrnes: Holocene Dream: 27EDO Etude. 5

Byrnes: Holocene Dream: Holocene. 5

Byrnes: Holocene Dream: Holocene Dream. 5

Byrnes: 2227: Murmurations. 5

Byrnes: 2227: Chromawaves. 5

Byrnes: 2227: Pangaean Islands. 5

Byrnes: 2227: Sensi Cathedrals. 5

Byrnes: 2227: Glass Islands. 5

Byrnes: 2227: Golden Stare Stare. 5

Byrnes: 2227: VC. 5

Byrnes: 2227: Crystal Cove, Pt 1. 5

Byrnes: 2227: Carpentaria, Pt 2. 5

Byrnes: Realism: Sun and Shadows. 5

Byrnes: Realism: Falling Man. 5

Byrnes: Realism: Droner. 5

Byrnes: Realism: Lacuna. 5

Byrnes: Realism: Unreachable Island. 5

Byrnes: Realism: Melt. 5

Byrnes: Realism: Indefinite Suspension. 5

Byrnes: Realism: Wishbone. 5

Byrnes: Realism: Space That Calls. 5

Byrnes: Realism: Under the Waves. 5

Byrnes: Room Tapes: Geometric Shapes. 5

Byrnes: Room Tapes: Ifs. 5

Byrnes: Room Tapes: Cave Dance. 5

Byrnes: Room Tapes: Far Out. 5

Byrnes: Room Tapes: Slow Rotation. 5

Byrnes: Room Tapes: Blurry Vision. 5

Byrnes: Room Tapes: Life After. 5

Byrnes: Neutral Paradise: Entrance. 5

Byrnes: Neutral Paradise: Hysteria. 5

Byrnes: Neutral Paradise: Fluorescent City. 5

Byrnes: Neutral Paradise: Operator. 5

Byrnes: Neutral Paradise: Electric Plains. 5

Byrnes: Neutral Paradise: Paradise. 5

Byrnes: Neutral Paradise: Outside La. 5

Byrnes: Neutral Paradise: Kaleidoscopic. 5

Byrnes: Neutral Paradise: Electric Seven. 5

Byrnes: Neutral Paradise: Light Tunnels. 5

Byrnes: Neutral Paradise: Exit. 5

Byrnes: Neutral Paradise: Llurion. 5

Byrnes: Transfigured Earth I: Everything. 5

Byrnes: Transfigured Earth I: Halfway. 5

Byrnes: Transfigured Earth I: Siolan Sands. 5

Byrnes: Transfigured Earth I: Sunlight. 5

Byrnes: Transfigured Earth I: Unexpected Rain. 5

Byrnes: Transfigured Earth II: Blue Skies. 5

Byrnes: Transfigured Earth II: Alive. 5

Byrnes: Transfigured Earth II: Groundswell. 5

Byrnes: Transfigured Earth II: Remote Caverns. 5

Byrnes: Transfigured Earth II: After the Rain. 5

Byrnes: Sunspots. 5

Byrnes: 27th Eclipse. 5

Xotla Music: Pico Metric: No Longer. 2.5

Xotla Music: Pico Metric: Surprise Me. 2

Xotla Music: Pico Metric: Light Pillars. 3.5

Xotla Music: Pico Metric: Deepest Pillars. 2.5

Xotla Music: Pico Metric: Breeze of Frost. 2.5

Xotla Music: Pico Metric: Cretaceous Cosmos. 3.5

Xotla Music: Pico Metric: An Other. 2.5

Xotla Music: Pico Metric: Dance of the Forest Lights. 5

Xotla Music: Pico Metric: Whorl Winds. 2

The Mercury Tree: Spidermilk: I Am a Husk. 4

The Mercury Tree: Spidermilk: Vestments. 2

The Mercury Tree: Spidermilk: Arc of an Ilk. 2

The Mercury Tree: Spidermilk: I'll Pay. 2.5

The Mercury Tree: Spidermilk: Interglacial. 2

The Mercury Tree: Spidermilk: Superposition of Silhouettes. 4

The Mercury Tree: Spidermilk: Kept Man. 2

The Mercury Tree: Spidermilk: (Throw up My) Hands. 3.5

The Mercury Tree: Spidermilk: Disremembered. 4

The Mercury Tree: Spidermilk: Brake for Genius. 3

The Mercury Tree: Spidermilk: Tides of the Spine. 2

Blackwood: Fanfare In 19-note Equal Tuning. 4.5

Blackwood: Etudes: 16edo. 3.5

Blackwood: Etudes: 18edo. 1

Blackwood: Etudes: 21edo. 3

Blackwood: Etudes: 23edo. 5

Blackwood: Etudes: 13edo. 1

Blackwood: Etudes: 15edo. 2

Blackwood: Etudes: 17edo. 4

Blackwood: Etudes: 22edo. 2

Blackwood: Etudes: 24edo. 1

Blackwood: Etudes: 14edo. 1

Blackwood: Etudes: 20edo. 2

Blackwood: Etudes: 19edo. 2

dotuXil: Collected Refractions: A Multitude of New Colors. 2

dotuXil: Collected Refractions: Reconfiguration in Progress. 2

dotuXil: Collected Refractions: Frost Battle. 2

dotuXil: Collected Refractions: Porky Spaceflight. 1

dotuXil: Collected Refractions: Odd Harmonic. 3

dotuXil: Collected Refractions: Icebound Gallery of Refractions. 4.5

dotuXil: Collected Refractions: Enter Nil. 3

dotuXil: Collected Refractions: Waterpad. 2

Gamelan Degung: Music from Bali: Sabilulungan. 5

Gamelan Degung: Music from Bali: Sangkala. 3

Gamelan Degung: Music from Bali: Gara Gara Cinta. 4

Gamelan Degung: Music from Bali: Hebat. 3

Gamelan Degung: Music from Bali: Kebaya Bundang. 4

Gamelan Degung: Music from Bali: Kapinis. 4

Gamelan Degung: Music from Bali: Mojang Sumedang. 3

Gamelan Degung: Music from Bali: Kedah Kasaha. 5

Benyamind: Namoic: Uradjinn. 4

Benyamind: Namoic: Elix Chorale. 3

Benyamind: Namoic: Hereninging. 3

Benyamind: Namoic: Xenzu Bean. 4

Benyamind: Namoic: Anahata. 5

Benyamind: Namoic: Woken Night. 4

Benyamind: Namoic: Chromacro. 4

Benyamind: Namoic: Sky Park. 3

Benyamind: Namoic: Aligned. 4

Benyamind: Namoic: From Worlds. 2.5

Benyamind: Namoic: Dreamer. 3

Benyamind: Namoic: The Soil. 4

Benyamind: Namoic: I still do. 5

Benyamind: Namoic: Haven Symphony. 3.5

Benyamind: Namoic: The Ambience. 3

Benyamind: Namoic: The Ancients. 3

Benyamind: Namoic: The real doesn't fade. 5

Greystar: Microtonal Nights: Reflection. 5

Greystar: Microtonal Nights: Koohnihn. 5

Greystar: Microtonal Nights: She Spun Merry. 5

Greystar: Microtonal Nights: Black Stream. 5

Greystar: Microtonal Nights: Kinder Radiance. 5

Greystar: Microtonal Nights: Lost in Dreaming. 5

Greystar: Microtonal Nights: Glimpse. 4

Greystar: Microtonal Nights: Dim Cold. 5

Greystar: Microtonal Nights: Handfuls of Orange. 5

Greystar: Microtonal Nights: A Frail Path. 4

Greystar: Microtonal Nights: Drenched. 5

Greystar: Microtonal Nights: Fogged. 5

Greystar: Microtonal Nights: Dec Solemn. 5

Greystar: Microtonal Nights: Swing Set. 4

Greystar: Microtonal Nights: Colos Dread. 5

Greystar: Microtonal Nights: Fades Again. 5

Greystar: Microtonal Nights: Fros. 4

Greystar: Microtonal Nights: Sky Pearl. 4

Greystar: Microtonal Nights: Acceptance. 5

Sintel: Top Ten most Epic fish of all time: Manta Ray. 3

Sintel: Top Ten most Epic fish of all time: Hagfish. 3

Sintel: Top Ten most Epic fish of all time: Sunfish. 4

Sintel: Top Ten most Epic fish of all time: Flatfish. 4

Sintel: Top Ten most Epic fish of all time: Wobbegong. 3

Sintel: Top Ten most Epic fish of all time: Ghost Shark. 5

Sintel: Top Ten most Epic fish of all time: Goby. 4

Sintel: Top Ten most Epic fish of all time: Barreleye. 4

Sintel: Top Ten most Epic fish of all time: Oarfish. 5

Sintel: Top Ten most Epic fish of all time: Coelacanth. 4

Sintel: Outer Gardens: Intro. 3

Sintel: Outer Gardens: Going OFF. 4

Sintel: Outer Gardens: Reed Sketches. 4

Sintel: Outer Gardens: Blue in Green. 4

Sintel: Outer Gardens: Gassy Webcap. 3

Sintel: Outer Gardens: Interlude (Live From the Attic). 3

Sintel: Outer Gardens: List of Lists of Video Game Terms. 3

Sintel: Outer Gardens: Come into the world my Child. 3.5

Sintel: Outer Gardens: Tiny Boy. 3.5

Serafini: Chameleons in the Sun. 5