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hkm

Blackwood: Etudes: 16edo. 4

Blackwood: Etudes: 18edo. 3.5

Blackwood: Etudes: 21edo. 1.8

Blackwood: Etudes: 23edo. 2.7
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Blackwood: Etudes: 13edo. 2
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Blackwood: Etudes: 15edo. 3.6
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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
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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

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.

Tapeworm Saga: Languor Study. 4.5

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

Xotla Music: Brusselator Sprouts. 3.9