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

Abnormality: Moondust. 3

Abnormality: Stardust. 3

Abnormality: towerjamcalm.mp3. 1

benyamind: A progression in 31-tone equal temperament. 3.5

Benyamind: Namoic: Aligned. 4

Benyamind: Namoic: Anahata. 5

Benyamind: Namoic: Chromacro. 4

Benyamind: Namoic: Dreamer. 3

Benyamind: Namoic: Elix Chorale. 3

Benyamind: Namoic: From Worlds. 2.5

Benyamind: Namoic: Haven Symphony. 3.5

Benyamind: Namoic: Hereninging. 3

Benyamind: Namoic: I still do. 5

Benyamind: Namoic: Sky Park. 3

Benyamind: Namoic: The Ambience. 3

Benyamind: Namoic: The Ancients. 3

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

Benyamind: Namoic: The Soil. 4

Benyamind: Namoic: Uradjinn. 4

Benyamind: Namoic: Woken Night. 4

Benyamind: Namoic: Xenzu Bean. 4

Berio: E vò. 1

Blackwood: Etudes: 13edo. 1

Blackwood: Etudes: 14edo. 1

Blackwood: Etudes: 15edo. 2

Blackwood: Etudes: 16edo. 3.5

Blackwood: Etudes: 17edo. 4

Blackwood: Etudes: 18edo. 1

Blackwood: Etudes: 19edo. 2

Blackwood: Etudes: 20edo. 2

Blackwood: Etudes: 21edo. 3

Blackwood: Etudes: 22edo. 2

Blackwood: Etudes: 23edo. 5

Blackwood: Etudes: 24edo. 1

Blackwood: Fanfare In 19-note Equal Tuning. 4.5

Boulez: Polyphonie X. 1

Byrnes: 27th Eclipse. 5

Byrnes: 2227: Carpentaria, Pt 2. 5

Byrnes: 2227: Chromawaves. 5

Byrnes: 2227: Crystal Cove, Pt 1. 5

Byrnes: 2227: Glass Islands. 5

Byrnes: 2227: Golden Stare Stare. 5

Byrnes: 2227: Murmurations. 5

Byrnes: 2227: Pangaean Islands. 5

Byrnes: 2227: Sensi Cathedrals. 5

Byrnes: 2227: VC. 5

Byrnes: Holocene Dream: 27EDO Etude. 5

Byrnes: Holocene Dream: Cambrian Explosion. 5

Byrnes: Holocene Dream: Eons. 5

Byrnes: Holocene Dream: Holocene Dream. 5

Byrnes: Holocene Dream: Holocene. 5

Byrnes: Holocene Dream: Home. 5

Byrnes: Holocene Dream: Mesozoic. 5

Byrnes: Holocene Dream: Out of the Sun. 5

Byrnes: Holocene Dream: Rhinosaur Beach. 5

Byrnes: Holocene Dream: Weird Mansion. 5

Byrnes: Holocene Dream: Weird Room. 5

Byrnes: Neutral Paradise: Electric Plains. 5

Byrnes: Neutral Paradise: Electric Seven. 5

Byrnes: Neutral Paradise: Entrance. 5

Byrnes: Neutral Paradise: Exit. 5

Byrnes: Neutral Paradise: Fluorescent City. 5

Byrnes: Neutral Paradise: Hysteria. 5

Byrnes: Neutral Paradise: Kaleidoscopic. 5

Byrnes: Neutral Paradise: Light Tunnels. 5

Byrnes: Neutral Paradise: Llurion. 5

Byrnes: Neutral Paradise: Operator. 5

Byrnes: Neutral Paradise: Outside La. 5

Byrnes: Neutral Paradise: Paradise. 5

Byrnes: Realism: Droner. 5

Byrnes: Realism: Falling Man. 5

Byrnes: Realism: Indefinite Suspension. 5

Byrnes: Realism: Lacuna. 5

Byrnes: Realism: Melt. 5

Byrnes: Realism: Space That Calls. 5

Byrnes: Realism: Sun and Shadows. 5

Byrnes: Realism: Under the Waves. 5

Byrnes: Realism: Unreachable Island. 5

Byrnes: Realism: Wishbone. 5

Byrnes: Room Tapes: Blurry Vision. 5

Byrnes: Room Tapes: Cave Dance. 5

Byrnes: Room Tapes: Far Out. 5

Byrnes: Room Tapes: Geometric Shapes. 5

Byrnes: Room Tapes: Ifs. 5

Byrnes: Room Tapes: Life After. 5

Byrnes: Room Tapes: Slow Rotation. 5

Byrnes: Sunspots. 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: After the Rain. 5

Byrnes: Transfigured Earth II: Alive. 5

Byrnes: Transfigured Earth II: Blue Skies. 5

Byrnes: Transfigured Earth II: Groundswell. 5

Byrnes: Transfigured Earth II: Remote Caverns. 5

Copland: Vitebsk. 1

Costa: Arabesque. 2

Costa: Debussy's "Syrinx" arranged for flute quartet. 1

Costa: Enharmonic Study (31edo version). 1

Costa: Messaien's "O Sacrum Convivium". 2

Costa: Short piece. 1

Couper: Dirge. 1

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

DotuXil: Collected Refractions: Enter Nil. 3

DotuXil: Collected Refractions: Frost Battle. 2

DotuXil: Collected Refractions: Icebound Gallery of Refractions. 4.5

DotuXil: Collected Refractions: Odd Harmonic. 3

DotuXil: Collected Refractions: Porky Spaceflight. 1

DotuXil: Collected Refractions: Reconfiguration in Progress. 2

DotuXil: Collected Refractions: Waterpad. 2

E8 Heterotic (Chris Simmons): Elements: Lightning. 4

E8 Heterotic (Chris Simmons): Ennead Dance. 1

E8 Heterotic (Chris Simmons): Glaukos Circuit. 3

E8 Heterotic (Chris Simmons): No Threes For You. 1

fesh: It's a long way down... do you want to jump?: VII. and all the harvest shall rot. 3.5

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

Gamelan Degung: Music from Bali: Hebat. 3

Gamelan Degung: Music from Bali: Kapinis. 4

Gamelan Degung: Music from Bali: Kebaya Bundang. 4

Gamelan Degung: Music from Bali: Kedah Kasaha. 5

Gamelan Degung: Music from Bali: Mojang Sumedang. 3

Gamelan Degung: Music from Bali: Sabilulungan. 5

Gamelan Degung: Music from Bali: Sangkala. 3

Greystar: Microtonal Nights: A Frail Path. 4

Greystar: Microtonal Nights: Acceptance. 5

Greystar: Microtonal Nights: Black Stream. 5

Greystar: Microtonal Nights: Colos Dread. 5

Greystar: Microtonal Nights: Dec Solemn. 5

Greystar: Microtonal Nights: Dim Cold. 5

Greystar: Microtonal Nights: Drenched. 5

Greystar: Microtonal Nights: Fades Again. 5

Greystar: Microtonal Nights: Fogged. 5

Greystar: Microtonal Nights: Fros. 4

Greystar: Microtonal Nights: Glimpse. 4

Greystar: Microtonal Nights: Handfuls of Orange. 5

Greystar: Microtonal Nights: Kinder Radiance. 5

Greystar: Microtonal Nights: Koohnihn. 5

Greystar: Microtonal Nights: Lost in Dreaming. 5

Greystar: Microtonal Nights: Reflection. 5

Greystar: Microtonal Nights: She Spun Merry. 5

Greystar: Microtonal Nights: Sky Pearl. 4

Greystar: Microtonal Nights: Swing Set. 4

Groundfault: A New Dusk. 1

Grégoire Blanc: A microtonal teatime jam. 3.5

Harrison: From Ancient Worlds. 2

Hovhaness: O Lord, Bless Thy Mountains. 1

Hunt: Equal-Tempered Keyboard: Prelude in 14et. 1

Johnston: String Quartet No. 4. 4

Jumble: Azure. 2

Jumble: Undiminished. 2.5

Klein: Duo for violin and viola in the Quartertone System. 1

LΛMPLIGHT: Caftaphata. 4.5

Nørgård: String Quartet No 5. 1

Nuorvala: Violin sonata. 2.5

Serafini: Chameleons in the Sun. 5

Serafini: Do Androids Dream of 18ed2?. 4

Sevish: Big Sway: Backtrace. 3.5

Sevish: Big Sway: Bare Layers. 3.5

Sevish: Big Sway: Door Into Fantasy. 3

Sevish: Big Sway: Oscid. 3

Sevish: Big Sway: Pwns. 3

Sevish: Big Sway: There Is Something Else. 2

Sevish: Big Sway: Who Knows. 3.5

Sevish: Big Sway: Zero Nothings. 3

Sevish: Bubble: Almighty Fractal. 2

Sevish: Bubble: Dream Up. 3

Sevish: Bubble: Fuschiamarine. 3

Sevish: Bubble: Plot Hole. 4

Sevish: Bubble: Some Things Must Reprise. 4

Sevish: Bubble: Some Things Must. 3

Sevish: Bubble: Starfish. 3

Sevish: Bubble: You Tell Me. 3

Sevish: Harmony Hacker: Ask Yourself. 3

Sevish: Harmony Hacker: Freathy. 2

Sevish: Harmony Hacker: Gleam. 5

Sevish: Harmony Hacker: Midnight Cascade. 5

Sevish: Harmony Hacker: Orbital. 4

Sevish: Harmony Hacker: Same Old. 3

Sevish: Harmony Hacker: So Thankful. 3

Sevish: Harmony Hacker: Vidya. 5

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

Sevish: Horixens: Baobaoshuijiaojiao. 5

Sevish: Horixens: Better Left Unanswered. 4

Sevish: Horixens: Come on a Jouney. 4

Sevish: Horixens: Horizons. 4

Sevish: Horixens: In the Zoon. 3

Sevish: Horixens: Outside. 3.5

Sevish: Horixens: Septilion Reptilians. 4

Sevish: Horixens: Streaming. 3

Sevish: Horixens: Unreality. 5

Sevish: Morphable: Everyone. 4

Sevish: Morphable: Launch. 3

Sevish: Morphable: Rain Pitted 99. 3.5

Sevish: Morphable: Rocko's Theme. 3

Sevish: Morphable: Saccades. 3

Sevish: Morphable: The Mad Mile. 2

Sevish: Morphable: Tritavium. 3

Sevish: Morphable: Yeah Groove. 2

Sevish: One With The Fractal: Automaton. 2

Sevish: One With The Fractal: Cosmic Playtime. 4.5

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: Durationplex. 3.5

Sevish: One With The Fractal: False Awakening. 2.5

Sevish: One With The Fractal: Fusilification. 2.5

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

Sevish: One With The Fractal: Soundways. 2.5

Sevish: One With The Fractal: The Dreamer. 3

Sevish: One With The Fractal: This Track. 3.5

Sevish: One With The Fractal: Triple Trouble. 2

Sevish: One With The Fractal: Wait What. 2.5

Sevish: Rhythm and Xen: Chattering Circuits. 3

Sevish: Rhythm and Xen: Desert Island Rain. 5

Sevish: Rhythm and Xen: Droplet. 5

Sevish: Rhythm and Xen: Earthling. 2

Sevish: Rhythm and Xen: Guano Sequence. 2

Sevish: Rhythm and Xen: It Is. 5

Sevish: Rhythm and Xen: Longwayaway People. 5

Sevish: Rhythm and Xen: Make a Dream. 2

Sevish: Rhythm and Xen: Moonopolis. 5

Sevish: Rhythm and Xen: Neon Tetra Elemental. 2

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

Sevish: Rhythm and Xen: Spellbound. 3

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

Sintel: Diversion in 34. 1

Sintel: Outer Gardens: Blue in Green. 4

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

Sintel: Outer Gardens: Gassy Webcap. 3

Sintel: Outer Gardens: Going OFF. 4

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

Sintel: Outer Gardens: Intro. 3

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

Sintel: Outer Gardens: Reed Sketches. 4

Sintel: Outer Gardens: Tiny Boy. 3.5

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

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

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

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: Hagfish. 3

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

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

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

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

SunScent: KYO/Punitive Life. 1.5

SunScent: Mimicry Symdrome. 1

Takemitsu: Bryce. 2

Tapeworm Saga: A quick quintet, music for 5 EWIs in 17edo. 1

Tapeworm Saga: Languor Study. 1

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

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

The Mercury Tree: Spidermilk: Brake for Genius. 3

The Mercury Tree: Spidermilk: Disremembered. 4

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

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

The Mercury Tree: Spidermilk: Interglacial. 2

The Mercury Tree: Spidermilk: Kept Man. 2

The Mercury Tree: Spidermilk: Superposition of Silhouettes. 4

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

The Mercury Tree: Spidermilk: Vestments. 2

Uncreative Name: Isles of Despair. 1.5

vivi mouse: fog. 3.5

Wrenharmonic: Larger Than The Oceans. 1

Xotla Music: Brusselator Sprouts. 3

Xotla Music: Equilibrate. 3.5

Xotla Music: Pico Metric: An Other. 2.5

Xotla Music: Pico Metric: Breeze of Frost. 2.5

Xotla Music: Pico Metric: Cretaceous Cosmos. 3.5

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

Xotla Music: Pico Metric: Deepest Pillars. 2.5

Xotla Music: Pico Metric: Light Pillars. 3.5

Xotla Music: Pico Metric: No Longer. 2.5

Xotla Music: Pico Metric: Surprise Me. 2

Xotla Music: Pico Metric: Whorl Winds. 2

Xotla Music: Rive. 1