User:Eufalesio

I am Eufalesio, a music producer, classically trained in Spain (RCSMM, Madrid), and a former MSMTuber. I speak Spanish natively and I am fluent in English. (My Soundcloud page needs some retouching...)

Discord - eufalesio

Background

Just Intonation has irreversibly the way I hear music, and it has made my career inside my conservatory quite jarring; Classical repertoire (barring historicist interpretations) and the overwhelming majority of the contemporary classical music I was forced to listen, were wholly based in 12EDO, with 24EDO being the "utter maximum" of pitch deviation tolerable in these styles. Even 12edo was "too much" for some singers and players, who just barely hit the notes or had outrageously wide vibrato that made it impossible to tell what the note was in the first place.

My view on microtonality

I don't hate 12EDO, the so called "equal temperament", its fifths are incredibly precise for its small size, and I've come to the conclusion that it is a very practical temperament for 3-limit music. Its place in modern day music is well earned, but I think that most people don't take full advantage of 12EDO, for example, its 17 and 19 harmonics, which are very well tuned (by virtue of being a "pythagorean tuning").

My pet peeve with 12EDO is that while it is the lowest EDO which can reliably be used for 5-limit (NOT 7-limit), I've grown to hear its approximations of them as too crude. It's a pythagorean tuning, and I've become tired of people trying to masquerade as meantone. 72EDO offers a vastly better harmonic approximation while being very easy to build in a DAW.

EDOs and temperaments serve a practical purpose, achieving maximum JI accuracy whilst offering minimum complexity, ease of conceptualization, and practicality. Having composed many pieces for diverse ensembles (and an opera, which I have yet to upload...), I reached the conclusion that the best way to approach microtonality, at least the kind that approaches JI, is to use electronics. Using acoustic instruments or raw interpretative skill requires a level of finesse and customization of building to which I have not the access to, neither on musicians or instrument luthiering.

Interests

Music

My main drive in music is expanding tonality with higher-limit JI: at the very least in the 5- or 7-limit, and at the very most in the 29- limit. My favorite subgroup is the 2.3.5.7.11.13.19 See User:Eufalesio/Harmonic tiers for my analysis of primes.

My fav edos are thusly 12, 19, 22, 31, 53, 72, 94, 159, 217, 311.

The biggest EDOs I would compose in are 217 and 311, since they offer a high quality representation of the 31-limit. I will not use EDOs any higher than 311 because it's already a god-tier EDO, any higher and the step size is way too small to be faithfully percieved. The reason why I would use an edo instead of JI+fudging is if I want to have an entire pitch gamut.

The next EDO that achieves a similar level of consistency is 1600EDO, which is almost consistent to the 45-odd-limit, missing 50/39 and 39/25, but those intervals can be easily fudged into 9/7 and 14/9. It and 2460edo are the biggest edos I would probably use

My fav scales are 5L 2s (Pyth-like or Meantone-like), Pyth-like 5L 7s, Schismic-like 12L 5s, Slendric-like 5L 6s.

Big fan of other unequal JI scales such as Nicetone, or 24:26:28:30:32:36:39:42:45:48, which I dub the "harmonic bipentachord"

! harbipenchord13.scl
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24:26:28:30:32:36:39:42:45:48 made into a scale, "harmonic bipentachord"
9
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13/12
7/6
5/4
4/3
3/2
13/8
7/4
15/8
2/1

And the Carlos harmonic scale. My approach to these JI scales is either fudging or tempering with EDOs.

Theory

Interested in naming stuff and knowing what we're talking about with some semblance of certainty. In terms of compositional theory, I believe that the best approach to music is to follow the harmonic series as closely as possible, using low complexity otonality, harmonic segments melodically, and low-prime-limit expanded tonality.

I do not believe that the harmonic series and the subharmonic series are mirror versions of each other. They are only in pitch space, but in any real musical context, their functions are vastly different. Harmonics play inside harmony, subharmonics define harmony. Since subharmonics define harmony, concatenating many subharmonics leads to an extremely numerically complex chord with a huge denominator. Bad. Melodically, subharmonics are incredibly potent, but for different reasons than harmonics.

Ultimately I care more about praxis than about theory, my theory of theory being that it should be as descriptive, simple and intuitive as possible or be ultimately derived from praxis entirely, and all the thinking power should go to the actual music making. Theories are still important because the mental framework with which one makes music can, and does change, and learning about new ways to look at the same concepts is an important skill as an artist, I'd say.

Worldbuilding

I have a hobbyist worldbuilding project on a distant world called Iekyaa, with a heavy dose of speculative evolution, althistory, linguistics, conlanging, OCs, speculative metaphysics, and magic. Overall a weird mix of Avatar the Last Airbender and My Hero Academia, with some heavy specevo and worldbuilding, among other references I may not speak of here.

I have also developed a general music notation for this world but I have yet to upload it.

Proceed with caution. (may contain NSFW)

Articles

• User:Eufalesio/How to build edos in DAWs
• User:Eufalesio/532zpi
• User:Eufalesio/Eufa's JI voicing notation
• User:Eufalesio/Punctional Just System (joke)
• User:Eufalesio/PLIN (my way of thinking about intervals, needs some more work)
• User:Eufalesio/Moture's Extended Functional Just System (bad translation of someone's article)
• User:Eufalesio/Proposal to the Functional Just System
• User:Eufalesio/Enumeration (also edited by Kite Giedraitis, deprecated article, see EFR)
• User:Eufalesio/Fifth scale tree (proposal)
• User:Eufalesio/Holopyth and Hemipyth (systematic nomenclature for all of Hemipyth)
• User:Eufalesio/Mappings_of_edos
• User:Eufalesio/EDO_impressions
• User:Eufalesio/Table of Prime generator MOSes

The list will be expanded further as more articles are published.