User:Unque
I am Uncreative Name, or Unque - I'm a music theorist, composer, mathematician, worldbuilder, and linguist. Members of the Xenharmonic Alliance Discord might know me as one of the most vocal proponents of inharmonic tunings or interpretations, notably including advocacy for 15-EDO and its supersets. Or perhaps more regrettably as the guy who made Dhembrwood.
I learned of the Arabic Maqamat several years ago when I was studying non-Western music traditions, and I was especially intrigued by the presence of the neutral intervals in Jins Rast and other scales. This kickstarted a weird rabbit hole where I learned about the harmonic series, Just Intonation, and various Equal Divisions of the [your name here].
My favorite xen EDOs are 15, 17, and 22; I also like experimenting with nonoctave tunings (24edt is a favorite of mine), and I use pure JI from time to time. My favorite abstract temperaments include Porcupine, Sohajira, Archy, Mavila, Squares, Orwell, Sensi, and anything with semifourths.
Music
Here are some of the pieces I've written:
- Spring (26-EDO): https://youtu.be/OjW8dgooG9Q_
- Isles of Despair (15-EDO): https://youtu.be/T49aXRutQxE
- Summer (17-EDO): https://youtu.be/UthDbDI31IY
- Nachtlandian Somersault (19-EDO): https://youtu.be/XZ3zB3EDKOM
- Bonetrousle Remix (22-EDO): https://youtu.be/wgyie6m7f5g
- Random Encounter Type Beat (2.3.7 JI): https://youtu.be/0OkCl2yfgBo
- Methane Lamentation (31-EDO): https://youtu.be/CBmYRoej2yQ
Contributions
Here are some of the contributions I've made to theory here on the wiki:
- A convention for describing 15-EDO Chords
- Dhembrwood Temperament
- Redeye Scale
- A study on Imaginary Harmonics
- Chord Interlace Scales
- The Octaphore comma and its related temperaments (I am sadly responsible for that name too)
- A naming convention for MV3 ternary scales (which is currently undergoing serious reconstruction)
- A system of nineteen functions to describe xenmelody
- A study on tuning theory as applied to Barbershop music
I confine many of my pages to my user space to contain idiosyncrasies, jokes, and other ideas that I don't believe deserve to be put on the main wiki space.
Worldbuilding Projects
I've also used my user space as a place to document the music theory associated with several of my worldbuilding projects:
- The "Gense" traditions, which use 17-EDO tetrachords
- The "Plagal" traditions, which use 22-EDO MOS scales
Just like the theory pages, these worldbuilding pages are not intended to enter the main wiki space, for obvious reasons.