Orgone

This page is about the regular temperament. For the scale structure sometimes associated with it, see 4L 3s.

Orgone is the 2.7.11 subgroup temperament generated by a minor or supraminor third which can be identified by a tempered 77/64 such that two of them make a tempered 16/11 and three of them make a tempered 7/4. The orgone temperament is notable for its lack of well-tuned perfect fifths, particularly for the sharper tunings of orgone temperament. If using a flatter generator, there is a fifth but still at the relatively high complexity of 9 generators down (see also superkleismic).

A related temperament is ultrakleismic in the 2.7.17 subgroup, in which the generator is instead identified with the simpler 17/14, by tempering out 4913/4802. Ork temperament merges these two. These favor sharper generators so can be viewed even more as no-fifth systems.

For technical data, see Orgonia #Orgone.

Gallery

11EDO Orgone smitonic cheat sheet using modified diatonic notation (G#=A, Ab=G), and smitonic interval names.

Music

City of the Asleep

• An Amputated Elliptic Knob of the Cryptocurve Regenerates (2019) – 14-piece album, all in orgone of various tunings

groundfault

• Ghost Bridge (2020) – in 11edo tuning

Alexandru Ianu

• Sylvian Moon Dance (2021) (sheet music) – in 11edo tuning