Zhenlige

The author of XenNote, a game mod for playing xenharmonic music in Minecraft.

I am more a theorist than a musician. My motivation of studying xen is acturally due to my interest in math.

When acturally work with xen music, I only use softwares, since I cannot play any instruments well — even 12edo ones. When working with different timbres, I feel that consonance and dissonance differs. Complex JI intervals (e.g. 81/64) are more consonant than tempered simple intervals (e.g. a meantone fifth) for synthetic waves (specifically the semisine wave in Scale Workshop), but vise versa for real instrument samples.

Bilibili

Personal terminology definitions

Microtonal: something using finer-than-12edo tunings
Xenharmonic: something that cannot be interpreted as 5-limit 12et without severe damage

Interval naming (thirds as an example)


septimal minor	7/6
(diatonic) minor	32/27
classical minor	6/5
neutral	sqrt(3/2)
classical major	5/4
(diatonic) major	81/64
septimal major	9/7

Useful links

Defactoring algorithms