WXTCHCRXFT by Zhea Erose

see the music vid: https://youtu.be/a63V_fAPNaA

This piece was created in just intonation. This is an excerpt from my upcoming LP, Wxtchcrxft. This will be my 5th LP and it is purely microtonal. This 24 minute title track is the center piece to the album. It is divided into 3 parts but presented as a whole:
1. 0:00 Sonder
2. 7:48 Wxtchcrxft
3. 14:32 Forever

This piece contains the conceptual and thematic climax of the full album. The story is of a harmonic witch who turns herself into sound and can't find her way back -- ultimately accepting her fate in Forever.

Tuning:
This piece is further proof of concept illustrating my harmonic scale approach and "near equal just intonation" approach. I used two primary tunings throughout:

1) 29-tone neji, 19*11 novemdecimal-undecimal hybrid:
209:214:219:225:230:235:241:247:253:259:265:272:279:285:292:299:306:314:322:329:337:345:354:362:371:380:389:398:408:418
step - ratio - cents
0: 1/1 0.0
1: 214/209 40.9
2: 219/209 80.9
3: 225/209 127.7
4: 230/209 165.7
5: 235/209 202.9
6: 241/209 246.6
7: 13/11 289.2
8: 23/19 330.7
9: 259/209 371.3
10: 265/209 410.9
11: 272/209 456.1
12: 279/209 500.1
13: 15/11 536.9
14: 292/209 578.9
15: 299/209 619.9
16: 306/209 660.0
17: 314/209 704.7
18: 322/209 748.2
19: 329/209 785.5
20: 337/209 827.0
21: 345/209 867.7
22: 354/209 912.2
23: 362/209 950.9
24: 371/209 993.4
25: 20/11 1034.9
26: 389/209 1075.5
27: 398/209 1115.1
28: 408/209 1158.0
29: 2/1 1200.0

2) 8-tone, hypernaiadic /41 with a bunch of commas
41:47:53:60:61:71:80:91
0: 1/1 0.0
1: 47/41 236.4
2: 53/41 444.4
3: 60/41 659.2
4: 61/41 687.8
5: 71/41 950.6
6: 80/41 1157.2
7: 91/41 1380.2

3) Vocals:
The vocals are, of course, in just intonation but I accept organic tuning errors. When dealing with just intonation at this level, it's extremely difficult to sing pure. The resolution of control our vocal physiology offers quickly gets outpaced by resolution of harmonic possibility. Therefore, I do my best to sing the JI as I want, but accept error in the voice. I'm targeting several lower complexity intervals in the voice, tuning to the ensembles complex just intonation, and singing more complex JI targets not listed in either tuning.

Tracklist

1.	WXTCHCRXFT	24:24

Lyrics

Lyrics:
the lyrics are an impressionistic and reactionary impulse which spontaneously synthesizes my experience of the sound and the conceptual arc. There are lyrics but everyone will hear something different. The affect of the music, then, will dictate how each person hears WXTCHCRXFT.

Credits

released August 25, 2020
amelia huff - tuning, synthesis, composition, arrangement, mixing, mastering, artwork, and performance.

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