With regard to microtonal past and present practices it is important to mention the harmonic function of notational systems, time representation, and microtonal function. As music is like a language, with tonal systems and microtonal inflections that can impart meaning (semiotics, semantics and context), its artifacts are important in cultural, traditional and practical aspects of music making, thinking, and expression. Musical thought may include timbral information as well as pitch, duration and ornamental embellishment which may be linked to socio-cultural heritability, where music and other types of passed knowledge are linked and may involve microtonal information.
- Geoff Geer (Anglia Ruskin University, 2014)
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released October 9, 2022
All sounds created with microtonal modular synthesizer use scales of :
"Gamelan salunding" from Bali (Track I)
"Degung sejati" from West Java (Track II)
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