Alien Dreamscapes in Just Intonation album is out now!

 

Now available on Bandcamp, Spotify, and all streaming services! Bonuses on Bandcamp include alien landscape coloring pages by Hannah Samano, and extensive liner notes with the story of the music of Aqualythia and the techniques used in each piece. Album art is by Kathleen Gordon. 

Listen here: https://whimsicallymacabre.bandcamp.com/album/alien-dreamscapes-in-just-intonation

Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/album/0681KQyC8WXXCFyfqbC7ky?si=PyLkYBdpTp6eP1n9rTENeA

Nowhere, a piece in 31 equal divisions of the octave

 Nowhere, music by Stacy Fahrion, inspired by a poem by Wayne A. Gilbert

Recorded on a Lumatone using Pianoteq.

Floating - Stacy Fahrion (7-limit subset of 11-limit tuning)

Floating uses Paul Johnson's 11-limit Janus lattice, but I didn't play any of the 11-limit notes. It's in E Phrygian/mostly E minor pentatonic, and the left hand pattern is 11 beats long throughout. The right hand begins with 2 against 3, then 3 against 4, then 4 against 5, and after a slightly contrasting section, returns the way it came. Thanks for listening to my tuning explorations, and thanks to my teachers, Jacob Adler and Michael Harrison, for being such lovely and inspiring humans and musicians. Recorded on Modartt Pianoteq Steinway D/Nord Piano.

Cold Moon - composed and performed by Stacy Fahrion

A Strange, Overpowering Feeling - Whimsically Macabre

A piece in 5/4 that uses different versions of only two chords, F and GbMaj7/Bb. It also has 2 different 3-note isomelodies over the repeating 5-note accompaniment pattern that eventually combine into an 8-note isomelody. The title is a phrase from The Listing Attic, by Edward Gorey. 

The Future Unremembered (acoustic version) - Whimsically Macabre

A Satie-esque piece posted in honor of Erik Satie, 

one of my favorite composers,

 born on May 17th, 1866. 

The Eternal Spectator - Whimsically Macabre

Falling Slowly - Whimsically Macabre