Sevish Music

Sevish - The Before Time (microtonal jungle techno) (2016x7)

Air date: May 20, 2016

The Before Time is a jazzy drum'n'bass tune with a little techno influence, written in Wendy Carlos' microtonal Alpha tuning. Alpha splits the perfect fifth into 9 equal parts. This means that the perfect fifth is totally pure but the octave is very badly tuned. In other words, this scale has no octaves! In Alpha tuning, the individual harmonies may sound recognisable, but melody gets warped and harmonic progression sounds quite strange. For this track, I worked with harmony based on stacked alternating major and minor thirds. Alpha supports this kind of harmony very well.