Hear Between The Lines

Welcome to our first episode of 'Hear Between The Lines', kicking off a triology focusing on microtonal modulations. First off: Pivot Tone Modulations. Using notes as anchorpoints to modulate around is quite an old phenomenon, but it can also be really useful when working with much smaller intervals.

Today's topic: Contrary motion! A harmonisation tool dating back centuries. But viewed through a microtonal lens, it opens up mostly unchartered realms of possibilities!

In our third episode of 'Hear Between The Lines' - our series about microtonal harmony and voice-leading - we focus on dividing intervals into ever smaller steps, and how to harmonise the results.

In the past few episodes we have used quite a lot of jargon that some of you might not yet be familiar with, so today, let's dive into the world of Microtonal Lingo!

There are a lot of meme-y microtonal cover songs. However, we wanted to unleash the microtonal potential slumbering within the world of popular music and try to reharmonise a tune and make it sound even more like itself, if you know what we mean… In this episode we ask ourselves what it would sound like if Stevie Wonder was a microtonal composer! We love his music and compositional style and it was huge amounts of fun to pretend that this was a 31-TET composition. So here’s what we came up with: En-joy Overjoyed!