“FreakBone 9000” – Album 81 by BipTunia. LISTEN FREE. 10 new Microtonal songs

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RUN TIME: 73 Minutes.
RELEASE DATE: May 3, 2023

FreakBone 9000 | BipTunia (bandcamp.com)
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All instruments, songs, production, mastering, and cover art: Michael W. Dean.

Made with two free VST synths made by the author, FreakBone 9000, and Microtone 5000, with no other instruments except drum programs.

TRACK LIST:

1. 1. Zesster C and Macedonian Bagpipe Overture
   2. DrumBox 220BPM 15-27 Gram-and-17TET
   3. The Werckmeister 3 in Concert
   4. FreakBone-9000 Demo 1
   5. 2 TET Tritones All the Way Down
   6. Zesty FreakBone Demo 2
   7. 11 ED3 Jump for Jump
   8. 4 EDO 20 EDO 960BMP Jaunty
   9. Eagle53 Phryg Penta Data Transmission
   10. Zesty FreakBone Improv in Six Microtonal Tunings

All songs are microtonal / micronal / xenharmonic

Most of the microtonal scales used are named in the song titles. The three songs with “FreakBone” in the title have multiple tunings. All three of them have zesster_c (Harmonic six-star, group C on Eb, from Fokker
8) as chimes all the way through. But each of the three has a succession of other tunings over that. They are;

Microtonal tunings in FreakBone-9000 Demo 1:

• kurzweil_arab (Kurzweil Emperical Arabic)
• lambdoma _prim (Prime Lambdoma)
• mohajira-to-slendro (From Mohajira to Aeolian and Slendros)
• ptolemy_diat5 (Sterea lyra, Dorian, comb. of 2 Tonic Diatonic 4chords, also Archytas’ diatonic 7)
• rast pentachord 5-limit (Rast pentachord 600:675:744:800:900)

Microtonal tunings in Zesty FreakBone Demo 2:

• Eagle53 (Better tuned 12 TET, 12 note subset of 53EDO)
• Olympos (Scale of ancient Greek flutist Olympos, 6th century BC, as reported by Partch)
• lucy01and07tuned0b5s (lucy01 and 07 tuned 0b5s)
• pipedum_9e (21/20, 27/25, 128/125)Japanese Hirajoshi (Japanese pentatonic koto scale, theoretical. Helmholz/Ellis p.519)

zesster_c comes in as chime sounds, at 1:04

Microtonal tunings in Zesty FreakBone Improv in Six Microtonal Tunings:

• parrot (jamesbond-bipelog-decimal-injera 14c wakalix)
• Eagle53 (Better tuned 12 TET, 12 note subset of 53EDO)
• Arabic
• Notched Cube (Otonal tetrads sharing a note with the root tetrad, a notched chord cube)
• Macedonian Bagpipe

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