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“DODECATONAL MUSIC” is the term Michael W. Dean from BipTunia coined to mean “12-tone equal temperament music, as opposed to microtonal music.” The Dodeca- prefix is from the Greek cardinal number prefix series for “12”:     It is a more exact and elegant, yet also simple, solution than saying “non-microtonal music.” Especially since the…

This is Fine cut 6 Music, Words, voice: Michael W. Dean https://biptunia.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/Speaking_of_BOC.mp3 Thoughts on this, decades later: It wasn’t cool of me to do this, and it could have gotten us kicked out of the studio. We were recording on “spec” time donated by an assistant at the studio. It was studio time that wasn’t…

(this is an archive of the article I originally wrote for the site Produce Like A Pro) Welcome to this Tutorial Tuesdays article by Michael W. Dean, synth player in BipTunia. Author of $30 Music School. PRO TIP: I’d recommend that while you read this article, you listen to this Microtonal Playlist on Spotify. It…

Music and words: Michael W. Dean. Voice: Phil Wormuth https://biptunia.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/Speech_Free.mp3 So, this is the 4th song recorded so far for our next album, “Odd Music for Weird People.” Those four songs total amount to 49 kick-butt weird-ass minutes. lol. I’m tempted to call that the album. But I might wait until we have another long…

Music: Michael W. Dean. Words and voice: Phil Wormuth. Microtonal tuning: 8 EDO Microtonal Rhodes is EP-MK1. Also includes some kitchen percussion put through my VST, Simple Microtonal Sampler. Also uses my VST Microtonal Poly Worms. And some other things. LISTEN: https://biptunia.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/Memories_Inserted.mp3 LYRICS: These splendidly disturbing walls a tribute to early situational awareness. Re-instituted backstories……

Words, music, voice: Michael W. Dean https://biptunia.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/Dance_of_the_Hedgehog-lmc.mp3 Microtonal tuning: 12-79mos159et on everything except the guitar, vocoder, and drums, which are all 12edo (not microtonal). This song uses a bunch of samples I made of kitchen pots and pans played with drum sticks. LYRICS: Hedgehog Hedgehog Dance of the Hedgehog Dance of the Hedgehog Dance of…

Music and words and voice: Michael W. Dean Words and voice: Phil Wormuth https://biptunia.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/Art-Live-Forever.mp3 Microtonal  tunings used: 13-22, 01-Equal (and 12 edo) LYRICS: …Back when people could form complete sentences… …The batwalk up the side of the building, even the batwalk was intelligent repartee. It’s really devolved today, I don’t know what’s going on. It…

Music: Michael W. Dean Words and voice: Phil Wormuth microtonal tunings used: 5 TET, 25 TET https://biptunia.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/Beautiful_Justify_Brick_Gridlock.mp3 LYRICS: Rush Shook Cut-up Rush shook into extract talk lab crush on Friday lebel heath gathering friendship kayak jail catch gap luck Jersey medical jail hell outbid Dell neuro help brush hazel heads-up jail paint trap yeah! Hairy…

Listen: https://biptunia.com/MP3s/Al-12-MP3s/7-Zesster_Fish.mp3 Our guitar tech Jay says that “Zesster Glockenspiel Boogadigga Fish Management” would be a great cat name.   “Zesster Mix” is the name of the microtonal scale used here. (“Harmonic six-star Zesster groups A B and C mixed from Fokker” 1 16 261.62558 274.706848 279.067261 293.02063 299. 313.950684 334.880737 348.834076 358.8 366.275787 392.438354…

https://biptunia.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/Torpedos_and_Eggs.mp3 Music: Michael W. Dean Words and voice: Phil Wormuth Microtonal tunings used: 5 TET, HD4 10-40, Japanese Hirajoshi LYRICS: FidFud Torpedoes and Eggs Ed unraveled – it was Lorraine, again. Living in brick gridlock With tidy grouting; one day she was caught paddle boarding in the fountain in a beautiful kimono with blood hems…