Music with in-between notes?

[BLUMENKOHL 1,068]

One of the great powers of synthetic sounds was supposed to be the ability to readily generate sounds across the full frequency spectrum, instead of the 12 discrete notes that we have. Well I haven't heard much of it!

Where's some good music that features notes in between the conventional notes?

[Dixon Hill 4,233]

Giacinto Scelsi.

[Sharkissimo 1,973]

There are many, many good composers out there using microtonality or tuning systems other than equal temperament, including TGP's favourite Jeremy Soule.

 

I'm a fan of Gerard Grisey. He's of a school of composers (mostly French) called spectralists. To put it simply, it's music derived or inspired by the overtone series. Some deconstruct sounds (i.e. a trombone played with a cup mute) using computers and Fast Fourier transforms, analyse the spectral content and use that date to create orchestral (or electronic) textures built up from these partials, which can then be mangled up. It's like an orchestral version additive synthesis, except rather being made up of sine waves, each component is already a complex waveform.

 

Remember, the further up the series you go, the more the frequencies deviate from equal temperament. And then there's gongs, cymbals and so on - these are made up of many resonant frequencies that inharmonic rather than harmonic. That is, they're no longer whole number multiples of the fundamental.

 

 

 

[Bespin 8,480]

Notes between notes... that's so Greek.

Look where it led them!

[Naïve Old Fart 9,509]

Not into notes, but the space between notes.