HEHEHE I AM A SUPAHSTAR SAGAMembers of the Xenharmonic Alliance Discord Server had five weeks to make an EP, as part of the Server vs Server competition with other music servers. I led the team for this EP and worked on three tracks, mainly Slow Push Out Of Bounds.
Xenharmonic Alliance Discord - Deleted User EP (Server vs Server)HEHEHE I AM A SUPAHSTAR SAGA2022-05-02 | Members of the Xenharmonic Alliance Discord Server had five weeks to make an EP, as part of the Server vs Server competition with other music servers. I led the team for this EP and worked on three tracks, mainly Slow Push Out Of Bounds.
Drum samples from DrumGizmo used under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. Thanks to sintel for daxophone samples.
0:00 Slow Push Out Of Bounds 2:15 Mirage Haze 3:52 Monsters Under Your Head 6:47 Through the Ruins 10:55 Into Their FractalCeleste Strawberry Jam - Green Star Lake (microtonal VGM)HEHEHE I AM A SUPAHSTAR SAGA2023-02-17 | The Strawberry Jam mod for Celeste came out today! It's a huge collab with over 100 levels. I made this track in 2021 for the map Ethereal Ascension. The tuning is 26edo, with bars 21-28 and 43-50 using entirely 13edo.
#microtonal #vgm #celesteA Thousand Miles Away - 17edo cover (Happy Birthday, Sticker Star!)HEHEHE I AM A SUPAHSTAR SAGA2022-11-12 | Yesterday was the 10th anniversary of Paper Mario: Sticker Star, so here's a cover of one of my favorite tracks.
#17edo #microtonal #xenharmonic10 xen musicians cover Tostarena RuinsHEHEHE I AM A SUPAHSTAR SAGA2022-09-16 | In a project organized on the Xen Discord (discord.com/invite/FSF5JFT) by Userminusone, me and nine other musicians each made a different microtonal version of Tostarena Ruins from Super Mario Odyssey.
0:00 Adam Freese 1:59 Frédéric Gagné 3:39 HEHEHE I AM A SUPAHSTAR SAGA 5:53 Jama 7:41 Lumi 10:36 Mundoworld 13:27 Phlub 16:44 Sevish 18:37 Userminusone 20:59 WrenharmonicWe dont remember the time loopHEHEHE I AM A SUPAHSTAR SAGA2022-07-27 | Outer Wilds is a really good game
Original track by David Wise Video by me, background photo by Adam Freese
0:00 Adam Freese 3:41 HEHEHE I AM A SUPAHSTAR SAGA 7:09 Ian Means 11:52 Phlubububububub 15:02 Richie (feat. Sheers) 19:13 Stephen Weigel 22:48 Vincenzo SicurellaI made Wordle but XenHEHEHE I AM A SUPAHSTAR SAGA2022-02-23 | kheptagon.github.io/xenleTen one-minute tracks from Xen Discord (SvS x LM event)HEHEHE I AM A SUPAHSTAR SAGA2022-01-11 | Xenharmonic Alliance Discord (discord.gg/FSF5JFT) entered a tournament hosted by Server vs Server and Lucid Monday. Each server had to gather a team of ten people to produce ten one-minute tracks. We lost Round 1, so this is all we made for the event.
0:00 16Neji Sketch 1:00 Chewing Rocks on Purpose 1:54 Chlorine Man 2:49 Coffee 3:48 Deliberation 4:51 Jetlag 5:48 Lasers 6:45 qwah 7:46 Suling Call at the Gates 8:44 Vs. Though GuyMr. Incredible becoming uncanny - Xen WikiHEHEHE I AM A SUPAHSTAR SAGA2022-01-02 | template credit youtube.com/watch?v=ntG1oRHRfiQOne-Hour Challenges 2021 (microtonal music)HEHEHE I AM A SUPAHSTAR SAGA2021-12-31 | This is a collection of the one-hour challenges I did in 2021. It's a challenge organized on the Ongaku Concept Discord server where people make a track in about one hour, based on an image prompt.
Tunings: Boat 12edo Space 24edo Cat 12edo City 19edo Apartment in the Sky 10edo Forest 12edo Campfire 17edo Day Kitty Night Kitty 14edo Moon 13edo Crumbling Cave 17edo Dry Trees 17edo Stone 26edo
0:00 Boat 1:10 Space 2:08 Cat 3:09 City 4:30 Apartment in the Sky 6:09 Forest 7:36 Campfire 8:55 Day Kitty Night Kitty 9:39 Moon 10:51 Crumbling Cave 11:46 Dry Trees 13:16 StoneApartment in the Sky (10edo music in Diamond-mos notation)HEHEHE I AM A SUPAHSTAR SAGA2021-08-06 | This is a short track I made in March, made in one hour for a challenge on the Ongaku Concept Discord. I'm uploading it now to showcase a microtonal notation system I've been working on for the last few months.
In diamond-mos notation, the naturals on the staff represent a specific MOS scale chosen by the composer. The diamonds mark octaves on the staff, and the boxes on barlines mark the scale steps. The notation system includes mos-specific accidentals. You can learn about how to read and write diamond-mos notation here: https://en.xen.wiki/w/Diamond-mos_notation
Sheet music PDF: drive.google.com/drive/folders/1N8J1Y1EA3V8JnmOeQq7Bb2bnVkEwKLnFSTOP POSTING ABOUT XENHEHEHE I AM A SUPAHSTAR SAGA2021-07-15 | new music is coming soon-ishSuper Mario Galaxy swimming launch glitchHEHEHE I AM A SUPAHSTAR SAGA2021-04-18 | I captured this glitch on the switch version. I wasn't able to reproduce it. I'm not sure if it's known.Xenharmonic Alliance Discord - Gone Too Deep EP (Server vs Server)HEHEHE I AM A SUPAHSTAR SAGA2021-03-15 | Members of the Xenharmonic Alliance Discord Server had four weeks to make an EP, as part of the Server vs Server competition with other music servers. I led the team for this EP and worked on two tracks, mainly Fog of Time.
0:00 Falling Down My Mind 3:06 Fog of Time 6:56 Liminal City Escalators 10:08 Neuron Web 13:22 RespiteOngaku Concept Collective - Surround EP (Server vs. Server)HEHEHE I AM A SUPAHSTAR SAGA2020-08-08 | Members of the Ongaku Concept Discord server had three weeks to compose and produce this EP as part of the Server vs. Server competition. I worked on the track "Shattering Mind", writing most of the basslines and melodies.
Every morning used to be so fine and now i only have one thing on my mind, yeah. (One thing on my mind) Take a shower, get ready to go, turn off the radio it's time to start the show, nah. (Something feels wrong in here)
want to get away from what's due and feel ok, again. (I don't wanna go anymore) Every time my alarm rings i feel a thousand bee stings. (I want to stay in bed forever)
It is so hard to be astray. Nothing on my mind, i feel grey. Nothing flows in my heart but this rain, time and time again.
It is so hard to be astray. Nothing on my mind, i feel grey. Nothing flows in my heart but this rain, time and time again.
Get out of my head. You make me lose my tempo. Want to accelerate I don't understand, i need to get out of my bed. Stand up I close my eyes instead Under my covers Will it be over? Why is there
Mr. sandman under my bed? He turned my eyes red. I am pinned down, no one around. That's when I said:
It is so hard to be astray. Nothing on my mind, i feel grey. Nothing flows in my heart but this rain, time and time again.
Tumbling, tumbling down Tumbling, tumbling down down down Tumbling, tumbling down Tumbling, tumbling down down down
It is so hard to be astray. Nothing on my mind, i feel grey. Nothing flows in my heart but this rain, time and time again.
Title: (0:00) Broken Pillow: (0:08) Mirrors: (3:43) Shattering Mind: (7:47) Moonlight: (11:45)Channel Update/Talk 2020HEHEHE I AM A SUPAHSTAR SAGA2020-01-02 | asmr timeRealtuned - Vs. Susie (15-TET microtonal cover)HEHEHE I AM A SUPAHSTAR SAGA2019-11-01 | Happy (late) birthday to Deltarune Chapter 1!
I went in a different direction with this cover, and I think it turned out pretty well. The original track is short and simple, but still quite harmonically interesting. That gave me a lot of room to expand it and add new elements.
15-TET is very different from what I'm used to. The fifths are very sharp (720 cents), but the thirds are fairly good (320 and 400 cents). Those sharp intervals have an edge that I think works really well for this piece. It's also a good contrast to the flatness of 19-TET.
15 factors into 3 and 5, so there are two symmetries available. The 5-symmetry gives you the equipentatonic scale, which is a very nice sound. You also get the ten-tone Blackwood scale (2121212121), which has five major chords and five minor chords. I didn't use these scales much structurally, but they're scattered around the new melodic material.
The 3-symmetry let me do a major third cycle in the later part of the piece. The chords are Am - C7 - Fm - Ab7/G#7 - C#m - E7, similar to the Coltrane changes with minor chords in place of maj7 chords. I had some fun writing a quick solo over the progression.
These symmetries are another contrast with 19-TET, which has no symmetries. I enjoyed working in 15, so I may look into other similar tunings in the future.
This cover is in 69-cent non-octave tuning. Though I thought of this tuning system as a joke, there are plenty of cool things about it. The fifth is okay at 690 cents, and the major and minor tenths are very nice. There are also two interesting tritones at 552 cents (close to 11:8) and 621 cents (close to 10:7). However, the thirds are very far from 5-limit just thirds. The 3:1 is very far off, which let me do something cool. At bar 79, the b9 of the first V chord becomes the 5th of the second V chord a step higher. It's a really interesting sound which may be usable in other tunings.
The melody of the original track leans heavily on the b3, so I put the tonic (the only one I have) in the bass and the b3 in the melody at a minor 10th from that. The melody mostly came through intact, though I had to change some of the notes to avoid detuned octaves. It helped that the whole step in this tuning is quite good at 207 cents. Since a whole step is three small steps in this tuning, I was able to use some of the voice leading I know from 19-TET.
The countermelody I came up with is just the bassline shifted over an 8th note, with the notes changed to fit the harmony. It was harder to find the right notes than I thought it would be, since notes get "taken" by the other parts without octave equivalence.
Thanks to KnightOfGames for the drum stem.Former World Record - Celeste 7D (custom map) in 36:06HEHEHE I AM A SUPAHSTAR SAGA2019-05-10 | My best run of Nameguy's new 7D. A great early game, a bad 2000M, and an incredible 3000M. I was struggling for sub 40 for days, but this suddenly beat that by nearly four minutes.
This speedrun is uniquely difficult because large time losses can appear anywhere in the run. Dying loses so much time that it's not so much a speedrun as it is a low deaths run. The longest screens take 90 seconds to beat.Penumbra - 19-TET music (8bmt Discord challenge)HEHEHE I AM A SUPAHSTAR SAGA2019-04-26 | The 8-bit Music Theory Discord server had a challenge recently where users were split into two teams. The dark team had the requirement that, within each measure, each melody line must have more descending leaps than ascending leaps. I was only able to submit a WIP for the actual challenge, but I'm posting the finished-ish version here.
I wrote this track entirely in the 14141413 octatonic scale, similar to the half-whole diminished scale in 12-TET. This 19-TET scale is neither symmetrical nor an MOS, but it is made by stacking minor thirds above the root. If you stack one fewer minor third, you get the MOS 1414144.
The 4-out-of-19 intervals, semifourths, are enharmonic to augmented seconds in 19-TET. These big gaps remind you of scales such as harmonic minor, but they're in a context where you would expect smaller steps. I like the feel this brings to the scale. The scale's asymmetry is also interesting, which I play with by moving the ostinato around by minor thirds.
The piece starts in Bb with 12-TET-like harmony. I slowly introduce more xenharmonic elements, culminating in an Enneatonic scale modulation from Bb to G#. After spending a minute in G# Enneatonic, I use a minor third cycle drift to modulate back to Bb.
I didn't specifically intend for this piece to be a collection of ideas from Exploring 19-TET, but since those were the devices I knew about and was thinking about, it kind of turned out that way. You should be able to spot a lot of the things I talked about it those videos.
I did not use assist mode or edit the video.Exploring 19-TET Part 2: IntervalsHEHEHE I AM A SUPAHSTAR SAGA2018-08-04 | Time to go over the relationships between notes!Exploring 19-TET Part 1: IntroductionHEHEHE I AM A SUPAHSTAR SAGA2018-07-28 | I'm starting a quick series about 19-tone equal temperament. I hope you find it interesting.How chords sound in just intonation, 12-TET, and 19-TETHEHEHE I AM A SUPAHSTAR SAGA2018-07-02 | I used sine waves to accentuate the differences. It seems that 19-TET beats differently from 12-TET is a way that's hard to quantify.Mother 3 - Gentle Rain in 19-TET (Microtonal)HEHEHE I AM A SUPAHSTAR SAGA2018-06-15 | A demonstration of 19-tone equal temperament.Why Californias Musical Road Sounds ViciousHEHEHE I AM A SUPAHSTAR SAGA2018-05-09 | In Oakland, California, there's a musical road. When you drive over it, it plays the William Tell Overture. Unfortunately, it's out of tune. Here's why.