V.A. - 7 Seconds Long Compilation Vol. 3

Well, second volume was really fun, but next one will be even MORE fun!

You can now submit up to 10 songs per alias, there is no limit for how many aliases you can use. (even madeup alias exclusively for this compilation.)

The compilation will be digitally published in the 5th November 2026 at https://nai64.bandcamp.com

Submit here: https://forms.gle/eXCjfY1bJWM1DWHP8

All the information are in forms.

The sounds people often mention being a reversed distorted guitar is actually a sitar, or maybe a veena or a rabab. After research, TeddyLoid and Giga mentioned in an interview that it was inspired by Indian culture and movies from Bollywood, which Giga said to be a big fan of.

Not only that, TeddyLoid said Giga is great at playing the sitar and other string instruments, which was a pleasent surprise.

So that said, considering these instruments are all inherently xenharmonic, could someone with a better ear than me confirm it? It'd be very interesting to know such a big song uses concepts that, in the west, are usually reserved to bands like King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard.

It's obvious the use of 'meends' in the melody, which is another thing that points me to it being xenharmonic.

Really been enjoying exploring the two octave structures that odd divisions of the 4th harmonic bring.

[1/1 3/2 '5/4]

[`11/8 4/3 5/3 '5/4]

[1/1 3/2 '5/4]

[`11/8 4/3 5/3 '5/4]

[1/1 3/2 15/8 '5/4]

[`3/2 16/11 16/9 '4/3]

[`11/8 4/3 5/3 '5/4]

[`4/3 8/7 8/5 '5/4]

The 2 diagrams are 2 views of the same layout.

Worst case error of any white ratio is 7.2 cents.

Frequency of a button is determined by:

`f=c0*c1^x*c2^y`

where:

c0=arbitrary

c1=1.170626

c2=1.095445

x and y are not perpendicular but aligned to the hexagonal lattice like this italic L:

y

*L*x

c1 and c2 were chosen to meet the following goals:

Include every frequency ratio from 1/2 to 2/1 which contains only integers less than 12.

Pack them into the smallest possible circle without conflating any.

I wrote a search program to find it.

The logarithmic spacing in the top diagram is a consequence of the formula.

In the top diagram, you can see 2 "axes" of false equivalences:

10/11 = 11/12

14/15 = 15/16

13 is missing, it would be exactly between 2 buttons or far away.

If diagram 1 is continued based on the location of primes, the first "collision" is 98=99.

Its an easy layout to remember because 5678 is in a symmetric shape that fingers naturally rest in.

I'm sure this is just repeating someone else's work (whose?)

Fun backstory:
My roommate (filmmaker) went on a residency in the US, and got to know someone (musician) who he said I would get along with quite well.

After the residency, my roommate decided to stay for a bit more, and offered his room to this new friend.
I went to the train station to pick him up, and learned that he is also a composer, focusing on microtonality.

As we were showing each other different applications of microtonality from our respective backgrounds, he noticed a similarity between one of the fusion maqams I was obsessed with at the time and a low limit version of just intonation he had been utilizing.

This track was the result of this sweet interaction!

https://youtu.be/zqtJitdFARI?is=f0MjrBDMbJYZmDIL

Hi trombonists,

I’m Mike. I’m a trombonist, teacher, and someone who’s spent a lot of time trying to solve very specific practice problems.

I play with Alarm Will Sound and teach at Lawrence University.

Much of my playing life has been spent practicing and living in music that’s rhythmically and intonationally… unforgiving. Which is great, but it exposes pretty quickly where practice tools fall short.

So over the past year, I’ve been building something called FlowFrame.

It’s a web app built around how people actually practice:

• A programmable metronome that handles tempo changes, odd meters, tuplets, metric modulation

• Drones and pitch tools for intonation work

• Practice planning + tracking (what you actually did, not what you meant to do)

• Score/PDF integration and teacher/student sharing tools

The idea is simple: most tools work fine until things get even a little complicated. Then you’re either hacking around limitations or abandoning the tool entirely.

I’m not trying to pitch this as some kind of solution to practicing... there isn’t one. Practice is still hard. But better tools can make it easier to stay focused on the part that matters.

If anyone’s interested in checking it out and giving feedback (what’s useful, what’s confusing, what you wish it did) I’d really appreciate it.

👉 https://flowframe.app

Thanks for reading,

— Mike

I got tired of clicking posts to discover music so I made an app that autoplays them like a Spotify radio. Thought you might like it.

scroll.fm/r/microtonal

For screen-lock playback: Android | iPhone

For updates visit r/scrollfm

I've been working on designs for 3D printed frets for a while now, and realized I never posted this demo here. The bass is tuned like KGLW's and has frets in the sam positions.