Studies in Equal Temperaments-19, 13, 31, 46 EDO
Matin Peymani
This album emerges from a sustained listening-based exploration of equal divisions of the octave, treating tuning systems not as theoretical frameworks but as spatial conditions for sound. Focusing on the 19-, 13-, 31-, and 46-EDO systems, the work approaches pitch organization as a navigable field rather than a hierarchical or melodic structure. Electronic sound serves as the primary medium through which movement, contour, and texture are articulated. Rather than illustrating tuning systems explicitly, the album invites the listener to experience the perceptual spaces these systems generate. Intervals are perceived as trajectories, densities, and directional forces, while shifts in tuning produce corresponding changes in sonic form and spatial orientation.
The music avoids linear narrative and thematic development, unfolding instead through the gradual organization of sonic spaces. Each piece establishes a listening condition in which relationships between pitch, texture, and temporal continuity are experienced as non-centralized and non-teleological. Situated between research and artistic practice, the album treats tuning as a generative structure rather than a corrective mechanism. Listening becomes an encounter with divided space—an acoustic environment in which sound derives its internal balance and motion from the tuning system itself.
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0:00/4:01
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0:00/4:08
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0:00/3:18
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0:00/5:29