Frank Rothkamm - Quarter Tone Partitas [2019]

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Catalog No: FLX158 (LN520)

Title: Quarter Tone Partitas

Sound Artist: Frank Rothkamm

Visual Artist: Holger Rothkamm

Label: rothkamm.com

Length: 33:33 (2013s)

Composed: 2019

Location: Los Angeles

Instruments: Yamaha TG300

Release Date: 07/11/2019

Format: Digital

Tags: Yamaha TG300

IFORMM

The Western tuning system divides the octave into 12 equal steps. The smallest step is called the half-tone. On the piano keyboard the smallest interval between keys is this half-tone. What if we take an electronic keyboard - whose sound color has more inharmonic, or bell-like overtones than a piano - and tune this a quarter tone higher than an identical keyboard. The smallest distance between notes would then be a quarter tone, half of a half tone. We have 2 “bell-ish” sounding electronic keyboards, tuned a quarter tone apart. The 10 partitas on this album which add up to 33 minutes and 33 seconds, were all recorded with this micro-tonal system.

released July 11, 2019

classical electronic ambient microtonal Los Angeles