An Amputated Elliptic Knob of the Cryptocurve Regenerates

by City of the Asleep

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Also includes a 12-page manuscript offering a detailed explanation of Orgone temperament, its modes and melodic properties, harmonic structure, and how it is extended to incorporate additional harmonic series intervals in the tunings used.

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	1.	Cisgender Lens Distance 04:56
	2.	Panic Decay Sustain Release 02:59
	3.	Obelisk of Tamarind 05:25
	4.	Arm Follicles Gauge the Breeze 03:55
	5.	Key Logs, Algebraic Lumber 04:46
	6.	Lungsquid Siphons Piping 03:29
	7.	A Pocky Calypso 03:33
	8.	Susan's Voluptuous Name 04:35
	9.	Dark Wood Luthier Shop Smell 04:38
	10.	Tidally Locked 04:08
	11.	Gecko in a Bear Market 05:11
	12.	Sexual Accumulation 04:06
	13.	With Twilight This Tall 06:12
	14.	Snoqualmie Rises 04:07

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This album was commissioned by Mark Vines, who named it (and all the tracks) and provided guidance on some compositional aspects. It exclusively uses a temperament known as Orgone, and specifically a 7-note scale of Orgone temperament as tuned in four different equal divisions of the octave (11edo, 15edo, 26edo, and 477edo). Orgone is a temperament based on approximations to the 2nd, 7th, and 11th harmonics exclusively, although various tunings of it suggest the presence of other harmonics "incidentally". The tracks are quite varied stylistically, ranging from ambient, to surf rock, to jazz, to gamelan...it's all over the map!

If you want to know more about the temperament, the tunings of it, and how I worked with it, there are copious notes included with the album download.

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released January 4, 2019

Commissioned by Mark Lane Vines
Composed, performed, and mixed by Igliashon Jones
Mastered by Steve Mueske
Narration on "Arm Follicles Gauge the Breeze" by Alan Watts

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City of the Asleep Portland, Oregon

Instrumental music, often blending glitch and EDM with surf, progressive rock, classical, and avant-garde experimentalism. Heavy doses of surrealism/absurdism. Sound-paintings, non-ambient dreamscapes. Frequently microtonal/xenharmonic!

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