Early Microtonal Works, by City of the Asleep

Early Microtonal Works

by City of the Asleep

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Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality downloads of HABAFROPZIPULOPS, An Amputated Elliptic Knob of the Cryptocurve Regenerates, these months are days in a timeless week, spent on the shores of a sleepless dream, Transfinity, Transcendissonance, Ghosts of Halfland, The 5ound of De5olation, Map of an Internal Landscape (Reissue), and 1 more. , and , .

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1.	17edo-A Calamitous Simultaneity 03:57	buy track
2.	17edo-Exploratory Mischief 05:03	buy track
3.	22edo-The Fall of the Satellites 03:12	buy track
4.	22edo-Through The Streets 02:33	buy track
5.	22edo-Absurdist Love Song 05:37	buy track
6.	22edo-Breakdown Hives 03:50	buy track
7.	22edo-Porcupline 02:20	buy track
8.	22edo-Life on the Sunken Continent 06:57	buy track
9.	22edo-Rats With Wings 02:27	buy track
10.	12TUP-The Ballade of Unplayed Notes 06:04	buy track
11.	12TUP-Bunk Futter 02:38	buy track
12.	12TUP-Eh, "Tonal"? 03:08	buy track
13.	12TUP-Cloud Droplets 03:00	buy track
14.	12TUP-The Mystery of Dark Energy (a la Turk) 03:36	buy track
15.	12TUP-Vivisection of a Carnivorous Space Plant 05:56	buy track
16.	31edo-I Stand Hopeless Before the Gray Sea 03:30	buy track
17.	31edo-Obrunduul 03:50	buy track
18.	31edo-Mourning the Birth of Morning 04:18	buy track

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It's been a long time since this album has existed on the internet in a readily-accessible place. These recordings are my very first forays into microtonal music, using four different refretted guitars: one (poorly done) in 31edo, one (well-done) in 22edo, one (manufactured) in Jon Catler's 12-tone Ultra Plus system, and one (hand-made from scratch) in 17edo. The recording quality is kinda potato, as these tracks were recorded in 2004-2006 or so, when I was much less experienced in music production.

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released May 8, 2006

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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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