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Easley Blackwood (work on microtonal etudes)

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Consult on "Acoustic Microtonal" album with Matthew Sheeran
Matthew Sheeran recreated the Etudes with the Budapest Scoring Orchestra by individually tracking each instrument and re-tuning using Melodyne. My job was to help translate microtonal etudes from their tunings to 12-TET and check by ear. His work was featured on the New York Times, Now and Xen, and Samuel Andreyev's channel. Check out the album here.

Keyboard arrangements of etudes
It's one of my goals to play all of EB's microtonal etudes on modified Halberstadt keyboard as YouTube videos. This may only go so far, due to difficulty, speed, and real estate - as more notes are crammed into an octave we have less to work with since there are still only 88 keys. If incentivized, I may also create versions playable on a 12-TET interface as well, re-tuned to 12-note subsets and various patches with a pedal. So far, we have 13, 15, 16, and 17.

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Analysis of Easley Blackwood's "Twelve Microtonal Etudes for Electronic Music Media"
My master's thesis from Ball State University, where I also discuss my ideas for creating the companion composition, "Six Macrotonal Etudes for Electronic Music Media." The Etudes analyzed here are the 13-EDO, 15-EDO, and 23-EDO.

Other Easley Blackwood media:
Now and Xen episode featuring EB, Lecture of my goals and experiences, rendering 15-EDO etude in 12-EDO, Fanfare in 19-EDO guitar play-along, MIDI visualizations of etudes

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