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Mar
03
Chiptune Love is a Drug
Published in Untagged by Mark van Mechelen | Comment (0)I think I’m addicted.
Scratch that. Been addicted. Probably my whole life. Let’s just say I was impressed at an impressionable age. And now it’s a serious problem — I can’t turn Leighton Meester off. That self-same 8-bit sound that permeated my five-year-old heart and mind is being pumped gallon by slobber-inducing gallon into the music industry’s [...]
Jan
28
Orcish Octotonality or: Not Your Momma's Orc Theme Song
Published in Untagged by Mark van Mechelen | Comment (1)The octatonic scale is one of those things every music theory course teaches. Okay, we nod our heads. Eight notes in a scale. Instead of the normal seven. We listen as the professor ramps up, getting himself increasingly excited about the fact that it’s basically two stacked diminished chords, a completely symmetric scale, four of every single interval. Cool. In one ear and out the other.
[Keep Reading! to find out how this all relates to orcs...]
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