Unforeseen Consequences

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instrumental microtonal

14 tracks

58:02

1	1. 19 / octave	2:10
2	2. 17 / octave	7:45
3	3. 21 /octave	3:33
4	4. Bohlen-Pierce	4:55
5	5. 15 / octave	2:58
6	6. 19 / octave	2:42
7	7. 19 / octave	2:40
8	8. 15 / octave	4:00
9	9. 19 / octave	2:06
10	10. 10 / octave	4:03
11	11. Bohlen-Pierce	4:18
12	12. 11 / octave	3:43
13	13. 17 / octave	4:18
14	14. 19 / octave	8:51

Album description

Unforeseen Consequences:

More Xenharmonic Studies

Randy Winchester

The pieces in Unforeseen Consequences were recorded in the Emergency Music Studio, a collection of pre-MIDI analog synthesizers and sound processing equipment. The studio was assembled in 1984 and used for the recordings Danger: Starts Automatically and Suburban Jazz Studies. One of the perceived problems of EMS was that without a computer interface, all the patches, knob settings and sequences were a one-shot deal and performances were essentially irreproducible at a later time. The studio was abandonded to make room for what was believed at the time to be the current state of the art in keyboard synthesizers.

EMS was resurrected in 1994 to deal with a deficiency in the new hardware, namely the lack of any means of playing music outside of twelve equally tempered tones per octave! EMS is an outstanding collection of gear for xenharmonic music. The old synth modules still generate big wanton ramp waves that haven't been heard in most music in recent years.

This is genuine electronic music, full of real electronics, intermodulation, phasing effects, crackly ADSRs and many other aural anomalies that just don't fit well with current musical trends. The important point with this recording though, is the many tunings that are used. They are as distinct from everyday 12 as the equipment used for this recording.

- Notes by Randy Winchester, 1997

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Reviews on Unforeseen Consequences

SaReGaMa

Musicology

26/04/07

Challenging of conventional octave division system.

ljmudit

Music for Intelligent People!

11/03/08

Well, this ain't that genre of music which is enjoyable. After reading the album description a lot of my doubts are cleared. I can't even imagine making music without the help of computers. As nowadays computers make many things very easy to perform. But! Imagine the 80's! What come's in yer mind's about computers? >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The tracks are one dimensional, but it has something which is far more enjoyable than the current generation electronic music. This is argueably genuine electronic music. The last thing that appeared in my mind after listening to this music was the 1980's
video game age. Remember 'Mario'? Yep that.....

-Mudit Sood