Chucky and Petrushka: Minions of the Octatonic There is one scale that is so deliciously evil, it hasn’t been heard for an hundred years. It goes by many names ― Octatonic (for its eight tones), Symmetric (for its perfect triadic symmetry), Diminished (for its Twin Diminished Keys), and Synthetic (for its artificial origins). This scale […]
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The Song of Speech
There is a musical illusion, in which a spoken sentence is looped, until gradually, a subtle perceptual change occurs in the mind’s ear, and the words turn into tones, and the sentence becomes a melody. The illusion shows that there is no unique physical property of sound that accounts for a voice being perceived as […]
Picardy Party
A picardy is a minor-major switcheroo. When music is sad, and suddenly turns triumphant, this is the picardy at work. And it is all thanks to one little note – the Third or Mediant. In the example above, the Mediant is the note in the middle – the Third. In C Minor the mediant E […]
Albums
Lost Doggies (2022)Lazulum (2019)Selah (2019)Heddagabalus (2018)Ear Op (2017)Delano Park (2015)e’rebody (2014)Onebody (2007)Dos Doggies (2003)Los Doggies (2002) Lost Doggies (2022) Lost Doggies by Los Doggies, not to be confused with Los Doggies (2001) by Los Doggies, our first album. Dos Doggies (2002) was the sequel, and this is a kind of third one in a Godfather III sorta way. An album […]
