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Hey music maestros! Just wanted to send a shameless plug for an album I've posted on You Tube. It's a Planet Suite for the modern age. Was going to call it "The Exoplanet Suite"; but that name's already taken apparently! Likes and subscribes would be very much appreciated, as they really help me with the dreaded You Tube algorithm! I think all the tracks have been posted here before; but I've remastered them with vibrant new stereo mixes. Hopefully they work together as a suite? (N.B. The first track has been rewritten according to Peter's advice about staccato strings.) Alex

Although microtonal, this piece was intended to be a little more palatable harmonically. I use 1/6th and 1/3rd tones so I guess technically it's 36 tet. The microtonal adjustments were only applied to the underlying harmony rather than the melodic voices so it could also be considered poly-microtonal (12 tet and 36 tet together). But I consider the microtonality in this to be really "lite", but let me know what you think! I also kinda was thinking of this as a VGM track rather than a concert-piece although I guess it didn't really end up that way. I'd appreciate any of your suggestions, comments, critiques or just observations. Thanks for listening! Edit: I've included a version of the piece with syntonic commas instead of 1/3rd and 1/6th flats/sharps. This should better approximate justly tuned 3rds in this piece. Also - my comments about the piece being in 36tet no longer apply in this version (#2).

The harmony is definitely confusing, it gives the piece a very different, interesting feel. I'm not sure if its supposed to be peaceful, ominous or romantic. Or perhaps all 3? Sure, this could work in a video game, maybe in a somewhat serene, but darker scene. You know what would be fun? If you converted this to normal harmony, so we can get a side by side comparison. My guess is that this would be very romantic.