[atoav]

As someone who grew up with a detuned piano I was kinda shocked how boring a tuned one sounded like. No/minimal beating phantom tones between similar notes. No detuned chorus between the different strings of one tone etc.

Our modern tonal systems make sense, but to me microtonal ones have more spice to them. Even stuff like Aphex Twin constantly uses "incorrect" tunings (analog gear is like that) and this makes up a signifikant part of the sound.

Or listen to stuff by Wendy Carlos. Just otherworldly

[hyperjeff]

Especially Carlos’s Beauty in the Beast, one of my fav albums. It seems to have a strong Indonesian influence in places, and I’ve since found similar exotic tunings in music from there.

[atoav]

That was the one I was thinking about : )