Serpentforms by Joel Kivelä

Improvisational microtonal taqsim jazz compositions with otherwordly dark psychedelic "solarpunk" aesthetics, as a sonification of Hebrew Torah narrative, of the first half of the first book of Moses.

Programmed and recorded in October, edited and composed in November 2023, while following closely the revolving events happening in the states of Israel and Palestine.The gamepad musical instrument system used was developed concurrently with the music.

Sony DualShock 4 (tracks 1-4)
Akai EWI Solo (track 5)
manaCompiler
Ardour

22-tone just intonation system from Augmented 7th harmonic (31:16) (tracks 1,2,4 & 5)

24-tone just intonation approximation of the Arabic quartertone Maqam system (track 3)

Sound effects and field recordings used found from Freesound.org

Finnish wind instrumentalist, composer and software developer born in 1985.

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