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Run Time: 140 Minutes
Street Date: Nov 26, 2025.
TRACK LIST:
1. Chimes of an Antique Starship
2. Theropods in my Garden
3. Like I’m Coming from Every Pore
4. Mister Bristle’s Eerie Spleen
5. Snorting Forbidden Crystalline Nebulium Sulfate, part 1 of 2
6. Snorting Forbidden Crystalline Nebulium Sulfate, part 2 of 2
Songs 4, 5 and 6 are microtonal. More info below.
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CREDITS
All writing, playing, engineering, production, mixing, and mastering by Michael W. Dean.
Cover art by MWD made from this, original photo by Guillaume Paumier, covered by Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 license.
Album makes extensive use of the free VST “Pretty Good Sampler” and its default samples.
Church bells in “Like I’m Coming from Every Pore” were recorded by Sadiquecat!
Church of St. Salvy, Catholic church in Albi, France
250629_07h58 Albi Church of St. Salvy – Bells – MKE600
(bells of another church from Sadiquecat too)
Nebulium is a non-existent element that was once thought to exist in nebulae, and it was considered a “forbidden” element. Technical explanation of Nebulium and Forbidden Lines is here.
Song title explanation for “Like I’m Coming from Every Pore”
When I was young, I read a book in the library in my home town that had a description of someone injecting Peruvian marching powder intravenously. She said it felt like “Coming from every pore.”
It was spelled “coming” not “cumming”, and I thought it meant “arriving from every pore” which I liked the sound of. I didn’t know what “cumming” meant yet.
MICROTONAL INFO:
“Mister Bristle’s Eerie Spleen” has 19-TET melody / solos over a mostly 12-TET song.
“Snorting Forbidden Crystalline Nebulium Sulfate” is in Just Intonation, Euler’s Monochord (a mode of Ellis’s duodene), genus [33355] to be specific.
(FROM GROK): “Euler’s concept of the monochord originates from his 1739 treatise Tentamen novae theoriae musicae, where he explored musical scales as divisions of a single string (the monochord) into harmonic intervals based on rational ratios, primarily using prime factors 2, 3, and 5. He classified these divisions into genera (or genera musici), which are finite sets of pitches forming a closed system under octave equivalence. Each genus is notated as a bracketed sequence of interval steps, such as [55] for the diatonic genus or [35] for a simpler 5-limit structure.”
Here’s how it differs from 12-TET
Note Just ¢ TET ¢ Diff
C 0.0 0 0.0
D♭ 111.7 100 +11.7
D 203.9 200 +3.9
E♭ 315.6 300 +15.6
E 386.3 400 -13.7
F 498.0 500 -2.0
F♯ 590.2 600 -9.8
G 701.9 700 +1.9
A♭ 813.7 800 +13.7
A 884.4 900 -15.6
B♭ 1017.6 1000 +17.6
B 1088.3 1100 -11.7
C’ 1200.0 1200 0.0
“Definition
• Genus: In the context of Euler-Fokker genera, the notation
3335533355
33355
(or
3·53 center dot 5
3·5
) indicates that the pitches in the scale are generated using the prime factors 3 and 5, where the exponents relate to the number of basic intervals used to build the system. The degree is the sum of the exponents (3+2=5 intervals).
• Number of Tones: The number of unique pitches within the octave for this genus is determined by adding one to each exponent and multiplying them: (3+1) × (2+1) = 4 × 3 = 12 tones.
• Tuning: The system is a just intonation scale, meaning the frequency ratios between notes are expressed as ratios of small whole numbers (specifically powers of 2, 3, and 5).
• Monochord: The name refers to the ancient instrument (a single string with a movable bridge) used to demonstrate and calculate these precise mathematical relationships and musical intervals.
• Ellis’s Duodene: This tuning is considered a specific “mode” or variant within Alexander Ellis’s broader system called the “duodene,” which also explores various 5-limit just intonation scales.
This particular system was one of many historical attempts by Leonhard Euler and other theorists to mathematically define a tuning system that produced pleasant-sounding consonant intervals, primarily focusing on major triads with the 4:5:6 frequency ratios”
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