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Happy new year, everyone!

The second song in my upcoming six-part album Microtonal Mania!. I used 22edo for this one, meaning each octave is split into 22 equal parts instead of the usual 12. 22edo has a perfect fifth that sounds similar to 12edo's (though it is much sharper), and since major/minor scales are based on stacking perfect fifths around an octave, major and minor scales still work. However, major intervals (made from stacking fifths upward) sound much sharper than 12edo, and minor intervals (made from stacking fifths downward) sound flatter. This means that the difference between, say, a perfect fifth and a minor sixth in 12edo is two times larger than in 22edo. I tried to utilize this small interval (aka minor second) in this piece.

Written in A♭ Aeolian (aka A♭ minor).

Please provide feedback on this piece! You can find the album on SoundCloud here.