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What would Wendy Carlos think? Yes, this is Bach's classic, but the microtonal principle is that the generating perfect fifth for this scale is so flat that the entire diatonic scale construct turns "inside out" so that there are 5 half steps and 2 whole steps, instead of 5 whole steps and 2 half steps. We can generically call such an inside-out scale "anti-diatonic." I did this specifically because it was fun to play live and because I wanted something to be intuitive in the anti-diatonic layout. This music was perfect because we could read on the white keys. Sharps and flats sound backwards which is a trip! In addition to the normal anti-diatonic flips, some really strange movements happen, my favorite being that the opposing directions of a sharp and flat in a diminished seventh chord cause two notes to point inward instead of outwards, meaning that whenever you're supposed to hear a dim7 in the original song, you hear an augmented chord in 25edo with a 1\25 dissonance in it :)

Antidiatonic layouts seem like a great idea in principle, but after some time with them I'm starting to think that having ascending steps always go rightwards is most important. In anti-diatonic lumatone layouts there's ascending steps that go down-left.

I played this LIVE at the Muncie Common Market! Shoutout to Bubba Fontaine for inviting me!

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