Beauty in the Beast is an album

Album

An album is a collection of recordings, released as a single package on gramophone record, cassette, compact disc, or via digital distribution. The word derives from the Latin word for list .Vinyl LP records have two sides, each comprising one half of the album...

 by Wendy Carlos

Wendy Carlos

Wendy Carlos is an American composer and electronic musician. Carlos first came to notice in the late 1960s with recordings made on the Moog synthesizer, then a relatively new and unknown instrument; most notable were LPs of synthesized Bach and the soundtrack for Stanley Kubrick's film A...

 using alternate tunings

Musical tuning

In music, there are two common meanings for tuning:* Tuning practice, the act of tuning an instrument or voice.* Tuning systems, the various systems of pitches used to tune an instrument, and their theoretical bases.-Tuning practice:...

 and scales

Musical scale

In music, a scale is a sequence of musical notes in ascending and descending order. Most commonly, especially in the context of the common practice period, the notes of a scale will belong to a single key, thus providing material for or being used to conveniently represent part or all of a musical...

 and influenced by jazz

Jazz

Jazz is a musical style that originated at the beginning of the 20th century in African American communities in the Southern United States. It was born out of a mix of African and European music traditions. From its early development until the present, jazz has incorporated music from 19th and 20th...

 and world music

World music

World music is a term with widely varying definitions, often encompassing music which is primarily identified as another genre. This is evidenced by world music definitions such as "all of the music in the world" or "somebody else's local music"...

. On the back she includes a quote by Van Gogh

Vincent van Gogh

Vincent Willem van Gogh , and used Brabant dialect in his writing; it is therefore likely that he himself pronounced his name with a Brabant accent: , with a voiced V and palatalized G and gh. In France, where much of his work was produced, it is...

: "I am always doing what I cannot do yet, in order to learn how to do it."

As the liner notes state, the entire album is synthesized, meaning that, "All the music and sounds heard on this recording were directly digitally generated. This eliminates all the limitations of microphone

Microphone

A microphone is an acoustic-to-electric transducer or sensor that converts sound into an electrical signal. In 1877, Emile Berliner invented the first microphone used as a telephone voice transmitter...

s, the weak link necessary in nearly all other digital recording

Digital recording

In digital recording, digital audio and digital video is directly recorded to a storage device as a stream of discrete numbers, representing the changes in air pressure for audio and chroma and luminance values for video through time, thus making an abstract template for the original sound or...

s, including those which employ 'sampling

Sampling (music)

In music, sampling is the act of taking a portion, or sample, of one sound recording and reusing it as an instrument or a different sound recording of a song or piece. Sampling was originally developed by experimental musicians working with musique concrète and electroacoustic music, who physically...

' technologies."

1. Incantation
2. Beauty In The Beast
3. Poem For Bali
   Music of Bali
   Bali is an Indonesian island that shares in the gamelan and various other Indonesian musical styles. Bali, however, has its own techniques and styles, including kecak, a form of singing that imitates the sound of monkeys...
   
   
4. Just
   Just intonation
   In music, just intonation is any musical tuning in which the frequencies of notes are related by ratios of small whole numbers. Any interval tuned in this way is called a just interval. The two notes in any just interval are members of the same harmonic series...
   
    Imaginings
5. That's Just It
6. Yusae-Aisae [pronounced "You say I say"]
7. C'est Afrique
   Music of Africa
   Africa is a vast continent and its regions and nations have distinct musical traditions. The music of North Africa for the most part has a different history from sub-Saharan African music traditions....
   
   
8. A Woman's Song

1. "tritone
   Tritone
   In classical music from Western culture, the tritone |tone]]) is traditionally defined as a musical interval composed of three whole tones. In a chromatic scale, each whole tone can be further divided into two semitones...
   
    rich"
2. Beta
   Beta scale
   The β scale is a non-octave-repeating musical scale which splits the perfect fourth into two equal parts, or eight equal parts of approximately 64 cents each . This totals approximately 18.75 steps per octave...
   
   and Alpha
   Alpha scale
   The α scale is a non-octave-repeating musical scale which splits the minor third into two equal parts, or four equal parts of approximately 78 cents each . This totals approximately 15.39 steps per octave...
   
   scales
3. Pelog
   Pelog
   Pelog is one of the two essential scales of gamelan music native to Bali and Java, in Indonesia. The other scale commonly used is called slendro. Pelog has seven notes, but many gamelan ensembles only have keys for five of the pitches...
   
   and Slendro
   Slendro
   Slendro is a pentatonic scale, one of the two most common scales used in Indonesian gamelan music, the other being pélog.-Tuning:...
   
   tunings
4. Harmonic Scale
   Harmonic Scale
   The Harmonic Scale is a "Super-Just" musical scale allowing extended just intonation, beyond 5-limit to the 19th harmonic , and free modulation through the use of synthesizers...
   
   with modulation
   Modulation (music)
   In music, modulation is most commonly the act or process of changing from one key to another. This may or may not be accompanied by a change in key signature. Modulations articulate or create the structure or form of many pieces, as well as add interest...
   
   
5. Harmonic Scale, jazz
6. Harmonic Scale, "Hollywoodesque Mid-Eastern marketplace"
7. African rhythm
   Rhythm
   Rhythm may be generally defined as a "movement marked by the regulated succession of strong and weak elements, or of opposite or different conditions." This general meaning of regular recurrence or pattern in time may be applied to a wide variety of cyclical natural phenomena having a periodicity or...
   
   
8. Bulgarian Sheperdess's
   Valya Balkanska
   Valya Mladenova Balkanska is a Bulgarian folk music singer from the Rhodope Mountains known locally for her wide repertoire of Balkan folksong, but in the West mainly for singing the song "Izlel e Delyu Haydutin", part of the Voyager Golden Record selection of music included in the two Voyager...
   
    "Izel je Delyo Hajdutin
   Izel je Delyo Hajdutin
   "Izlel ye Delyo Haydutin" is a Bulgarian folk song from the central Rhodope Mountains about Delyo, a rebel leader who was active in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries...
   
   " with tambura
   Tambura
   The tambura, tanpura, or tambora is a long-necked plucked lute . The body shape of the tambura somewhat resembles that of the sitar, but it has no frets – only the open strings are played to accompany other musicians...
   
    and dilruba, instead of Bulgarian bagpipes, appropriate raga
   Raga
   A raga is one of the melodic modes used in Indian classical music.It is a series of five or more musical notes upon which a melody is made...
   
    tuning, western horns
   Horn (instrument)
   The horn is a brass instrument consisting of about of tubing wrapped into a coil with a flared bell. A musician who plays the horn is called a horn player ....
   
   , crotales
   Crotales
   thumb|right|Crotales are often used with other mallet percussionCrotales , sometimes called antique cymbals, are percussion instruments consisting of small, tuned bronze or brass disks. Each is about 4 inches in diameter with a flat top surface and a nipple on the base. They are commonly...
   
   , and several hybrid timbres

External links

• "BitB Notes", WendyCarlos.com.