Four-Momentum by Elaine Walker
Four-Momentum
1. Hyperbolica (20edo) 04:32
2. Magic Rectangle (Bohlen-Pierce Scale) 05:24
3. Infinity (Bohlen-Pierce Scale) 05:52
4. Pathogen (15edo) 04:33
5. Ellipse (14edo) 05:37
6. Tetradecahedron (14edo) 04:36
7. Decagon Dancefloor (10edo) 03:45
8. Mobius (15edo) 04:23
9. Four-Momentum (Bohlen-Pierce Scale) 03:39
10. Wave Equation (17edo) 04:46
11. Euler's Identity (Bohlen-Pierce) 05:35
12. Skate Space (16edo) 04:51
13.Trapezoid (15edo) 04:49
14. Lorentz Force (17edo) 04:00
Hi guys! In case you're wondering why there have been some changes around here…
I'm rebranding my newer music as "Elaine Walker" (me) instead of ZIA so that people can differentiate between the older ZIA tunes (which were primarily vocal and used 100% hardware synthesizers) and my newer instrumental music (Four-Momentum and No Terrestrial Road) which is predominantly instrumental and composed mainly on software synths. Never fear. Rebranding me as me doesn't really change much.
Here's a bit of background on Four-Momentum:
Four-Momentum was my first solo album in many years, composed with software synths, which have a different sound than my hardware synths that people came to know ZIA by. Even without the lyrical content, it has the expected outer space theme. But instead of the usual humans-in-space motif, these songs were inspired by space-time itself, thus the title Four-Momentum. I think about this stuff a lot, and that's the part of my brain where this music came from.
Many of the songs were also inspired by the math I began doing in 2018– With no practical skills in algebra, I realized that year that I had a weird gift for visualizing mathematical shapes (topological or geometric shapes, thinking in "4d" etc.. infinity must be defeated!). Anyway, I naturally began researching various math topics with my mathematician partner, who was my new best friend at the time, helping me discover I had skills I never knew about. Our first research paper was accepted in 2020 to the Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society, the same publication where my dad, Elbert A. Walker, was first published in the 1950s. Mom, Carol L. Walker, is also a mathematician and the first woman to get her Ph.D. at New Mexico State University. In closing, I would like my listeners to peruse the topic of four-momentum and Einstein's relativity while listening (or roller skate while listening). Or better yet, check out my math on http://ziaspace.com if you feel inclined. I still can't do algebra, and I don't expect you to either, so I will work in the months to come to translate a lot of it into English (and images, many of which are already posted).
Four-Momentum was my first release since Drum'n'Space (2011), partly because I was writing a 300-page physics/philosophy book – "Matter Over Mind: Cosmos, Chaos, and Curiosity," now on Amazon. Check it out, and please don't neglect to read the intro. It's one of those books where the intro is so important you may miss the book's main point if you don't read it.
Several different equal temperaments (microtonality!) are used in Four-Momentum – 10edo, 14edo, 15edo,16edo, 17edo, 20edo, and the Bohlen-Pierce Scale (no octaves!). An earlier version of Four-Momentum was released on Split-Notes.com microtonal netlabel, December 2018, and is now being re-released with the songs formerly on the Trapezoid album.
Please visit http://ZiaSpace.com.
Tracklist
| 1. | Hyperbolica (20edo) | 4:32 |
| 2. | Magic Rectangle (Bohlen-Pierce Scale) | 5:25 |
| 3. | Infinity (Bohlen-Pierce Scale) | 5:52 |
| 4. | Pathogen (15edo) | 4:33 |
| 5. | Ellipse (14edo) | 5:38 |
| 6. | Tetradecahedron (14edo) | 4:36 |
| 7. | Decagon Dancefloor (10edo) | 3:45 |
| 8. | Mobius (15edo) | 4:23 |
| 9. | Four-Momentum (Bohlen-Pierce Scale) | 3:40 |
| 10. | Euler's Identity (Bohlen-Pierce Scale) | 5:36 |
| 11. | Wave Equation (17edo) | 4:46 |
| 12. | Skate Space (16edo) | 4:52 |
| 13. | Trapezoid (15edo) | 4:50 |
| 14. | Lorentz Force (17edo) | 4:00 |
Credits
Written and Produced by Elaine Walker. Thanks to GCG for drum sounds on Hyperbolica and Wave Equation, thanks to Kukutakuta for drum sounds on Euler's Identity, and thanks to Mike Kleinschmidt for drum sounds on Lorentz Force.
License
All rights reserved.
Elaine Walker is an electronic musician and microtonal composer. She is the author of a non-fiction book, Matter Over Mind: Cosmos, Chaos, and Curiosity. Realizing she had a gift for visualizing mathematics as an adult, she now has several published math papers (see arXiv.org). She volunteers for the NewSpace community, promoting the idea of humans living on Mars. She is also a member of Alcor.