I'm just listening to some microtonal music. Listening to this stuff is kind of mind-bending. It's incredible to imagine what music would have been like if we wrote our music in other tunings and not just the standard twelve-pitch one. Just imagine all the chord progressions and melodies that could have existed. All those harmonies lost in time like tears in the rain.

Can you imagine what music in alien civilizations must sound like? Music sounds right to us because we're conditioned to it. That's why we use only like four chords most of the time. Even culturally, we have stuff like Japanese pop music with all those modulations and seventh and ninth chords and to Westerners, that sounds "weird" or "different" because we're not raised from birth exposed to that stuff.

It's like the allegory of the cave.

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