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Higly abstract artwork made out of a collage of highly processed photos. It is colorful, grainy and sort of looks like it is a mixture of photos of some stats from the aranet CO2 meter and a mesh on a FFP2 mask. It has the album title overlayed in colorful funky letters. The whole cover gives off a small amount of self aware "graphic design is my passion" vibes.
Higly abstract artwork made out of a collage of highly processed photos. It is colorful, grainy and sort of looks like it is a mixture of photos of some stats from the aranet CO2 meter and a mesh on a FFP2 mask. It has the album title overlayed in colorful funky letters. The whole cover gives off a small amount of self aware "graphic design is my passion" vibes.

lofi microtonal beats to avoid brain damage to

XymMusic
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A collection of more or less lo-fi, glitchy, microtonal tracks made while I was lying down in my bed, barely able to get up from illness.
1. intro
1:28
5:54
5:40
2:30
2:30
1:47
3:01
8. step up
1:52
2:26
3:02
3:27
3:33
4:35
14. outro
1:46

lofi microtonal beats to avoid brain damage to (2025)

XymMusic

"Mixed" on even shittier headphones than usual, but the arrangements are minimal, on purpose, so it should be fine. It is intended to be lo-fi and noisy, and at times, uncomfortable.

The title is slightly ironic- it references specific trends of "consuming music". "Lo-fi beats to relax to, a spotify playlist to eat dinner to, 440hz music to heal all your maladies, music to listen to in your car..." this album is none of those things. However, it is always advisable to avoid brain damage. Even if you are already affected. It is never too late to start protecting yourself and others. At the time of writing this, we are entering the 6th year of the COVID-19 pandemic. And yet the knowledge about how to protect oneself from a viral infection that can cause systemic damage to one's organism, including one's nervous system, is dissapearing from public view. The thoughts of the ongoing pandemic are suppressed, and anyone who brings them closer to the surface is discriminated against. There is not much I can do about this, other than make horrible music about it, as a protest.

We are all vulnerable. A lot of mammals are vulnerable. I am vulnerable. You are vulnerable.

I don't want to fall by the wayside. What kind of world do you want?

Credits:

Used some samples from controlfreak controlfreak-studio.itch.io/broke-and-dirt-003 as well as some short snippets blatantly stolen from various youtube videos, and then lo-fi'ed into oblivion

Attribution Non-commercial No Derivatives https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/ But if you want to remix it just let me know and ask here @rybson@todon.eu, if you are reading this here on the zeroes faircamp, i will most likely have no problem whatsoever with it.

Track notes/ descriptions/tunings below-

  1. intro 01:28 10 cent TET

  2. try your best to avoid brain damage (slowed+reverb) 05:54

Now with extra crunch. original here https://xymmusic.bandcamp.com/track/try-your-best-to-avoid-brain-damage EDO 24

lyrics: everybody on the planet has been touched by covid-19

  1. quarter of a thought 05:40 when only a part of your cognitive capacity is available to you. 24 edo.

  2. we are all under stress 02:30 The odd one out. This one is not very microtonal, mostly sample based so i did not use any particular "tuning" here

  3. mask (to have energy to sing later) 02:30

I actually have a melody and lyrics for this song. But I feel too ill currently to record it properly. Maybe one day I'll add it. edo 24

  1. pandemic 01:47 inspired by the "recipe" from here: https://youtube.com/shorts/o5gGyYxoYdY a cifteli tuning

lyrics: eee the pandemic is not over

  1. rest to regenerate your brain 03:01 rest, there are many challenges ahead of us. and remember about pacing. an example tutorial over here: https://www.cfsselfhelp.org/pacing-tutorial al farabi 19 tuning lyrics: rest rest more

  2. step up 01:52 Turkish gamut with schismatic simplifications

we are gonna need people to step up step up

  1. falling by the wayside 02:26 36 equal divisions of 11/2

  2. stay safe in the metro 03:02 36 equal divisions of 11/2

  3. we need masks in healthcare 03:27 We need masks in healthcare. voice sample from the protest against removing masks in healthcare in 2023 Mixture of Turkish and Arabic general intonations of Rast, Huseyni, Uzzal and Garip Hijaz and with perde rast on C, dugah on D by Dr. Oz. lyrics: potrzebujemy nakazu masek w placówkach medycznych. Nakaz masek w placówkach medycznych.

  4. that ship has sailed 03:33 the cruise ship has left but we could still try and change our course. 46edo sensi[11].scl lyrics: cruise travel is the riskiest type of travel i don't think anybody should be cruising, frankly well i thought the days were gone, thought they were over, but we returned last week from our group cruise, and people got covid this is not what i expected to be talking about turns out i tested positive for covid that cruise ship has left

  5. we should have at least one safe space 04:35 1 cent equal temperament lyrics: Keep masks in healthcare settings

fear

they're not getting care

Keep masks in healthcare settings even though the official public emergency has ended.

We should have at least one safe space.

elevated heartrates

significant chunk of the population

covid has completely changed their health and their lives

instytut kardiologii

millions are still living with long covid symptoms

  1. outro 01:46 10 cent TET
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