The Geared Fate

The Geared Fate is a devotional form of music directed toward the worship of The Wire of Trade originating in The Pulley of Strategies. The form guides musicians during improvised performances. A singer recites nonsensical words and sounds while the music is played on three merseth, three kudar and a ibes. The music is melody and rhythm without harmony. The entire performance is to be loud. The melody has phrases of varied length throughout the form. Never more than an interval sounds at once. It is performed using the tosid scale and in free rhythm. Throughout, when possible, performers are to modulate frequently.

• The singer always provides the rhythm and should be energetic. The voice uses its entire range.
• Each merseth always does the main melody, should feel agitated and uses grace notes.
• Each kudar always provides the rhythm and should feel furious.
• The ibes always does the main melody, should feel furious and uses grace notes.
• The Geared Fate has a simple structure: three to five unrelated passages.
• Each of the simple passages is at a hurried pace.
• Scales are conceived of as two chords built using a division of the perfect fourth interval into eleven notes. The tonic note is fixed only at the time of performance.
• As always, the tosid hexatonic scale is thought of as two disjoint chords drawn from the fundamental division of the perfect fourth. These chords are named bidok and zustash.
• The bidok trichord is the 1st, the 7th and the 11th degrees of the fundamental perfect fourth division.
• The zustash tetrachord is the 1st, the 2nd, the 5th and the 11th degrees of the fundamental perfect fourth division.

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