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Minor Key by Cassian Voss: The Suspended Fourth

Minor Key by Cassian Voss—an unresolved suspended fourth, upright piano at 2 a.m. in Edinburgh, room tone as instrument.

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“Minor Key” ends on a suspended fourth that never resolves. “The tension lives within the not-moving,” Voss says. “The bus at 0:22 evolves, but the chord does not.”

Upright piano at 2 a.m.

Recorded in an Edinburgh flat with the window open and the street below.

Room tone as instrument

One microphone above middle C, piano lid open. The room itself became part of the song.

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