The Moon (2017) – the uncharted spaces beyond harmony for 1/3 tone piano
The Moon is the debut solo album by Noah Dean Jordan, and the beginning of a lifelong journey into microtonal sound. Recorded at the Centro Julián Carrillo in San Luis Potosí, Mexico, the album features the rare 1/3-tone Sonido 13 piano—an instrument divided into 18 notes per octave. This was Noah’s first project recorded abroad, supported by his first grant, and marks the origin of his solo voice as both pianist and tuning explorer.
Entirely improvised, the album ventures into a system untethered from traditional harmonic gravity—a tonal world not defined by its closeness to the harmonic series, but by its own internal logic of gesture, resonance, and decay. The Moon does not seek resolution; it circles, reflects, drifts. It is music made of atmospheres and absences, where pitch becomes texture and harmony dissolves into constellation.
Noah Dean Jordan 