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| '''Aaron Andrew Hunt''' is the sole proprietor of [http://hpi.zentral.zone/?en Hπ Instruments]. He invents and designs all Hπ products, functionally, aesthetically, and physically, and builds them all by hand. Since 1996, he has dedicated himself to building tools to explore what he believes to be the most fundamental frontier still existing in music — pitch. | | '''Aaron Andrew Hunt''' is a composer and teacher of counterpoint, the inventor of the Tonal Plexus [[keyboard]] and several other microtonal devices, and developer of [[software]] for microtonal music available through [http://hpi.zentral.zone/?en Hπ Instruments]. His microtonal work is based on a combination of ancient tuning theory and modern research in psychoacoustics and data visualization (see ''Hunt system'' in the [[#Theory]] section). |
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| === CV === | | == Music == |
| 2006 - present: Founder and Sole Proprietor of H-Pi Instruments
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| 2002 - 2007: Instructor of Music Theory and Composition at Eastern Illinois University
| | Hunt's music, including ''The Equal-Tempered Keyboard'', a collection of microtonal preludes and fugues in every [[equal division of the octave]] between 5 and 20 tones, is published through [https://zwillinge.zentral.zone/katalog?en Zwillinge Verlag]. |
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| <ul><li>Courses Taught: Music Theory and Aural Training (all levels), Composition, Counterpoint (Bach style), Music Analysis (17th-19th Century), Electronic Music</li></ul>2000 - 2002: Independent Scholar, Chicago Illinois
| | Recordings can be found at Bandcamp (see [[#External links]]). |
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| 1999: PhD Studies in Music Composition at the University of Minnesota
| | == Theory == |
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| <ul><li>Studied Musics of the Balkan Region with Miriana Lausevic</li></ul>1999: Instructor of Music Theory and Composition at Eastern Illinois University
| | * The '''[http://musictheory.zentral.zone/huntsystem1.html Hunt system]''' is a comprehensive microtonal [[notation]] system in which all possible pitches and intervals are named with a 1-to-1 correspondence to a keyboard instrument (the Tonal Plexus) and 1-to-1 correspondence to notes on a staff, in which microtonal accidentals are not necessary. |
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| 1997 - 1999: Freelance teacher, recording engineer, graphic designer and pipe organ tuner
| | == External links == |
| | * [http://aah.zentral.zone/ Official website] |
| | * [https://aaronandrewhunt.bandcamp.com/ Bandcamp profile] |
| | * [https://soundcloud.com/aaronandrewhunt SoundCloud profile] |
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| 1996: U.S. Patent 5,582,410 Multi-Player Chess Game, Issued December 10, 1996.
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| 1996: Pipe Organ Technician with Goulding & Wood, Inc., Indianapolis Indiana
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| <ul><li>Pipe organ tuning, temperament setting, installation and maintanence</li><li>Woodworking, electrical wiring / soldering</li></ul>1994 - 1996: Masters Degree in Music Composition from the College-Conservatory of Music at the University of Cincinatti
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| <ul><li>Winner of the 1995 AGO/Holtkamp composition prize: Fantasia and Fugue on St. Theodulph for pipe organ [link]</li><li>Composition Teachers: Samuel Adler, Sylvia Bodorova, John McCabe, Marta Ptaszynska, and Allen Sapp</li><li>Organ: David Mulbury, Kevin Ballard, Leon Couch III; Viol: James Lambert</li><li>Thesis: Diatonic Inversional Theory</li></ul>
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| Some of Hunt's compositions can be found at [http://www.h-pi.com/musicFiles.html http://www.h-pi.com/musicFiles.html] (dead link) (some microtonal/xenharmonic pieces are available on [https://soundcloud.com/uz1kt3k SoundCloud])
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