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== Microtonal organizations ==
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* [http://bostonmicrotonalsociety.org/ Boston Microtonal Society] — founded 1998; permanent chamber ensemble NotaRiotous founded 2005; spring and fall concerts.
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* British Harry Partch Society (????-????)
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* [http://www.iaauralarts.org/ Institute for the Advancement of Aural Arts] (IAAA) — [[Ron_Sword|Ron Sword]]'s lecture collective.
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* [http://oddmusicuc.wordpress.com/ OddMusic Urbana-Champaign] (Illinois) — instrument-building, scale-building composers collective, with emphasis on face-to-face musical meetings.
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* [http://www.donaldbousted.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/index.htm Microtonal Projects Ltd.] (UK) — founded 2004 by Drs. Bousted.
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* [http://microtonalismo.com/proyecto-xvii Project XVII] (Lima-Perú) — 17 edo and microtonal harmony.
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* [http://www.huygens-fokker.org/index_en.html Huygens-Fokker Foundation] — English version
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* [http://www.huygens-fokker.org/index_en.html Stichting Huygens-Fokker (Amsterdam)]  — promoting especially 31-tone music, well-maintained website with increasingly frequent events! — Dutch version
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* The [[Xenharmonic Alliance]] (c. 1958-active) — [[Ivor_Darreg|Ivor Darreg]]'s mail-driven network of exchanging microtonal music and ideas, which gradually morphed into an online social group.
* [http://untwelve.org/ UnTwelve] (Chicago) — a Midwest-based project offering concerts, listening parties, and a composition competition.
* [http://www.worldharmonyproject.com/ World Harmony Project] (Florida, most active 1992-2005) — world music with [[Denny_Genovese|Denny Genovese]]'s just intonation [[percussion]] orchestra.
* [http://www.ekmelic-music.org/en Ekmelic Music Society/Gesellschaft für Ekmelische Musik] (Austria), main focus is on 72edo, overtone music.
 
== Microtonal festivals and events ==
 
* [http://afmm.org/ American Festival of Microtonal Music] (New York) — festival founded by [[Johnny_Reinhard|Johnny Reinhard]] in 1981(?). See also PITCH label.
* [http://www.microfest.org/ Microfest] (LA area) — Annual festival founded in 1997.
* [http://www.thingamajigs.org/ Music for People and Thingamajigs Festival] (Bay area) — Annual festival founded in 1997, focused on odd instruments and tunings.
* [http://justintonation.net/ Just Intonation Network] (Bay Area) — in need of assistance in organizing since spring 2006!
* [[MMMday06|MMMDay06]] (internet, 4/8/2006) — a convergence of microtonal music making. Final product: a podcast.
* [http://bohlen-pierce-conference.org/ Bohlen–Pierce Symposium] (Boston, 2010) — first symposium on the [[Bohlen–Pierce scale]].
* [http://www.kibla.org/en/festivals/danes/ Festival (Da)(Ne)S 2011] (Slovenia) — this edition of KIBLA's festival focused on microtonality. Organized by [[Cameron_Bobro|Cameron Bobro]].
* [[Microtonal Design Unconference 2011]]
* [[Xenharmonic_Praxis_Summer_Camp|Xenharmonic Praxis Summer Camp]] (West Virginia) — Summer camp for microtonal composition and performance started in 2011.
* [[MMMMonth 2023]] - May revival initiative led by [[JacobBarton]] and whomever else steps up
 
== Microtonal Record Labels ==
 
* [http://split-notes.com/ split-notes] — Microtonal-with-a-beat Netlabel.
* Microtonal Record Shelf (?)
* [http://xen-arts.net Xen-Arts] — Microtonal Netlabel
* [http://spectropol.com/ Spectropol] — small-run/netlabel; not exclusively microtonal but very xen-heavy
 
== Microtonal media, publishing, archives ==
 
* [http://ronsword.bigcartel.com/ IAAA Webstore] — guitar scale books by [[Ron_Sword|Ron Sword]]
* [http://www.frogpeak.org/ Frog Peak] — artist-run composers' collective dedicated to publishing and producing experimental and unusual works.
* [http://anaphoria.com/ The North American Embassy of Anaphoria Island] archives of Microtonal materials including [[Erv_Wilson|Erv Wilson]], [[Joel_Mandelbaum|Joel Mandelbaum]], and [[Kraig_Grady|Kraig Grady]]
* [http://web.archive.org/web/20011007002753/www.geocities.com/jacky_ligon/TMA_Info.htm The Microtonal Activist] (2001) — an e-zine by Jacky Ligon.
* [https://www.xenharmonikon.org/ Xenharmonikon] Online magazine launched in 2018. Editors include Bill Alves, Kraig Grady, and more. Follows [http://xh.xentonic.org/ ''Xenharmonikôn''], a journal founded by John Chalmers in 1974.
 
== Instrument-focused projects ==
 
* [[Microtonal_Guitar|http://www.tolgahancogulu.com/en/microtonal-guitar/]] Tolgahan <span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Çoğulu's microtonal guitar research, adjustable frets are used, cooperation with John Schnieder:</span>
* http://www.otherminds.org/shtml/Schneider.shtml
* [http://microtonaltrumpet.com/ Microtonal Trumpet]
* [http://www.quartertonemarimba.com/ Quartertone Marimba] (Oslo, 2004-2008) — Ph.D. project by Kjell Tore Innervik
* [[SeventeenTonePianoProject|SeventeenTonePianoProject]] (Houston, 2006-2008) — four concertst using pianos tuned to 17 equal divisions of the octave.
* [http://www.sfoxclarinets.com/bpclar.html Bohlen–Pierce Clarinet Project] — by Stephen Fox.
* [http://www.c21-orch-instrs.demon.co.uk/ Alternative Tuning Projects] (London, 1998) — Patrick Ozzard-Low's study and proposal for 21st-Century Orchestral Instruments.
* [[User:SAKryukov#Microtonal_Music_Study_using_specialized_chromatic_keyboards_and_Web_Audio_API|Microtonal Music Study using specialized chromatic keyboards and Web Audio API]], a set of microtonal electronic keyboard instruments implementing different microtonal systems and build on the common platform, Web-browser based, with the embedded instrument sound synthesis based on Web Audio API. The instruments are played on a 10-finger touchscreen, but also can be played with a mouse/touchpad and, in some cases and to a limited extent, on a computer keyboard. There is an application for the development of the synthesized instrument sound; the result of the synthesis can be used by all the instruments.
 
== Mini-initiatives on this wiki ==
* [[ProgressReport]]: tell your story!
* [[Tuning of the Month Club]] (Discord)
* [[Monthly Tunings]] (Facebook)
* [[MMMMonth07|MMMMonth07]] — a proposal/brainstorm that wasn't acted upon.
* [[Porcupine_Album_Project|Porcupine Album Project]] (2012)
* [[The Enigma Assignment]]: resulted in much original music
 
=== WikiProjects ===
* [[Xenharmonic Wiki:Wikifuture|Wikifuture]], for general long-term plans for the wiki.
* [[Xenharmonic Wiki:WikiProject TempClean|WikiProject TempClean]], for the cleanup of our deluge of regular temperament articles.
* [[Xenharmonic Wiki:WikiProject Mospage|WikiProject Mospage]], for a similar cleanup effort for MOS-related articles
 
== Sisters to Microtonality ==
* Electroacoustic music
* Non-western musics
* DIY instrument making (including oddmusic and junkmusic)
* A capella music (including barbershop)
* Music therapy / spiritual music / meditative music
* Derriere-garde music (alternate-history, neo- )
* Overtone music (see the [http://overtone.cc Overtone Music Network])
 
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