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Microtonal acoustic or electronic performances need not consist of specifically defined discrete notes; microtonal tone-complexes and clusters or clouds of notes can be produced by gestures. For example, many of Tom Nunn's and Bart Hopkins' and Trimpin's and Q.R. Ghazala's microtonal instruments generate sweeps of sound in response to continuous movements, pressures or manipulations with a bow or stick or hand. Notations for these instruments are often gestural in nature. Similar gestures repeated on the same section of an electroacoustic or acoustic microtonal instrument whose components resonate or interact electronically will often produce distinctly microtonal and reproducibly similar sets of pitches. Such notations typically place more emphasis on the mode of excitation, the object used, and the exact spot on the instrument stroked or bowed, than on the pitch produced.

Microtonalists who use such notations typically invent new instruments based on resonant or gestural principles. Such microtonalists include Jacques Dudon (who employs sequencer disks in his photoelectric synthesizer to control the operation of the other discs) Bart Hopkins, Jonathan Glasier, Tom Nunn, Q.R. Ghazala, Trimpin, Iannis Xenakis (in his UPIC system), Donald Buchla (in his Lightning series of digital sensors) and others.

Microtonalists who use such notations typically invent new instruments based on resonant or gestural principles. Such microtonalists include Jacques Dudon (who employs sequencer disks in his photoelectric synthesizer to control the operation of the other discs) Bart Hopkins, Jonathan Glasier, Tom Nunn, Q.R. Ghazala, Trimpin, [[Iannis Xenakis]] (in his UPIC system), Donald Buchla (in his Lightning series of digital sensors) and others.

===Procedural strategies===

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 Microtonal acoustic or electronic performances need not consist of specifically defined discrete notes; microtonal tone-complexes and clusters or clouds of notes can be produced by gestures. For example, many of Tom Nunn's and Bart Hopkins' and Trimpin's and Q.R. Ghazala's microtonal instruments generate sweeps of sound in response to continuous movements, pressures or manipulations with a bow or stick or hand. Notations for these instruments are often gestural in nature. Similar gestures repeated on the same section of an electroacoustic or acoustic microtonal instrument whose components resonate or interact electronically will often produce distinctly microtonal and reproducibly similar sets of pitches. Such notations typically place more emphasis on the mode of excitation, the object used, and the exact spot on the instrument stroked or bowed, than on the pitch produced.
-Microtonalists who use such notations typically invent new instruments based on resonant or gestural principles. Such microtonalists include Jacques Dudon (who employs sequencer disks in his photoelectric synthesizer to control the operation of the other discs) Bart Hopkins, Jonathan Glasier, Tom Nunn, Q.R. Ghazala, Trimpin, Iannis Xenakis (in his UPIC system), Donald Buchla (in his Lightning series of digital sensors) and others.
+Microtonalists who use such notations typically invent new instruments based on resonant or gestural principles. Such microtonalists include Jacques Dudon (who employs sequencer disks in his photoelectric synthesizer to control the operation of the other discs) Bart Hopkins, Jonathan Glasier, Tom Nunn, Q.R. Ghazala, Trimpin, [[Iannis Xenakis]] (in his UPIC system), Donald Buchla (in his Lightning series of digital sensors) and others.
 ===Procedural strategies===