Projects

These categories are somewhat arbitrary; many of these projects are multi-faceted.

Projects involving this wiki

WikiProjects

WikiProjects are major ongoing initiatives to improve key areas of the wiki. They are similar to Wikipedia WikiProjects.

• Wikifuture, for general long-term plans for the wiki.
• WikiProject TempClean, for the cleanup of our deluge of regular temperament articles.
• WikiProject Mospage, for a similar cleanup effort for MOS-related articles.
• WikiProject Just Intonation, to make the wiki's coverage of just intonation topics more expansive.

Other projects involving the Xen Wiki community

Smaller in scope than WikiProjects, but still well worth a look.

• ProgressReport: tell your story!
• The Enigma Assignment: resulted in much original music
• Porcupine Album Project (2012)
• MMMMonth07 — a proposal/brainstorm that wasn't acted upon.

Microtonal organizations

• The Xenharmonic Alliance (active c. 1958-present) — Ivor Darreg's mail-driven network of exchanging microtonal music and ideas, which gradually morphed into an online social group.
  • Tuning of the Month Club (channel in Discord server) (active 2023-present)
  • Monthly Tunings (Facebook group) (active 2016-present)
• Boston Microtonal Society — founded 1998 (permanent chamber ensemble NotaRiotous founded 2005; spring and fall concerts).
• British Harry Partch Society — founded c. 1994 by Brian Apter & Roger Merrick according to Didaskalia (not currently active)
• Institute for the Advancement of Aural Arts (IAAA) — Ron Sword's lecture collective.
• OddMusic Urbana-Champaign (Illinois) — instrument-building, scale-building composers collective, with emphasis on face-to-face musical meetings.
• Microtonal Projects Ltd. (UK) — founded 2004 by Drs. Bousted.
• Project XVII (Lima-Perú) — 17 edo and microtonal harmony.
• Huygens-Fokker Foundation — English version
• Stichting Huygens-Fokker (Amsterdam) — promoting especially 31-tone music, well-maintained website with increasingly frequent events! — Dutch version
• UnTwelve (Chicago) — a Midwest-based project offering concerts, listening parties, and a composition competition.
• World Harmony Project (Florida, most active 1992-2005) — world music with Denny Genovese's just intonation percussion orchestra.
• Ekmelic Music Society/Gesellschaft für Ekmelische Musik (Austria), main focus is on 72edo, overtone music.

Microtonal festivals and events

• American Festival of Microtonal Music (New York) — festival founded by Johnny Reinhard in 1981(?). See also PITCH label.
• Microfest (LA area) — Annual festival founded in 1997.
• Music for People and Thingamajigs Festival (Bay area) — Annual festival founded in 1997, focused on odd instruments and tunings.
• Just Intonation Network (Bay Area) — in need of assistance in organizing since spring 2006!
• MMMDay06 (internet, 4/8/2006) — a convergence of microtonal music making. Final product: a podcast.
• Bohlen–Pierce Symposium (Boston, 2010) — first symposium on the Bohlen–Pierce scale.
• Festival (Da)(Ne)S 2011 (Slovenia) — this edition of KIBLA's festival focused on microtonality. Organized by Cameron Bobro.
• Microtonal Design Unconference 2011
• 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

• split-notes — Microtonal-with-a-beat Netlabel.
• Microtonal Record Shelf (?)
• Xen-Arts — Microtonal Netlabel
• Spectropol — small-run/netlabel; not exclusively microtonal but very xen-heavy

Microtonal media, publishing, archives

• IAAA Webstore — guitar scale books by Ron Sword
• Frog Peak — artist-run composers' collective dedicated to publishing and producing experimental and unusual works.
• The North American Embassy of Anaphoria Island archives of Microtonal materials including Erv Wilson, Joel Mandelbaum, and Kraig Grady
• The Microtonal Activist (2001) — an e-zine by Jacky Ligon.
• Xenharmonikon Online magazine launched in 2018. Editors include Bill Alves, Kraig Grady, and more. Follows Xenharmonikôn, a journal founded by John Chalmers in 1974.

Instrument-focused projects

• http://www.tolgahancogulu.com/en/microtonal-guitar/ Tolgahan Çoğulu's microtonal guitar research, adjustable frets are used, cooperation with John Schnieder:
  • http://www.otherminds.org/shtml/Schneider.shtml
• Microtonal Trumpet
• Quartertone Marimba (Oslo, 2004-2008) — Ph.D. project by Kjell Tore Innervik
• SeventeenTonePianoProject (Houston, 2006-2008) — four concertst using pianos tuned to 17 equal divisions of the octave.
• Bohlen–Pierce Clarinet Project — by Stephen Fox.
• Alternative Tuning Projects (London, 1998) — Patrick Ozzard-Low's study and proposal for 21st-Century Orchestral Instruments.
• 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.

Sisters to microtonality

• Electroacoustic music
• Non-western musics (see r/GlobalMusicTheory)
• 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 Overtone Music Network)