Projects: Difference between revisions

Revision as of 07:23, 4 December 2024

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

Boston Microtonal Society — founded 1998; permanent chamber ensemble NotaRiotous founded 2005; spring and fall concerts.
British Harry Partch Society (????-????)
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
The Xenharmonic Alliance (c. 1958-active) — Ivor Darreg's mail-driven network of exchanging microtonal music and ideas, which gradually morphed into an online social group.
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.

American Festival of Microtonal Music (New York) — festival founded by Johnny Reinhard in 1981(?). See also PITCH label.
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.
Just Intonation Network (Bay Area) — in need of assistance in organizing since spring 2006!
Microfest (LA area) — Annual festival founded in 1997.
MMMDay06 (internet, 4/8/2006) — a convergence of microtonal music making. Final product: a podcast.
Music for People and Thingamajigs Festival (Bay area) — Annual festival founded in 1997, focused on odd instruments and tunings.
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

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.

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.

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

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 * The [[Xenharmonic Alliance]] (c. 1958-active) &mdash; [[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) &mdash; a Midwest-based project offering concerts, listening parties, and a composition competition.
-* [http://www.worldharmonyproject.com/ World Harmony Project] (Florida, most active 1992-2005) &mdash; world music with [[Denny_Genovese|Denny Genovese]]'s just intonation percussion orchestra.
+* [http://www.worldharmonyproject.com/ World Harmony Project] (Florida, most active 1992-2005) &mdash; 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.