Xenharmonic Alliance

The Xenharmonic Alliance (XA), originally Xenharmonic Music Alliance, is a social group initiated by Ivor Darreg and Glen Prior around 1958 in Los Angeles, California.

In the beginning, the group held a series of meetings devoted to performing on new musical instruments and demonstrating xenharmonic scales. After Darreg and Prior had to move away from Los Angeles, the group kept going by correspondence, long-distance phoning and various publications. The group expanded as new members from across the United States, Canada, Mexico and abroad gradually joined the group. Several projects were born from these exchanges, such as the Sonic Arts center and the Interval journal.

More recently, the group expanded to the whole world through multiple online platforms. A Facebook group was created in 2007, with several more specialized ones created later on (detailed at Links#Facebook groups). An IRC chatroom was also created at some point, although it is mostly inactive nowadays as users moved to a Discord server, also called "Xenharmonic Alliance", created in 2017.

The Xenharmonic Alliance as possible ally to other Alliances etc.

• The Xenrhythm Alliance (on Wika wikifarm) (2016?-present)
• The Allied side (versus Axis) in World War II (1939-1945)
• The Allies (vs. the "Dark Side") in the Star Wars verse (A long, long time ago)
• Further propositions on the Beyond The Xenverse Discord server (2024-present?)
• the LGBTQIA+BIPOC Alliance in the multiversal (and propositional) Woke Mind Wars (2019?-present)
• specifically and currently, the mediators of RTT vs. JI within the Xenharmonic Flame Wars (1992-present)
• in academia: the schools, conservatories, and departments of Music of any kind, including specifically electronic and electro-acoustic music (of which much electronic xenharmonic music is a subset given the tools so often used, and, secondarily but still crucially, acoustics/architecture
• The original Xenharmonic Music Alliance mailing list, which Gary Morrison or Glen Prior may yet have a copy

Fig. 1 These were made by architecture students!

Further less formal connections to XA

• Many video game fan communities, especially those dedicated to Chiptune music creation, MOD files and tracker music, midi transcriptions
• Youtube channels dedicated primarily to music, such as
  • Adam Neely
  • xenpilled (Gordon Wery)
  • Jacob Collier
  • Stephen Weigel
  • many other transcription and Multitrack artists
• Fan clubs and communities of microtonal artists (Zhea Erose, DotuXil, many downtown NYC artists)
• Microtonal Record Shelf, Brian McLaren's completely off-internet, snailmail record label

See also

• Xenharmonic Wiki

External links

• "Xenharmonic Music Alliance" on Sonic Arts
• IRC chatroom on Libera Chat