Maeve Gutierrez

Maeve Gutierrez is a producer of microtonal hyperpop, ambient and other experimental electronic music. In her music, she has explored 27edo, 31edo and various just intonation scales among other tunings. She is also a music theorist who extensively uses Scale Workshop.

Discography and socials

• Maeve Gutierrez on Instagram
• Maeve Gutierrez on Apple Music

Invented scales

6ed7/3+7edo scale

Main article: 6ed7/3 § 6ed7/3+7edo scale

Moonglade scale

In a public post on the Xenharmonic Alliance Discord server, in September 2025, Gutierrez described the 24-tone scale she used in her piece 'Moonglade'.

This was the post:

"

i would like to share a custom scale i made (& used in my song "moonglade" which is on all distrokid-supported streaming platforms, in the ep "luna" by maeve gutierrez (me)). i focused mainly on shimmery intervals/textures like wolf tones and commas, but also included some pure/JI consonances & there is also plenty of dissonance/tension available

alot of the intervals also exist between intervals: flat whole tone is a -14 comma lower than the whole tone, the harmonic major chord triad (+0,+386,+969) has a natural +583 tritone between the 3rd and 7th, etc!

obviously if anyone wants 2 use it u can!! i dont own the intervals!!! its a fun scale to play with for harmony/thick chords

(moonglade is a very old word that means the moonlight shining on oceans, lakes etc)

"

This is the scale in cents:

• 14.
• 88.
• 187.
• 201.
• 289.
• 311.
• 386.
• 498.
• 520.
• 583.
• 680.
• 702.
• 716.
• 787.
• 867.
• 884.
• 969.
• 991.
• 1013.
• 1066.
• 1076.
• 1102.
• 1178.
• 1200.

Edos that approximate the Moonglade scale especially well for their size include:

• 64, 72, 78, 80, 84, 90, 107, 120, 144, 162, 186, 258, 270...

Detempering in 19-limit just intonation:

• 121/120 — 20/19 — 10/9 — 9/8 — 13/11 — 6/5 — 5/4 — 4/3 — 23/17 — 7/5 — 40/27 — 3/2 — 50/33 — 11/7 — 33/20 — 5/3 — 7/4 — 23/13 — 9/5 — 224/121 — 13/7 — 17/9 — 65/33 — 2/1
• (identical to original scale within 5 ¢)

When tempered to 72edo, the step pattern for the Moonglade scale is:

• 1 4 6 1 5 2 4 7 1 4 6 1 1 4 5 1 5 1 2 3 1 1 5 1
• (identical to original scale within 8 ¢)

When tempered to 270edo, the step pattern for the Moonglade scale is:

• 3 17 22 3 20 5 17 25 5 14 22 5 3 16 18 4 19 5 5 12 2 6 17 5
• (identical to original scale within 1 ¢)

Gutierrez-Lambeth quasi-subharmonic pentatonic

In a public post on the Xenharmonic Alliance Discord server, in September 2025, Gutierrez described the 4-tone JI chord 7/6 - 40/27 - 11/5 - 7/2.

In a reply, Budjarn Lambeth noted that the shape of the step pattern looked like the subharmonic series, and adding a 6/1 would preserve this shape.

Gutierrez thought the 6/1 was a great addition and resolved to use this scale/chord in a future piece.

Its intervals are:

• 7/6
• 40/27
• 11/5
• 7/2
• 6/1

Ed6s with especially good approximations of this scale for their size are:

• 23, 36, 46, 59, 69, 70, 72, 73, 79, 82, 96, 104, 113, 114, 127, 137, 150...

Edos with especially good approximations of this scale for their size are:

• 27, 37, 46, 53, 58, 67, 72, 94, 108, 109, 118, 125...

Octave-reduced variant

This works well in the same edos the regular scale does. You can choose to keep or leave the 3/2 (reduced 6/1):

• 11/10
• 7/6
• 40/27
• 3/2 (optional)
• 7/4
• 2/1

When tempered to 37edo, the step pattern for the reduced scale is:

• 5 3 13 9 7
• (identical to original scale within 7.5 ¢)

When tempered to 58edo, the step pattern for the reduced scale is:

• 8 5 20 14 11
• (identical to original scale within 4 ¢)

When tempered to 67edo, the step pattern for the reduced scale is:

• 9 6 23 16 13
• (identical to original scale within 4 ¢)

When tempered to 72edo, the step pattern for the reduced scale is:

• 10 6 25 17 14
• (identical to original scale within 3 ¢)