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A list originally started by Andrew Heathwaite. If you think anything should be changed, change it yourself! Or leave a note about it here.
For a list of pieces that were originally written in a non-xenharmonic context, and then translated into a xenharmonic tuning, see Familiar melodies in unfamiliar tunings.
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I. Artists
| Composer(s) | LINKS | People | Description / Genres/ Keywords | Admin Recommendation
to start with |
Hometown (if known) | Years microtonally active | Additional Notes |
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| Bill Alves | Website | electronic JI, gamelan, etc. Different tunings on different songs. | Imbal-Imbalan | Claremont, California | long time. Still active. (got start date?) | College professor,
author | |
| Atar Arad | Sonata for Viola with quartertones | ||||||
| Astroid power-up! | clips of hyper drum&bass. Microtonal tracks: 3, 4, 8 and 9 (60-EDO) | ||||||
B | |||||||
| Christopher Bailey | crystallized JI, 17-EDO, 19-EDO, 7-limit adaptive | ||||||
| Mike Battaglia | SoundCloud | various EDOs, chamber music (?) | "Natural"-sounding Porcupine Comma Pump Experiments | (a.k.a. Bugs, a.k.a. The Bugs) | |||
| Matt Barber | in some pieces, 19-ED(per 2:1 and 3:1), quartertones, 11-EDO and 14-EDO in 3:2 equivalence | ||||||
| Jacob Barton | sequenced and acoustic, various EDO and JI | ||||||
| Dennis Báthory-Kitsz | "Thièle" - violin in quartertones | ||||||
| David Beardsley | JI electric guitar and JI chamber music. | ||||||
| Antoine Beaudet | Joan temperament, JI, electronic | ||||||
| BipTunia | Website | Michael W. Dean: synths, singing, talking.
Phil Wormuth: poetry, talking. |
Rock, pop, experimental, poetry with music, different tunings on every song. Prolific. | Disco Demolition Man and Pigeon 911 | Casper Wyoming | 2018- | MWD is User:SyntheticThought
on this wiki. MWD also makes xen VST software. |
| Marcus Alessi Bittencourt | classic electronic pan-intonational | ||||||
| Easley Blackwood | microtonal etudes [excerpts] | ||||||
| Doug Blumeyer | SoundCloud | San Francisco | |||||
| M. Edward Borasky | stochastic JI | ||||||
| Donald Bousted | microtonal music and film | ||||||
| Graham Breed | electronic with spoken word; examples of different temperaments | ||||||
| Chris Bryan | various | ||||||
| Brendan Byrnes | website | Brendan Byrnes + various side players. | Great production.
Progressive,rock, driving, good vocals. Is also in band ILEVENS (separate entry below) |
Siolas | Los Angeles / Glendale | Great first xen for many people. | |
| Warren Burt (flashing images warning) | sound installation; manipulated voice... | ||||||
| Brendan Byrnes | Pop/rock composer and singer based in southern California, with works in 22edo, JI, and a variety of other tunings | Siolas | |||||
C | |||||||
| Charles Loli | mp3 drone 17-EDO, 20-EDO, 29-EDO and 53-EDO | ||||||
| Alex Carpenter | exploring the perceptual passage into sound | ||||||
| Catler Bros. | 64-note JI bluesrock | ||||||
| City of the Asleep | Electronica, post-rock, and unclassifiable music in a variety of tunings, especially uncommon EDOs and theoretically-discordant tunings | ||||||
| Nick Collins | microtonal supercollider tempo canons | ||||||
| William Copper | music in 5-limit JI, printed scores with intonation markings, intonalism | ||||||
| Mildred Couper | quartertone pianos - scores & mp3 | ||||||
| Cryptic Ruse | Jason Yerger | instrumental progressive metal & drone-metal in 13edo, 14edo, 15edo, 17edo, and 23edo | Jason is IgliashonJones on this wiki. | ||||
| David J. Cubberly | sequenced microtonal midi ensemble | ||||||
D | |||||||
| Phil Dadson | instruments in JI, Installations and performance | ||||||
| Janis Dambergs | drone 31-EDO | ||||||
| Ivor Darreg | Wikipedia
Live in Glendale (180 minutes) Remaster of Live in Glendale (torrent) Info on huygens-fokkersite |
Helped found the Xenharmonic Alliance. (Now on Facebook)
There isn't a ton of Ivor's music online, but Johnny Reinhard has about 30 cassett tapes of Ivor given to Johnny by Ivor, with the instructions to get it out to the world. Johnny will be rolling these out in the coming years. |
Detwelvulate! | San Diego, Los Angeles | Born in 1917.
Made microtonal music from 1937 (per this bio) or 1936 (according to this auto-bio) until his death in 1994. |
"Grandaddy of xenharmonic music."
Coined the term "xenharmonic". Prolific builder of microtonal instruments. Ivor has a VST microtonal synth named after him. | |
| Jarod DCamp | electronic - various tunings | ||||||
| Tútim Dennsuul | clips in 23-EDO | ||||||
| Mark Deutsch | clips of sensual acoustic microtonal music, world influence | ||||||
| Divide by Pi | mp3 clips: synthesizer and percussion improvisations | ||||||
| Paul Dolden | mp3 clips - variously tuned electroacoustic | ||||||
| David B. Doty | synth JI | ||||||
| Arnold Dreyblatt | grooving JI | ||||||
| Dsilton Trio | Website
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Georg Vogel: Clavinet, Synthesizer, Komposition. David Dornig: 31-Ton E-Gitarre.
Valentin Duit: Schlagzeug. |
odd time signatures, chamber influence, jazz influence. 31edo. | Duschscha | Vienna, Austria | 2015- | |
| Jacques Dudon | samples of "Lumières audibles" JI electronic | ||||||
| Richard Dunlap | mostly 12-EDO but try title song | ||||||
E | |||||||
| Paul Erlich | 22-EDO guitar | ||||||
F | |||||||
| John Farah | string quartet in Maqam Rast; Water.mp3 (Electronic in 19-EDO) | ||||||
| David J. Finnamore | etudes using "golden horograms"; clips of dirty 13-EDO guitar | ||||||
| Daniel Forro | |||||||
| Harold Fortuin | brief excerpts, microtonal and otherwise | ||||||
| Greg Fox | indeterminate computer music in 11-EDO, 13-EDO and 19-EDO | ||||||
| Glenn R. Frantz | freestyle JI via computer, based on ragtime music | ||||||
G | |||||||
| Kyle Gann | xenharmonic JI, now with more Sitting Bull! | ||||||
| Monroe Golden | microtonal chamber music, microtone-informed 12-EDO | ||||||
| The Gongs | The Gongs
Rob Reich (full length album on Youtube) |
Peter Blasser
Clara Latham Grisha Krivchenia Stefan Tcherepnin |
Oberlin, OH | 2001-2002 | First song on this, and whole record. | ||
| Mark Gould | 1 electronic mp3: 10-EDO; midi recorder duets in 19-EDO | ||||||
| Kraig Grady | Original acoustic instruments/ensembles informed by the music of anaphoria Island | ||||||
| Patrick Grant | |||||||
| Paul Greenhaw | Just-tuned electric organs -- most pieces accompany video works. | ||||||
| Peter Guidi | one track of quartertone flute | ||||||
| Milan Guštar | music in various tunings (06-EDO, 07-EDO, 08-EDO, 12-EDO, JI) | ||||||
H | |||||||
| Edu Haubensak | Music for retuned pianos and retuned strings | ||||||
| Georg Hajdu | electronic 17-EDO; scene from opera Der Sprung (Bohlen-Pierce) | ||||||
| Jeff Harrington | electronic in 19-EDO, 24-EDO, others | ||||||
| Lou Harrison | Nek Chand for solo guitar in JI | ||||||
| Robert Hasegawa | Acoustic chamber JI, quartertones, 19-tone pianos, with scores | ||||||
| Neil Haverstick | excerpts - guitars in 19-EDO, 31-EDO and 34-EDO | ||||||
| Andrew Heathwaite | SoundClick | electronic xenharmonic improvisations | |||||
| Jim Horton and Bill Thibault (broken) | electronic microtonal | ||||||
| Sten Hostfalt | excerpts of microtonal guitar (72-EDO) | ||||||
| Horse Lords | Bandcamp | Sam Haberman
Max Eilbacher Owen Gardner Andrew Bernstein |
Just intonation, polyrhythm, minimalist, musique concrète | Mix Tape | Baltimore, MD | 2012- | |
| Chuckk Hubbard | JI sequenced music etc. | ||||||
| Peter Lucas Hulen | modern classical electronic compositions - search page for 'microtonal' | ||||||
I | |||||||
| ILEVENS | Bandcamp | Brendan Byrnes - Vocals, Guitar
Mike Horick - Drums Lauren Davis - Synths Rusty Kennedy - Bass |
22edo rock band, led by Brendan Byrnes | Drowns | Los Angeles | 2015- | |
J | |||||||
| Ralph Jarzombek | electronic 14-EDO from '80s | ||||||
| Aaron Krister Johnson | mostly electronic compositions and improvisations; some theatre incidental music | ||||||
| JC & The Microtones | Cowpeople | Bassoon – [[Johnny Reinhard]]
Electric Bass – Brad Catler Electric Guitar – [[John Catler]] Percussion – A. C. Lewis Vocals – Deborah Rothrock |
New York City | 1984 | rockabilly, 31edo, cowpunk | ||
| Jock Tears | Bandcamp | Lauren Ray - vocals
Lauren Smith - bass Spencer Hargreaves - guitar Dustin Bromley - drum |
best punk band name ever | Nasty Boy | Vancouver, BC | ?- current (I emailed them to ask starting year.) | Peppy punk rock, female vocals, 17 edo, |
| Christiaan de Jong | mp3 clip - flute and tape | ||||||
| Magnus Jonsson | acoustic and electronic JI and meantone improvisations and compositions | ||||||
| Churzkia Jrakavla | hip electronic JI | ||||||
K | |||||||
| Buzz Kimball | homemade guitars etc. in EDOs and JI | ||||||
| dt King | "Change Jar" for quartertone piano | ||||||
| Wayne Kirby | demos, full and excerpts, mp3 and midi | ||||||
| Kenneth Kirschner | looong mp3 of stretched piano etc. ambient microtonal | ||||||
| King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard | Flying Microtonal Banana | Stu Mackenzie
Ambrose Kenny Smith Joey Walker Cook Craig Lucas Skinner Michael Cavanagh Eric Moore |
Sleep Drifter (live in radio station studio) | Melbourne, Australia | 2017 | 24edo, alternative, garage | |
| Kite (aka Tall Kite) | 7-limit JI music | ||||||
| Eric Knechtges | acoustic (choir) & electronic, various JI & EDOs | ||||||
L | |||||||
| Anne La Berge | quartertone flute - go to "Releases" | ||||||
| Last Sacrament | 16edo death metal from Florida | ||||||
| Jacky Ligon | xenharmonic music and software blog | ||||||
| Amit Lissack | electronic instrumental | ||||||
| Alvin Lucier | slow-to-change cluster acoustic | ||||||
| Charles Lucy | miscellaneous works in progress - also see LucyTuning below | ||||||
M | |||||||
| Joe Maneri | some modern classical excerpts - mp3 | ||||||
| Rick McGowan | microtonal works for the theatre | ||||||
| John McLaird | 07-EDO, 40-EDO, 11-limit JI, etc. sampled piano etc. | ||||||
| Pete McRae | Eikosany blues | ||||||
| Carl McTague | (ii-V-I)^7 and Heptadecaphonic Drops | ||||||
| Claudi Meneghin | Neobaroque music at Soonlabel.com | ||||||
| The Mercury Tree | Ben Spees
Connor Reilly Oliver Campbell |
Progressive rock, psychedelic, math rock | Portland, OR | 2007 | 17edo, 23edo | ||
| Herman Miller | compositions in linear temperaments, ETs; Warped Canon | ||||||
| Shaahin Mohajeri | modal, sequenced in various EDO/ADO/EDL/AIDO/ADL | ||||||
| Joe Monzo | mp3s in JI jazz-rock style | ||||||
| John Moriarty | Rock and improv in various regularly tempered tunings | ||||||
| Frederick Moore | some microtonal works, electronic and other | ||||||
N | |||||||
| Naegleria Fowleri | Website on Google Pages | Bostjan Zupancic
Luna Bird |
"The world's first microtonal avian-fronted metal band" | III Flagellate - Propulsion | St. Johnsbury, Vermont | 2017- | Parrot singing with a xen metal project. What's not to love? |
| Ron Nagorcka | JI music with digeridoo, synthesizers, birds... | ||||||
| Juhani Nuorvala | Various tunings | ||||||
O | |||||||
| Mats Öljare | contrapuntal midi in various EDOs and etc's | ||||||
P | |||||||
| Tristan Parker | electronic JI, free-pitch | ||||||
| P-ART (Paul A.R. Timmermans) | experimental clips | ||||||
| Harry Partch | acoustic, homemade JI; monophony | ||||||
| Joseph Pehrson | acoustic and electronic, much in Blackjack tuning | ||||||
| pfly (Paul Fly) | Zlo-88 in 88-cET | ||||||
| Samuel Pellman | electronic EDOs, nonoctave, JI | ||||||
| Joseph Post | Crystal-JI acoustic guitar | ||||||
| Tom Price (broken) | electronic xenharmonic | ||||||
| Kees van Prooijen | 'Odd Piano' in Bohlen-Pierce scale, timbre-stretched piano | ||||||
| Barry Prophet | acoustic instruments/sound sculptures | ||||||
Q | |||||||
R | |||||||
| Johnny Reinhard | acoustic polymicrotonality | ||||||
| Robert Rich | some microtonal ambient (7-limit JI + The Harmonic Series) | ||||||
| Michael Robinson | worldly electronic microtonal | ||||||
| Prent Rodgers | "Music that's fake but accurate" Microtonal Music of Prent Rodgers | ||||||
| Dante Rosati | solo JI guitars | ||||||
| Robert Ross | 19-EDO flash madrigals | ||||||
S | |||||||
| Marc Sabat | mostly-acoustic mp3s in mostly JI | ||||||
| Carlos Sampaio | electronic xenharmonics | ||||||
| Scott Sandvik | slide guitar | ||||||
| Edward Schocker | dramatic works - exerpts and fulls | ||||||
| Margo Schulter | Neo-medieval Xenharmonic | ||||||
| Andrew Schulze | some mp3s of electronic JI | ||||||
| Ethan Schwartz | JI music based on tetrachords, for guitar and keyboard | ||||||
| X. J. Scott | electronic xenharmonic | ||||||
| George Secor | various vintage Scalatron performances | ||||||
| Dave Seidel | microtonal minimalism and ambience, using Csound | ||||||
| Carlo Serafini | electronic xenharmonic | ||||||
| Bill Sethares | electronic xenharmonic with stretched partials | ||||||
| Sevish | Website | Sean Archibald. (with occasional guest musicians) | drum 'n' bass / electronic / trip-hop / ambient;
in EDOs, JI, nonoctave scales and various others. microtonal: everything. "Microtonal with a beat"; stellar production quality. |
Desert Island Rain | London | 2010 onward | Popular (for xen) .
Is SeanArchibald on this wiki. Also does software tutorials on his website and on YouTube, and makes web-based xen software. Runs the digital xen label, Split-Notes Sevish is great first xen for many people. |
| Ezra Sims | Music in 72-EDO | ||||||
| Gene Ward Smith | sequenced originals; Mad Science Tuning; renderings of colleagues' music | ||||||
| Jon Lyle Smith | sequenced classical in odd meters | ||||||
| Spectral Voices | clips of meditative New Age with overtone singing | ||||||
| Soundwell (Anders Erkéus) | "Snake" overtone flute | ||||||
| Manfred Stahnke | one piece "Partch Harp" for harp and sampled harp | ||||||
| Hans-Andre Stamm | quartertone/ 48-tone JI acoustic organ! | ||||||
| John Starrett | Microtonal listening page, with two of Starrett's pieces in 19-EDO | ||||||
| Stimmhorn (Christian Zehnder, Balthasar Streiff) | Experimental alphorn and yodeling combined with overtone singing | ||||||
| Hans Straub | pieces with meters that match the tunings | ||||||
| Redrick Sultan | Bandcamp | Spencer Hargreaves - Vocals, Guitars
Noah Jordan - Vocals, Bass, Keys, Flute, Oud Sean Mitchell - Drums, Sampling |
spooky, cool, acoustic, electric. | The Prince | Vancouver, British Columbia | 2010- | 22edo, acoustic, magic rock, chill |
| Mick Sussman | plunderphonic collages in various tunings and multitempi | ||||||
| William Susman | Works in quarter-tone - scores and audio files | ||||||
| Ron Sword (2) | 16-EDO and 31-EDO on 8 and 9 string guitar Etudes, Microtonal Extreme Metal | ||||||
| Syzygys (2) | YouTube | Hitomi Shimizu = 43 microtone organ, vocals
Hiromi Nishida=Violin, vocals |
clips of Japanese duo in 43-tone Partch JI, with Chromelodeon | Lotus Rain | Japan | ? | |
T | |||||||
| Tall Kite (aka Kite) | soundcloud.com/ | Kite
Giedraitis |
7-limit JI music | "I Hear Numbers" | Portland,
Oregon USA |
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| Cam Taylor | [2] Soundcloud accounts with Bosanquet Axis49 improvisations in 31, 41, 43, 50, 53EDOs,
and songs with piano or guitar in 31EDO and JI, various. |
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| Peter Thoegersen | SoundCloud | composer.
Absurdist symphonic, chamber. Fun. Difficult music, in a good way. If you like Zappa's stranger works, you will like this. |
Two Worlds | New York (?) | |||
| Tony Dubshot | Macrotonal dub and dancehall in 05-EDO, 07-EDO and 08-EDO | ||||||
| Tritone MSU | electronic JI | ||||||
| Tui St. George Tucker | Quartertone scores | ||||||
| Stephen James Taylor | microtonal film scores, multiple Wilson scales | ||||||
| Jeroen Paul Thesseling | microtonal music for bass guitar: "HAFNIUM" (72-EDO), "ARGON" (18-EDO), "DISCREPANTIUM" (24-EDO) | ||||||
U | |||||||
| uSSSY | Bandcamp | Artem Galkin
Pavel Eremeev |
24edo, noise rock, psychedelic | Ud | Moscow, Russia | 2009- | |
V | |||||||
| Chris Vaisvil | Website | Many tunings (Just Intonation, various EDOs + Tuning Survey ) microtonal synthesizers controlled by
midi guitar (Roland GR-20), Linnstrument, 17 edo keyboard (DIY) + soft synthesizers and "traditional" scored microtonal music. |
*Prolific* explorer of a wide range of scales
Neat DIY techniques used and demonstrated "at the edge between acoustic and electric" | ||||
| Nicola Vicentino | Wikipedia | early microtonal composer in 16th century. | Musica Prisca Caput (Madrigal for 24-tone two voice harpsichord in Meantone)
Same piece played on an arciorgano. |
Born 1511 .
Died in either 1575 or 1576 |
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| Nicola Visalli (broken) | electronically rendered microtonal contemporary classical | ||||||
| Voltage Controlled | clips of electronic tuning-savvy experiments | ||||||
| Alfredo Votta | Soundcloud account featuring "Liber Stellarum", a collection of seven pieces for
13-EDO piano. Has also composed in 18-EDO. |
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| Robert Walker | classical, world, fractal | ||||||
| Stephen Weigel | xenharmonic pop / computer music / totalism | ||||||
| Danny Wier | symphonic, progressive rock/metal, jazz, etc., mostly in 72-EDO (all synth-generated) | ||||||
| Randy Winchester (2) | "Comets Over Flatland" excerpts in various EDOs & Bohlen-Pierce, electronic music and 8-bit synthesizers | ||||||
| Erling Wold | classical; search page for just intonation | ||||||
| Daniel Wolf | xenharmonic neo-baroque string trio | ||||||
| Brian Wong | examples of computer-generated music | ||||||
| James Wyness | microtonal acousmatic works | ||||||
X | |||||||
Y | |||||||
Z | |||||||
| ZIA | Reverb Nation
YouTube |
Elaine Walker and collaborators | electronic, space, dance, 10edo, 19edo, Bohlen-Pierce, 17edo, 16edo | Martians | Las Cruces, NM / Tempe, AZ | 1992- | |
| Matthias Ziegler | unconventional flute playing | ||||||
Other
| Website | Description |
| American Mavericks concert series | Microtonal RealPlayer files: Lou Harrison Suite for Violin and American Gamelan, Third Symphony; Charles Ives "Allegro" from Quartertone Piano Pieces |
| Ancient Greek Music | Library of extant fragments using authentic tunings: Real``Player and midi |
| Boston Microtonal Society | 72-EDO |
| Catharsis (2) | Jon Catler and Jacky Ligon live; "Drone 1" |
| Fujara | Slovak overtone flute |
| Groven Piano Project | 36-tone JI (schismatic) pianos after Eivind Groven |
| Huygens-Fokker Foundation | acoustic and midi 31-EDO & 24-EDO |
| Implementing Cellular Automatas in Csound | mp3 examples with spectral pictures |
| kingmixers (2) (3) | some mp3 samples of Greek tunings, reconstructions of Greek music fragments |
| last.fm microtonal tag radio | stream microtonal music from last.fm radio |
| LucyTuning (2) (3) | LucyTuned music - clips and full pieces, midi files, mp3s, video |
| micro.soonlabel.com | Music from multiple composers in various tunings available for direct download. |
| MICROTONALISMO | Primera Web oficial de microtonalismo de habla hispana en latinoamerica |
| Music for Homemade Instruments | clips of junkmusic orchestra |
| Overtone Music Network | A platform for overtone music of all kinds, with a huge collection of online audio |
| podcast1024 | microtonal podcast by Prent Rodgers |
| Quartertonemarimba.com | Kjell Tor Innevik's project at Norwegian Academy of Music |
| Eduardo Sábat | clips of jazz standards on 53-enharmonic frets per Octave guitar (Dinarra) |
| split-notes Microtonal Netlabel | online record label, free digital releases, microtonal music from various musicians |
| The Perfect Just Intonation Music MIDI Cycle Concerts | classics tuned in JI |
| Tuning and temperament demos | midi and audio demonstrating historical tunings |
| Tuning Lab | acoustic, electronic tuning experiments |
| WNYC microtonal features | radio shows featuring microtonal music, esp. "New Sounds" |
| Xenharmonic Alliance facebook group | social networking for microtonalists. music and discussion |