I'm Aura. If you wish to address me by my real name, call me Dawson. While I started my first mircotonal piece in 2014, I'm only just starting to get more serious about microtonality.
As for my response to this [[1]]...
What was your path to discovering alternate tunings?
I found microtuning while delving into the harmonic series, and I developed a particular fascination with the eleventh harmonic. So much so, that in 2014, I wrote the first version of my first microtonal piece in 24-EDO, "Folly of a Drunk", under the working title "Folly". Notably, the first version of this piece featured a modulation from a microtonality-enhanced version of key of A- alternating between Major and Minor- to a microtonality-enhanced version of the key of G-Demisharp Minor, all by use of chords built on 24-EDO's versions of both the eleventh harmonic and the eleventh subharmonic.
(I'll be happy to share this piece in the future once everything's in place, as I only just recently finalized the 24-EDO version. Trust me, this little ragtime-esque song is an earworm, and yes, it still has the aforementioned modulation, albeit with improvements...)
What are your current/past/future particular interests?
My main interests in the area of xenharmonic music at present are focused on compositions involving both more harmonically pure versions of the thirty-five 12-EDO proper heptatonic modes, and working with the 7-prime-limit and 11-prime-limit harmonies, though I'm not above messing with 13-prime-limit, 17-prime-limit and even 19-prime-limit harmonies. In the future, I'd like to take what I've learned and use it to further develop Treble-Down music- who says Bass-Up is the only direction to build chords and harmonies and melodies?
What instruments or means have you had/do you have now/do you want for the making of microtonal music?
So far, all I have is the composition software itself, but it would be great to have advanced synthesizers, vocals, and even instruments in the New Violin Family (see here: [2]) available for performance. The only problem? Money... Go figure...
I just created this: