Monthly Tunings
- This page is about the project organized on Facebook. For the project organized on Discord, see Tuning of the Month Club.
The Xenharmonic Alliance Monthly Tunings group is a semi-private spin-off of the main Xenharmonic Alliance group. The point of the group is to get xenharmonicists to work on the same tuning, and share ideas, discoveries and music in that tuning. Each month, we all vote on the tuning we want to use.
This page is meant to be an archive of the content produced by that group. Feel free to add your own work to the list.
2016
- February and March - Pajara
- April - Sensi
- Sensi Tocada by Claudi Meneghin
- May - 19edo
- June - 37edo
- I do not know if she is saying the truth by Igor Livramento
- Little Twyelyghte Musicke (37edo) for 2 Cornetts, 2 Sagbutts & Timpani by Claudi Meneghin
- Canon in F, 37edo by Claudi Meneghin
- July - Superpyth
- Highlights - Triadic Superpyth Study by William Lynch
- Super Chill by William Lynch
- Demanding Two Faces by Stephen Weigel (Soundcloud)
- Where were you During the Apocalypse? by Stephen Weigel
- September and October - Porcupine
- Little Fugue in Porcupine by Claudi Meneghin
- November - 21edo
- "Bueno Pa Gozar" (by Kite Giedraitis, salsa-esque piece loosely based on Oye Coma Va)
- 21edo Chacony, for harpsichord by Claudi Meneghin
- Iridescent Wenge Fugue by Stephen Weigel, accepted into SEAMUS 2018 and EABD 2018
- December - Fibonacci tuning (look on page 22 of the doc / 24 of the PDF)
The Fibonacci sequence is a series of integers that successively add to create the next one in the series, beginning with 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34, 55, etc... and thus a Fibonacci horogram shows this sequence in its rings / moments-of-symmetry. The generator for the Fibonacci horogram is 458.359213... cents.
2017
- January - Bohlen-Pierce
- A Mean Little Voice by Stephen Weigel
- February - 19edo
- March - 26edo
- Canon 3-in-1 on a ground ‘The tempest’ by Claudi Meneghin
- April - Semaphore
- May - 11edo
- June - Mavila
- Gamelan, Genesis, and Birth by Stephen Weigel, played by the Beo String Quartet
- Mavila Fugue by Claudi Meneghin
- Kôsma jumiś lul by Herman Miller
- Hunger Wanders in an Empty Room by Stephen Weigel
- July - Marvel woo
- Marvelous River by William Lynch
- Cave of Marvels by Herman Miller
- A Short Composition in Marvel Woo by Chris Vaisvil (website)
- Hallelujah in Marvel Woo (cover) by Stephen Weigel
- August - 20edo
- Chacony & Fugue in 20edo by Claudi Meneghin
- Spinning the Web by Herman Miller
- 20edo Ambient Guitar with Video by Chris Vaisvil
- Underwater Spontaniety (lo-fi ambient) by Stephen Weigel
- God's Favorite Tuning (xen-pop) by Stephen Weigel
- You Lied, and I'm not Mentioning your Name (xen-pop) by Stephen Weigel
- September - 72edo
- October and November - 46edo
- Curiosity Finds a Frown by Stephen Weigel (this is in 23edo - 23 is half of 46, so it counts!)
- December - 15edo
2018
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- January - 18edo
- The Moon by Noah Jordan
- Revealing the Path by Herman Miller(Facebook), this was done with acoustic piano
- De-Void of Re-Incarnation by Stephen Weigel (fixed media)
- February - 10edo
- Diablo by Kewti
- Padanian Canon in 10edo by Claudi Meneghin
- Ten-Armed Hunter by Herman Miller
- English Theorbo, in wandelwonderland, Fantasy for Piano by Chris Vaisvil
- Love is the Catalyst (cover) by Stephen Weigel
- Hymns of the Cosmos by KijntheRelar
- March - Monarda
Monarda is a 12-note subset of "Tannic" temperament, discovered by Scott Dakota, that is rank-three and observes the 17-limit. 17-limit JI is 7-dimensional, and the commas tempered out are: 273/272, 561/560, 441/440, and 225/224. 7 dimensions - 4 commas = the 3 dimensional tuning. To find temperaments, it's recommended to use the Regular Temperament Finder, instead of the wiki. Check out the FB Monthly Tunings page for specifics.
- ilu by Noah Jordan
- Cam Taylor's Monarda Impressions by Cam Taylor
- Tannic Acid (comparison) by Chris Vaisvil
- Nowhere in Super Particular by Stephen Weigel
- April - Polaris
- Polaris refers to a 17-note constant structure in 13-limit JI. It can either function as an untempered JI version, or a tempered version, where 352/351 and 364/363 are most often tempered out (144/143 can be tempered out as well).
- polaris falls by Chris Vaisvil
- May and June - 31edo
- Contrapunctus 11 tuned to 31edo by Claudi Meneghin (original composer J. S. Bach)
- July and August - 13edo
- September - 14edo
- October - 53edo
- November - 2.3.7 JI
- December - 13.888edo
2019
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- January - 15edo
- February - 22edo
- April - 31edo
- May - 32edo
- June - 19edo
- July - Triple BP
- August and September - 19edo
- October - 31edo
- November - 15edo
- December - 27edo
2020
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- January - 17edo
- February - 20edo
- March - Tunings using phi
- April and May - Miracle
- June - Luna[25]
- July - 8edf
- August - Archytas' Chromatic or Al-Farabi
- Javen ślǔ lil - Herman Miller
- Instrumental: javen-slu-lil-instrumental
- October - 20edo
- November - 9edo
- December - 46edo
2021
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- January - 20c & 21c
- February - 50edo
- March - 13.888edo
- April and May - 19edo
- June and July - 31edo
- August - 55edo
- September - 0edo
- October and November - Canasta[31]
- December - 13edo
2022
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- February and March - 22edo
- April - 72edo
- May and June - 41edo
- July - 6ed5/4
- August - 46edo
- September - 13.888edo
- October - Blackjack
- November - 23edo
- December - 37edo
2023
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- January - 37edo
- February - 43edt
- March - 26edo
- April - Golden meantone
- May - Triple BP
- June - Carlos Alpha
- July - Dwarf17marv
- August and September - Tetracot
- October - 50edo
- November and December
Group was on hiatus during these months.
2024
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- January - Negri
- February - 33edo
- March - Sensi
- April - Orwell
- May - Eagle 53
- Three short pieces in Eagle 53 tuning - Budjarn Lambeth
- Uccellini - Aria Sopra La Bergamasca, arranged for Oboe, Recorder, Bassoon, tuned into Eagle 53 - Claudi Meneghin
- Bach - Prelude BWV 999, arranged for Organ, transposed into Em, tuned into EAGLE 53 - Claudi Meneghin
- Flowing Along - Herman Miller
- June - 19edo
- July - 34edo
- August - 21edo
- September and October - 15edo
- Dungeon theme (and other themes) from the Legend of Zelda in 15-TET (Microtonal) - Chris Kline
- Improvisation in zeta-stretched 15edo - Budjarn Lambeth
- November - 43edo
- December - 42edo
Leadership and statistics
The group is administrated by Antonie Beaudet and Claudi Meneghin. It is moderated by Stephen Weigel.
Meneghin posts the monthly polls where all users are invited to nominate tunings and to vote upon the nominations. Meneghin also keeps the monthly cover photo and other group images updated.
As the time of writing (16 Dec 2024), the group has 473 members.
The group usually sees 10 to 15 posts per month, though occasionally one month is an outlier with dramatically more activity (Sep 2024, 15edo, for example saw 51 posts). Posts are typically a fairly even mixture of original compositions, covers, new theoretical discoveries and reshares to promote the work of artists outside the group.