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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.
I. links to pages that feature a single composer or band
| Composer(s) | Description |
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| Mary Beth Ackerly | music tuned for healing |
| Jyrki Alakuijala (broken) | electronic dance music in 8.19-EDO |
| Bill Alves | electronic JI, gamelan, etc. |
| Atar Arad | Sonata for Viola with quartertones |
| Sean Archibald / "Sevish" | drum'n'bass/electronic in EDOs, JI, nonoctave scales and various others. microtonal: everything 2010 onwards |
| Astroid power-up! | clips of hyper drum&bass. Microtonal tracks: 3, 4, 8 and 9 (60-EDO) |
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| Christopher Bailey | crystallized JI, 17-EDO, 19-EDO, 7-limit adaptive |
| 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 | Rock, pop, experimental, poetry with music, different tunings on every song. Prolific. |
| Marcus Alessi Bittencourt | classic electronic pan-intonational |
| Easley Blackwood | microtonal etudes [excerpts] |
| M. Edward Borasky | stochastic JI |
| Donald Bousted | microtonal music and film |
| Graham Breed | electronic with spoken word; examples of different temperaments |
| Chris Bryan | various |
| 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 |
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| 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 | instrumental progressive metal & drone-metal in 13edo, 14edo, 15edo, 17edo, and 23edo |
| David J. Cubberly | sequenced microtonal midi ensemble |
D |
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| Phil Dadson | instruments in JI, Installations and performance |
| Janis Dambergs | drone 31-EDO |
| 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 |
| Jacques Dudon | samples of "Lumières audibles" JI electronic |
| Richard Dunlap | mostly 12-EDO but try title song |
E |
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| Paul Erlich | 22-EDO guitar |
F |
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| 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 |
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| Kyle Gann | xenharmonic JI, now with more Sitting Bull! |
| Monroe Golden | microtonal chamber music, microtone-informed 12-EDO |
| 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) |
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| 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 | electronic xenharmonic improvisations |
| Jim Horton and Bill Thibault (broken) | electronic microtonal |
| Sten Hostfalt | excerpts of microtonal guitar (72-EDO) |
| Chuckk Hubbard | JI sequenced music etc. |
| Peter Lucas Hulen | modern classical electronic compositions - search page for 'microtonal' |
I |
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| ILEVENS | 22edo rock band from southern California, led by Brendan Byrnes |
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| Ralph Jarzombek | electronic 14-EDO from '80s |
| Aaron Krister Johnson | mostly electronic compositions and improvisations; some theatre incidental music |
| 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 |
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| 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 |
| Kite (aka Tall Kite) | 7-limit JI music |
| Eric Knechtges | acoustic (choir) & electronic, various JI & EDOs |
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| 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 |
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| 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 | Progressive rock band from Oregon, with some music in 17edo and other microtonal tunings |
| 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 |
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| Ron Nagorcka | JI music with digeridoo, synthesizers, birds... |
O |
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| Mats Öljare | contrapuntal midi in various EDOs and etc's |
P |
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| 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 |
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R |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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) | clips of Japanese duo in 43-tone Partch JI, with Chromelodeon |
T |
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| Tall Kite (aka Kite) | 7-limit JI music |
| 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. |
| 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) |
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| Chris Vaisvil | 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. |
| 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 |
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Z |
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| ZIA | electronic space music: 19-EDO, 10-EDO, Bohlen-Pierce, others |
| Matthias Ziegler | unconventional flute playing |
II. links to pages that feature multiple composers or no composers
| 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 |