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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. 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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| 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 | ||||||
| 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 | Siolas | |||||
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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 | ||||||
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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 | ||||||
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| Paul Erlich | 22-EDO guitar | ||||||
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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 | ||||||
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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 | ||||||
J |
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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 | ||||||
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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 | ||||||
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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... | ||||||
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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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| 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 | ||||||
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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 | ||||||
| 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 |
| 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 | ||||||
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| 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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| 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. |
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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 | ||||||
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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 |