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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.

TEMP NOTICE; ALL THE INFO HAS BEEN MOVED OVER FROM BANDS AND ARTISTS PAGE, PLEASE ADD TO THIS PAGE INSTEAD OF THOSE PAGES, AS PER OUR DISCUSSION ON FACEBOOK SyntheticThought (talk) 22:08, 4 October 2018 (UTC)

Also: please don't put links on artist's name in first column. Put them in LINKS column, Link description of what they are (Website, YouTube, SoundCloud, etc.)

Artists

Name Links Recommended works Members Genres, tunings, keywords Location Years microtonally active Additional notes

A

Bill Alves Website

YouTube

Harvey Mudd College

Imbal-Imbalan electronic JI, gamelan, etc. Different tunings on different songs. Claremont, California long time. Still active. (got start date?) College professor,

author. Important cat. Check him out.

Atar Arad YouTube Sonata for Viola with quartertones
Astroid power-up! CD Baby (includes audio previews) clips of hyper drum&bass. Microtonal tracks: 3, 4, 8 and 9 (60-EDO)

B

Christopher Bailey Website crystallized JI, 17-EDO, 19-EDO, 7-limit adaptive
Mike Battaglia SoundCloud "Natural"-sounding Porcupine Comma Pump Experiments various EDOs, technical studies, experimental music cognition demos (a.k.a. Bugs, a.k.a. The Bugs)
Matt Barber Rochester EDU listing in some pieces, 19-ED(per 2:1 and 3:1), quartertones, 11-EDO and 14-EDO in 3:2 equivalence
Jacob Barton Website sequenced and acoustic, various EDO and JI
Dennis Báthory-Kitsz Website "Thièle" - violin in quartertones
David Beardsley Blog

YouTube

JI electric guitar and JI chamber music.
Antoine Beaudet SoundCloud (as Jollybard) SuperBeat

Spooky

Joan temperament, JI, electronic
BipTunia Website Disco Demolition Man and Pigeon 911

Prelude for The Ill-Tempered Clavier

Michael W. Dean: synths, singing, talking.

Phil Wormuth: poetry, talking.

Rock, pop, experimental, poetry with music, different tunings on every song. Prolific. Casper Wyoming 2018- MWD is User:SyntheticThought

on this wiki. MWD also makes xen VST software.

Marcus Alessi Bittencourt Website classic electronic pan-intonational
Easley Blackwood YouTube microtonal etudes [excerpts]
Doug Blumeyer SoundCloud San Francisco
M. Edward Borasky stochastic JI
Donald Bousted Website microtonal music and film
Graham Breed Website When I Set Out for Lyonnesse electronic with spoken word; (Thomas Hardy poems), examples of different temperaments
Chris Bryan various
Brendan Byrnes Website

BandCamp

YouTube

Facebook

Siolas

Operator

Brendan Byrnes + various side players. Great production.

Progressive,rock, driving, good vocals.

Is also in band ILEVENS (separate entry below)

Los Angeles / Glendale 2011- Great first xen for many people.
Warren Burt Website (flashing images warning) sound installation; manipulated voice...

C

Tolgahan Çoğulu    YouTube

Website 1

Website 2

microtonal guitar duo Microtonal guitar. Custom builds guitars with half, quarter frets, and movable frets. Istanbul, Turkey 2008- Good first xen for many people. Popular.

Teaches music at Istanbul Technical University.

Charles Loli Website mp3 drone 17-EDO, 20-EDO, 29-EDO and 53-EDO
Catler Bros. /

Jon Catler

SoundClick

Jon Catler on Wikipedia

Interview with Jon Catler

Discogs

Hyperspace Jon Catler 64-note JI bluesrock. Have had mainstream press in Rolling Stone, Downbeat, and elsewhere.

Jon Catler runs FreeNote Records.

John Catler also plays in The Fretless Brothers
City of the Asleep Website Electronica, post-rock, and unclassifiable music in a variety of tunings, especially uncommon EDOs and theoretically-discordant tunings
Nick Collins Blog

YouTube playlist

Simphony 2, Movement 1 (MP3 direct link) microtonal supercollider tempo canons
William Copper Website music in 5-limit JI, printed scores with intonation markings, intonalism
Mildred Couper Wikipedia

PDF academic article

Scores at USC Santa Barbara site

Dirge

Calliope of the Nine Muses

quartertone pianos Buenos Aires, Argentina / Santa Barbara, California Died in 1974
Cryptic Ruse BandCamp Jason Yerger instrumental progressive metal & drone-metal in 13edo, 14edo, 15edo, 17edo, and 23edo Jason is IgliashonJones on this wiki.
David J. Cubberly Website sequenced microtonal midi ensemble Urbana, IL.

D

Phil Dadson Website

Wikipedia

instruments in JI, Installations and performance
Ivor Darreg Wikipedia

Detwelvulate!

Live in Glendale (180 minutes)

Remaster of Live in Glendale (torrent)

Info on huygens-fokkersite

more links

Detwelvulate! 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.

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.

Important cat. Check him out.

"Grandaddy of xenharmonic music." Coined the term "xenharmonic".

Prolific builder of microtonal instruments.

Johnny Appleseed of xen, personally guided many people, and networked with cassette tapes before World Wide Web.

Ivor has a VST microtonal synth named after him.

Jarod DCamp SoundClick electronic - various tunings
Tútim Dennsuul List of MP3s clips in 23-EDO
Mark Deutsch BandCamp

Website

Facebook

sensual acoustic microtonal music, world influence Invented the Bazantar, a stringed instrument
Divide by Pi Google Music

CD Baby (can listen to excerpts)

mp3 clips: synthesizer and percussion improvisations
Paul Dolden Website

Wikipedia (doesn't mention microtonal, is all his music?)

mp3 - variously tuned electroacoustic need listen links. Also, please confirm if all his music is microtonal.
David B. Doty Website Steel Suite synth JI, acoustic guitar JI
Arnold Dreyblatt Website grooving JI
Dsilton Trio Website

YouTube

Facebook

Duschscha Georg Vogel: Clavinet, Synthesizer, Komposition. David Dornig: 31-Ton E-Gitarre.

Valentin Duit: Schlagzeug.

odd time signatures, chamber influence, jazz influence. 31edo. Vienna, Austria 2015-
Jacques Dudon YouTube

Academic profile

Wikipedia

Forced Exposure

samples of "Lumières audibles" JI electronic
Richard Dunlap SoundClick mostly 12-EDO California USA

E

Paul Erlich YouTube

MySpace

Interview

22-EDO guitar

F

John Farah Website

SoundCloud

BandCamp

YouTube

Facebook

string quartet, Electronic in 19-EDO
David J. Finnamore List of MP3s

13 TET MP3s

etudes using "golden horograms"; clips of dirty 13-EDO guitar
Daniel Forro SoundClick

List of MP3s

Kakamigahara, Japan
Harold Fortuin 2 MP3s

Wikipedia

YouTube

Glenn R. Frantz Songs on Archive.org Three Ragtime-Based Pieces} freestyle JI via computer, based on ragtime music

G

Kyle Gann Website

MP3s on website

List of compositions

xenharmonic JI, now with more Sitting Bull!
Monroe Golden Website

SoundCloud

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 MP3

Website

1 electronic mp3: 10-EDO; midi recorder duets in 19-EDO
Kraig Grady YouTube

Samples (requires Flash.)

Website

Blog

Facebook

Live at the Cad Factory

Ear Meal (music + Skype interview)

Original acoustic instruments/ensembles informed by the music of anaphoria Island Wollongong, Australia
Patrick Grant BandCamp

Bio and audio examples

Website

Wikipedia

FIELDS AMAZE and other sTRANGE music "percussion, gamelan, microtonal instruments, and electric chamber ensembles with narrative structures informed by chaos theory, biological forms, and B-horror films." New York City
Peter Guidi Wikipedia one track of quartertone flute (Can find music of his on YouTube, but isn't microtonal. Anyone got links to his microtonal music?)
Milan Guštar Listing of music Generative composition for piano and theremin music in various tunings (06-EDO, 07-EDO, 08-EDO, 12-EDO, JI) Czech Republic

H

Edu Haubensak Website Sechs Walserminiaturen (1996) for soprano and violin Music for retuned pianos and retuned strings
Georg Hajdu Website

Lecture on YouTube

electronic 17-EDO; scene from opera Der Sprung (Bohlen-Pierce) (some of his music online is not microtonal. Anyone got a link to microtonal music by him?)
Jeff Harrington Website

YouTube

Acid Bach III for Quartertone Microtonal Synthesize electronic in 19-EDO, 24-EDO, others
Lou Harrison Wikipedia

Steel Guitar piece

John Schneider plays Lou Harrison Jahla Nek Chand for solo guitar in JI
Robert Hasegawa Website Acoustic chamber JI, quartertones, 19-tone pianos, with scores
Neil Haverstick Website 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 Website excerpts of microtonal guitar (72-EDO)
Horse Lords Bandcamp Mix Tape Sam Haberman

Max Eilbacher

Owen Gardner

Andrew Bernstein

Just intonation, polyrhythm, minimalist, musique concrète Baltimore, MD 2012-
Chuckk Hubbard anyone got a current link? JI sequenced music etc.
Peter Lucas Hulen Website modern classical electronic compositions - search page for 'microtonal'

I

ILEVENS Bandcamp

YouTube

Split Notes Records

Facebook

Drowns Brendan Byrnes - Vocals, Guitar

Mike Horick - Drums

Lauren Davis - Synths

Rusty Kennedy - Bass

22edo rock band, led by Brendan Byrnes Los Angeles 2015-

J

Ralph Jarzombek Website Micro 1

Micro 6

electronic 14-EDO, 17edo, and 19edo from 1980s. If you like the Residents, you'll love this.
Aaron Krister Johnson Website 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

YouTube

Facebook

Nasty Boy

Live video

Bad Boys (album)

Lauren Ray - vocals

Lauren Smith - bass

Spencer Hargreaves - guitar

Dustin Bromley - drum

best punk band name ever Vancouver, BC 2016- Peppy punk rock, female vocals, 17 edo,
Christiaan de Jong Website mp3 clip - flute and tape
Magnus Jonsson Website acoustic and electronic JI and meantone improvisations and compositions
Churzkia Jrakavla Website hip electronic JI
Jute Gyte Bandcamp The Sparrow 12" EP Adam Kalmbach black metal Springfield, MO 2002 - current 24edo

K

Ali Deniz Kardelen Acoustic Microtonal Guitar Not sure if all microtonal but has at least one amazing microtonal guitar piece great first xen piece for people who like acoustic music
Buzz Kimball Website homemade guitars etc. in EDOs and JI
dt King Website "Change Jar" for quartertone piano
Wayne Kirby Website demos, full and excerpts, mp3 and midi
Kenneth Kirschner Website looong mp3 of stretched piano etc. ambient microtonal
King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard Flying Microtonal Banana

Wikipedia

Sleep Drifter (live in radio station studio)

mini-documentary

Stu Mackenzie

Ambrose Kenny Smith

Joey Walker

Cook Craig

Lucas Skinner

Michael Cavanagh

Eric Moore

Melbourne, Australia 2017 24edo, alternative, garage
Kite (aka Tall Kite) BandCamp

SoundCloud

I Hear Numbers 7-limit JI music
Eric Knechtges Website acoustic (choir) & electronic, various JI & EDOs

L

Anne La Berge Website quartertone flute - go to "Releases"
Last Sacrament Website 16edo death metal from Florida
Jacky Ligon Website xenharmonic music and software blog Records sometimes with Sevish
Amit Lissack Website electronic instrumental
Alvin Lucier Website slow-to-change cluster acoustic
Charles Lucy Website miscellaneous works in progress - also see LucyTuning below

M

Joe Maneri Website some modern classical excerpts - mp3
Rick McGowan Website microtonal works for the theatre
John McLaird Website 07-EDO, 40-EDO, 11-limit JI, etc. sampled piano etc.
Pete McRae Website Eikosany blues
Carl McTague Website (ii-V-I)^7 and Heptadecaphonic Drops
Claudi Meneghin Website Neobaroque music at Soonlabel.com
The Mercury Tree Website Ben Spees

Connor Reilly

Oliver Campbell

+Igliashon Jones

Progressive rock, psychedelic, math rock Portland, OR 2007 17edo, 23edo
Herman Miller Website compositions in linear temperaments, ETs; Warped Canon
Shaahin Mohajeri Website modal, sequenced in various EDO/ADO/EDL/AIDO/ADL
Joe Monzo Website mp3s in JI jazz-rock style
John Moriarty Website Rock and improv in various regularly tempered tunings
Frederick Moore Website some microtonal works, electronic and other

N

Naegleria Fowleri Website on Google Pages III Flagellate - Propulsion Bostjan Zupancic

Luna Bird

"The world's first microtonal avian-fronted metal band" St. Johnsbury, Vermont 2017- Parrot singing with a xen metal project. What's not to love?
Ron Nagorcka Website JI music with digeridoo, synthesizers, birds...
Juhani Nuorvala Website Various tunings

O

Mats Öljare Website contrapuntal midi in various EDOs and etc's

P

Tristan Parker Website electronic JI, free-pitch
P-ART (Paul A.R. Timmermans) Website experimental clips
Harry Partch Website acoustic, homemade JI; monophony
Joseph Pehrson Website acoustic and electronic, much in Blackjack tuning
pfly (Paul Fly) Website Zlo-88 in 88-cET
Samuel Pellman Website electronic EDOs, nonoctave, JI
Joseph Post Website Crystal-JI acoustic guitar
Tom Price (broken) electronic xenharmonic
Kees van Prooijen Website 'Odd Piano' in Bohlen-Pierce scale, timbre-stretched piano
Barry Prophet Website acoustic instruments/sound sculptures

Q

R

Johnny Reinhard Website acoustic polymicrotonality
Robert Rich Website some microtonal ambient (7-limit JI + The Harmonic Series)
Michael Robinson Website worldly electronic microtonal
Prent Rodgers Website "Music that's fake but accurate" Microtonal Music of Prent Rodgers
Dante Rosati Website solo JI guitars
Robert Ross Website 19-EDO flash madrigals

S

Marc Sabat Website mostly-acoustic mp3s in mostly JI
Carlos Sampaio Website electronic xenharmonics
Scott Sandvik Website slide guitar
Edward Schocker Website dramatic works - exerpts and fulls
Margo Schulter Website Neo-medieval Xenharmonic
Andrew Schulze Website some mp3s of electronic JI
Ethan Schwartz Website JI music based on tetrachords, for guitar and keyboard
X. J. Scott Website electronic xenharmonic
George Secor Website various vintage Scalatron performances
Dave Seidel Website microtonal minimalism and ambience, using Csound
Carlo Serafini YouTube electronic xenharmonic. isomorphic keyboard: the Opal Chameleon Florence, Italy Futurist composer.

Also, is admin on Facebook Microtonalitaly group

Bill Sethares electronic xenharmonic with stretched partials
Sevish Website

YouTube

SoundCloud

Blog

BandCamp

Twitter

Desert Island Rain

Gleam

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.

London, England 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 Website Music in 72-EDO
Gene Ward Smith Website sequenced originals; Mad Science Tuning; renderings of colleagues' music
Jon Lyle Smith Website sequenced classical in odd meters
Spectral Voices Website clips of meditative New Age with overtone singing
Soundwell (Anders Erkéus) Website "Snake" overtone flute
Manfred Stahnke Website one piece "Partch Harp" for harp and sampled harp
Hans-Andre Stamm Website quartertone/ 48-tone JI acoustic organ!
John Starrett Website Microtonal listening page, with two of Starrett's pieces in 19-EDO
Stimmhorn (Christian Zehnder, Balthasar Streiff) Website Experimental alphorn and yodeling combined with overtone singing
Hans Straub Website pieces with meters that match the tunings
Redrick Sultan Bandcamp The Prince Spencer Hargreaves - Vocals, Guitars

Noah Jordan - Vocals, Bass, Keys, Flute, Oud

Sean Mitchell - Drums, Sampling

spooky, cool, acoustic, electric. Vancouver, British Columbia 2010- 22edo, acoustic, magic rock, chill
Mick Sussman Website plunderphonic collages in various tunings and multitempi
William Susman Website Works in quarter-tone - scores and audio files
Ron Sword (2) Website 16-EDO and 31-EDO on 8 and 9 string guitar Etudes, Microtonal Extreme Metal
Syzygys (2) YouTube

Website

Facebook

Lotus Rain Hitomi Shimizu = 43 microtone organ, vocals

Hiromi Nishida=Violin, vocals

clips of Japanese duo in 43-tone Partch JI, with Chromelodeon Japan ?

T

Tall Kite (aka Kite) Website

soundcloud.com/

mbirakite

"I Hear Numbers" Kite

Giedraitis

7-limit JI music Portland,

Oregon

USA

1990's to

present

Cam Taylor Website

https://archive.org/search.php?query=creator%3A%22Cam+Taylor%22

https://soundcloud.com/camtaylor-1

https://soundcloud.com/cam-taylor-2-1

https://iamcamtaylor.wordpress.com/

mothers

those early dreams

12tone63EDO1

Cam Taylor Bosanquet Axis49, 12- and 17-tone keyboard improvisations in 17, 19, 22, 26, 31, 37, 39, 41, 43, 46, 50, 53, 56, 63, 94, 112 EDOs, some JI and near-just tunings, and songs with piano or guitar in 31EDO and JI, various. Auckland, New Zealand 2010-
Peter Thoegersen SoundCloud

BandCamp

Two Worlds

I Am a Force of Nature

composer.

Absurdist symphonic, chamber. Fun. Difficult music, in a good way.

If you like Zappa's stranger works, you will like this.

New York (?)
Tony Dubshot Website Macrotonal dub and dancehall in 05-EDO, 07-EDO and 08-EDO
Tritone MSU Website electronic JI
Tui St. George Tucker Website Quartertone scores
Stephen James Taylor Website microtonal film scores, multiple Wilson scales
Jeroen Paul Thesseling Website microtonal music for bass guitar: "HAFNIUM" (72-EDO), "ARGON" (18-EDO), "DISCREPANTIUM" (24-EDO)

U

uSSSY Bandcamp

Acoustic version of one song on YouTube

Ud

Voyage

Artem Galkin

Pavel Eremeev

24edo, noise rock, psychedelic 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 Musica Prisca Caput (Madrigal for 24-tone two voice harpsichord in Meantone)

Same piece played on an arciorgano.

Madonna il poco dolce.

early microtonal composer in 16th century. Born 1511 .

Died in either 1575 or 1576

Nicola Visalli (broken) electronically rendered microtonal contemporary classical
Voltage Controlled Website 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.

W

Robert Walker Website classical, world, fractal Indianapolis, IN
Stephen Weigel Website xenharmonic pop / computer music / totalism
Danny Wier Website symphonic, progressive rock/metal, jazz, etc., mostly in 72-EDO (all synth-generated)
Randy Winchester (2) Website "Comets Over Flatland" excerpts in various EDOs & Bohlen-Pierce, electronic music and 8-bit synthesizers
Erling Wold Website classical; search page for just intonation
Daniel Wolf Website xenharmonic neo-baroque string trio
Brian Wong Website examples of computer-generated music
James Wyness Website microtonal acousmatic works

X

Y

Z

ZIA Reverb Nation

Facebook

Bandcamp

YouTube

Martians Elaine Walker and collaborators electronic, space, dance, 10edo, 19edo, Bohlen-Pierce, 17edo, 16edo Las Cruces, NM / Tempe, AZ 1992-
Matthias Ziegler Website 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

Oldani's Math&music Site