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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.
Please don't put external links on artist's name in first column. Put them in LINKS column, Link description of what they are (Website, YouTube, SoundCloud, etc.)
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. (Stephen Weigel's YouTube channel, Mike Battaglia's SoundCloud, and H. Wakabayashi's YouTube channel have great examples of these).
Notable examples from 20th century classical music that briefly use the 7th harmonic, and for the Britten piece, the 11th harmonic as well:
- Ralph Vaughan Williams's Symphony No. 3, A Pastoral Symphony from 1922, two horn solos in the 2nd movement
- Benjamin Britten's Serenade for Tenor, Horn and Strings from 1943, prologue and epilogue
See also this Microtonal Spotify Playlist. Put it on Shuffle and have a great intro to xen in every genre.
| 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) |
Compilations
| Year | Links | Title | Synopsis | Genres, tunings, keywords | Additional notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | YouTube | Xenharmonic Alliance Discord - Adxenture EP | 11 artists. Theme: Explore + Discover |
Tunings: 15edo, 17-note tempered 2.3.7.29 ternary scale*, 26edo, 27edo, 12-tone 7-limit scale**, 21edo, 22edo, 37edo | Was an entry in the Server vs Server V competition. *28/27 + 0.193 ¢, 29/27 + 2.596 ¢, 9/8 - 1.066 ¢, 7/6 - 0.873 ¢, 29/24 + 1.53 ¢, 81/64 - 2.132 ¢, 21/16 - 1.939 ¢, 87/64 + 0.464 ¢, 116/81 + 3.129 ¢, 3/2 - 0.533 ¢, 14/9 - 0.34 ¢, 29/18 + 2.063 ¢, 27/16 - 1.599 ¢, 7/4 - 1.406 ¢, 29/16 + 0.997 ¢, 243/128 - 2.665 ¢, 2/1 **135/128, 9/8, 75/64, 5/4, 21/16, 45/32, 3/2, 25/16, 27/16, 7/4, 15/8, 2/1 |
| 2023 | YouTube | Xenharmonic Alliance Discord - Xen Cover Project - Kids Songs Edition | 4 artists. Theme: Kids Songs |
Tunings: 46edo, octave-reduced 10L 7s MOS, 53edo, 15edo | |
| 2023 | YouTube | Xenharmonic Alliance Discord - Cover My Song | 7 artists. 8 tracks. | Tunings: Free pitch, 22edo, 410edo, 159edo, 41edo, 19edo, 27edo | |
| 2022 | YouTube | Xenharmonic Alliance Discord - Xen Cover Project - Christmas 2022 Edition! | 8 artists. Theme: Christmas and Winter songs |
Tunings: 7-Limit POTE Whitewood[21], 29edo, 23edo, 159edo*, 22edo, 353edo**, Iceface 75***, 17edo, Harmonics 16-32 starting from multiple notes**** | *Used for multiple songs, each song with a different reference pitch; main scale: 27\159, 51\159, 66\159, 93\159, 120\159, 144\159, 159\159 **38\353 Rectified Hebrew + 38\353 Apparatus on Harp ***12edo with the black piano keys raised 75 cents ****D = 293.333 Hz, G = 195.556 Hz, C = 260.741 Hz, F = 173.827 Hz, Bb = 234.667 Hz, Eb = 156.444 Hz |
| 2022 | Youtube | Xenharmonic Alliance Discord - Xen Cover Project 2 | 10 artists. Covers of "Tostarena: Ruins" from Super Mario Odyssey. |
Tunings: 17edo, 13-limit JI*, 21edo, 19edo, 13-limit lemba, 13-limit srutal[12], 23edo, 11-limit JI**, 37edo, 33edo | *28/27, 9/8, 7/6, 63/52, 4/3, 3/2, 14/9, 21/13, 7/4, 2/1 **12/11, 9/8, 6/5, 5/4, 4/3, 15/11, 3/2, 18/11, 27/16, 16/9, 15/8, 2/1 |
| 2022 | Youtube | Xenharmonic Alliance Discord - Deleted User EP | 12 artists. Theme: Secrets |
Tunings: 19edo, 2)5 CPS 3 7 9 11 13, 21edo, 18edo, 29edo, 33edo, 22edo, 11edo, 13edo, a porcupine-derived nonoctave tuning | Was an entry in the Server vs Server IV competition. |
| 2022 | Youtube | Xenharmonic Alliance Discord - Xen Cover Project | 7 artists. Covers of "Aquatic Ambience" from Donkey Kong Country. |
Tunings: 7-limit JI*, 18edo, 17edo, 7-limit JI**, 41edo, 15edo, 22edo | *9/8, 7/6, 6/5, 4/3, 3/2, 14/9, 8/5, 16/9, 2/1 **28/27, 9/8, 6/5, 5/4, 4/3, 7/5, 3/2, 8/5, 5/3, 9/5, 15/8, 2/1 |
| 2022 | Youtube | Xenharmonic Alliance Discord - LM x SvS 1v1s | 10 one-minute tracks by 10 artists. | Tunings: 16edo neji /128, 22edo, 17edo, Ibn Sina diatonic + extra chromatic tones (JI)*, 31edo, 20edo, 24edo, 16edo, 26edo | LM x SvS = Lucid Monday x Server vs Server *14/13, 7/6, 4/3, 3/2, 21/13, 7/4, 2/1 + 28/27, 21/20, 14/9 |
| 2021 | Bandcamp | STAFFcirc vol. 7b - Luna Octava | 15 artists. | Each track uses a different EDO or other equal-step tuning. | |
| 2021 | Youtube | Xenharmonic Alliance Discord - Gone Too Deep EP | 14 artists. Theme: Dreams |
Tunings: 14edo, a Neji tuning, 18edo, 17edo, 96edo, 31edo, 15edo, 21edo, 23edo, 20edo | Was an entry in the Server vs Server III competition. |
| 2021 | Bandcamp | STAFFcirc vol. 7 - Terra Octava | 16 artists. | Each track uses a different EDO. | |
| 2019 | Listen free on Spotify | Microtonal Freedom (A Benefit Compilation Album for Lyn Ulbricht) | 17 groups/artists. Many of them are contributors on this wiki. | GENRES: Blues, metal, prog, trip-hop, hip-hop, funk, classical, ambient, math, punk, spoken, folk, solo acoustic guitar. | Very good overview, and very listenable, especially for people without experience in Xen, or who think it sounds odd. |
| 2016 | Split-notes | Next Xen | 17 groups/artists. | ||
| 2010 | Split-notes | Crack My Pitch Up | 10 groups/artists. | ||
| 1998 | Broken Link? | A Microtonal Musical Experience | 10-ish groups/artists. | Many of the tracks on the CD were the first widely available audio files on the internet featuring xenharmonic tunings. |
Artists
| Name | Links | Recommended works | Members | Genres, tunings, keywords | Location | Years microtonally active | Additional notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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| Agonanist | Bandcamp | Black metal in various EDO's | California | ||||
| Bill Alves | Website YouTube Harvey Mudd College |
Imbal-Imbalan | Electronic JI, gamelan, etc. Different tunings on different songs. Sometimes creates his own tunings just for one song. | Claremont, California | 1987- | College professor, author. Important cat. Check him out. | |
| Aphex Twin | Official Store Wikipedia |
Selected Ambient Works Volume II drukQs |
Electronic music | Scotland | 1994- | ||
| Atar Arad | YouTube | Sonata for Viola with quartertones | |||||
| Astroid power-up! | CD Baby [dead link] (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 | ||||
| benyamind | Bandcamp Youtube |
31edo, 22edo, JI, orchestral, piano | |||||
| BipTunia | Website Bandcamp |
Microtonal Cats from Alpha-Centauri” | Michael W. Dean (synths, singing, talking) Phil Wormuth (poetry, talking) |
Darkwave, 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 Jr. | YouTube | Microtonal etudes [excerpts] | |||||
| Douglas Blumeyer | SoundCloud Website |
Musical patterns | Berkeley | 2006- | |||
| Cameron Bobro | Soundcloud | Bass vocals and microtonal folk instruments in haunting songs. | Maribor, Slovenia | ||||
| 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 |
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 | |||||
| Wendy Carlos | Wikipedia Video analyzing her microtonal scales |
Beauty and the Beast | Not all her work is microtonal, but Beauty in the Beast (1986) is. She invented her own non-octave-repeating musical scales for it. | Early synthesizer pioneer ( Switched on Bach, 1968) | |||
| 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. | Jon Catler also plays in The Fretless Brothers and makes Freenote guitars. | ||
| City of the Asleep | Website | Jason Yerger | 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 | ||||
| David J. Cubberly | Listing at Discogs Website |
Per email reply from him, no listen links online. See note on Talk page. | Sequenced microtonal midi ensemble | Urbana, Illinois | |||
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| Philip Dadson | Wikipedia Centre for New Zealand Music |
Instruments in JI, installations and performance | |||||
| Ivor Darreg | Wikipedia | Prelude 2 For 19 Tone Guitar Detwelvulate! Ivor Darreg Originals - I Ivor Darreg Originals - II |
San Diego, Los Angeles | c. 1936-1994 | Important cat. Check him out. "Granddaddy of xenharmonic music." | ||
| Jarod DCamp | SoundClick | Electronic - various tunings | |||||
| Tútim Dennsuul Wafiil | List of MP3s | Clips in 23-EDO | |||||
| Mark Deutsch | Website Bandcamp |
Sensual acoustic microtonal music, world influence | Invented the Bazantar, a stringed instrument | ||||
| Diamond Doll | Bandcamp Spotify |
Hello My Name's Diamond Doll Autogynephilia Little Brother |
Kit Hagerstrom (songwriting, production, vocals) Grey Tyson (vocals) |
Postpunk, hyperpop, queercore, various EDOs | Winnipeg, Manitoba | 2019- | good entry point to xen |
| Divide by Pi | Google Music CD Baby [dead link] (can listen to excerpts) |
MP3 clips: synthesizer and percussion improvisations | |||||
| Paul Dolden | Bandcamp Wikipedia |
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| dotuXil | Youtube Bandcamp Mirlo Github |
Collected Refractions Bandcamp Collected Refractions Youtube |
Electronic, Various Tunings, Melodic | 2023- | |||
| David B. Doty | Website | Steel Suite | Synth JI, acoustic guitar JI | ||||
| Arnold Dreyblatt | Website | Grooving JI | |||||
| Dsilton Trio | Website YouTube |
Duschscha | Georg Vogel (clavinet, synthesizer, composition) David Dornig (31-tone guitars) Valentin Duit (drumset) |
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 UnTwelve interview |
22-EDO guitar | |||||
F | |||||||
| John Farah | Website | String quartet, electronic in 19-EDO | |||||
| FFF Fiale | Bandcamp | Fabrizio Fulvio Fausto Fiale | 16-EDO instrumental guitar thrash metal and eclectic rock | Italy | |||
| 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 |
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| Glenn R. Frantz | Songs on Archive.org | Three Ragtime-Based Pieces} | Freestyle JI via computer, based on ragtime music | ||||
| Adam Freese | YouTube | Classical, electronic | |||||
| Ellen Fullman | Website Bandcamp |
Just intonation | San Francisco Bay Area, CA | known for her 70-foot (21-meter) Long String instrument, tuned in just intonation and played with rosin-coated fingers. | |||
G | |||||||
| Frédéric Gagné | YouTube | Classical, electronic | |||||
| Kyle Gann | Website MP3s on website List of compositions |
Xenharmonic JI, now with more Sitting Bull! | |||||
| Kite Giedraitis | see Tall Kite | ||||||
| Monroe Golden | Website SoundCloud |
Microtonal chamber music, microtone-informed 12-EDO | |||||
| The Gongs | Momus website | 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 Wikipedia Website Blog |
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 | |||
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| Edu Haubensak | Website | Sechs Walserminiaturen (1996) for soprano and violin | Music for retuned pianos and retuned strings | ||||
| Georg Hajdu | Website | 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 Lecture |
Acoustic chamber JI, quartertones, 19-tone pianos, with scores | |||||
| Neil Haverstick | Website | African Stick | Excerpts - guitars in 19-EDO, 31-EDO and 34-EDO | Colorado | "Stickman" has some method books and quite a few radio spots as well. | ||
| Andrew Heathwaite | Bandcamp SoundClick |
Electronic xenharmonic improvisations | |||||
| Amano Hideya | YouTube | 1 to 11 tone Equal temperament songs | Various EDOs | Tokyo Japan | |||
| Jim Horton and Bill Thibault | Bill Thibault website Info on Dartmouth website Jim Horton list of works |
Gorgeous Clothed Flies | Electronic microtonal | ||||
| Sten Hostfalt | Website CD Baby [dead link] (has a few excerpts) |
Excerpts of microtonal guitar (72-EDO) | |||||
| Horse Lords | Bandcamp | Mixtape IV | 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 | Lamentationes Jeremiae I | Modern classical electronic compositions - search website page for 'microtonal' | ||||
I | |||||||
| ILEVENS | Bandcamp YouTube Split Notes Records |
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 with listen links | Micro 1 Micro 6 |
14edo, 17edo, Bohlen-Pierce, electronic | 1980s | If you like the Residents, you'll love this. | ||
| Aaron Krister Johnson | SoundCloud Bandcamp |
The Juggler | Mostly electronic compositions and improvisations; some theatre incidental music | ||||
| JC & The Microtones | Cowpeople | Johnny Reinhard (electric bassoon) Brad Catler (electric fretless bass) Jon Catler (electric guitar) A. C. Lewis (percussion) Deborah Rothrock (vocals) |
New York City | 1984 | Rockabilly, 31edo, cowpunk | ||
| Jock Tears | Bandcamp YouTube |
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, 17edo |
| Christiaan de Jong | SoundCloud (not all microtonal) Website YouTube |
Guitar, flute and tape | |||||
| Churzkia Jrakavla | Bandcamp | Red Moon | Electronic JI; down tempo, IDM, synthwave, and ambient, with mystical/mythological themes | Vancouver, BC | 2002- | ||
| Jute Gyte | Bandcamp | The Sparrow 12" EP | Adam Kalmbach | Black metal, 24edo | Springfield, MO | 2002- | Has a relatively large following. Lots of >10 minute long quartertone black metal epics. |
K | |||||||
| Ali Deniz Kardelen | Kara Toprak (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 | About his instruments and music Discogs |
Homemade guitars, etc., in EDOs and JI, electronic, rock | Buzz Kimball builds most of his instruments himself in the workshop in his barn. Can't find listen links. Anyone got one? | ||||
| dt King | SoundClick | "Change Jar" for quartertone piano | |||||
| King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard | Wikipedia Bandcamp |
Flying Microtonal Banana 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 | |
| Wayne Kirby | YouTube | Demos, full and excerpts, mp3 and midi | |||||
| Kenneth Kirschner | Website (has download link for zipped MP3s) Archive.org |
Looong mp3 of stretched piano, etc., ambient microtonal | |||||
| Eric Knechtges | Wikipedia SoundCloud Interview |
Acoustic (choir) & electronic, various JI & EDOs | |||||
L | |||||||
| Anne La Berge | Website Label Unsounds (buy link has listen link of excerpts) |
Utter (performance art piece with Anne playing live) | Quartertone flute - go to "Releases" | ||||
| Last Sacrament | Bandcamp | Ron Sword (vocals, guitar, drums) Mike Maletta (lead guitar) Pat Horgan (bass) |
16edo death metal | Florida | 2006- | Ron also makes Sword guitars and does a lot of guitar and bass conversions. Pat also does conversions. | |
| Kade Lehman | Bandcamp SoundCloud YouTube |
Perfect Peace | Ambient, electronica, chill, jazz, jazztronica, lo-fi, lofi, minimal. | Dallas, TX | 2021- | Tuning, genre, and sound explorer. | |
| Jacky Ligon | Website | Lightweave | filmic xenharmonic music and software blog. Sometimes collaborates with Sevish. | Also makes microtonal VST synths IVOR2, FMTS2, One SF2, Font2 | |||
| Amit Lissack | Listing on New England Conservatory of Music alumni site | Electronic instrumental. | Can't find listen links. Anyone got one? | ||||
| Alvin Lucier | Wikipedia Mode Records site (includes listen links) UBUWeb (includes original 1969 recording of I Am Sitting In A Room) |
Slow-to-change cluster acoustic | |||||
| Charles Lucy | Website List of Lucy tune direct MP3s Lucy tunes lullabies info page |
Lucy tunes lullabies CD Baby [dead link] (buy page, has listen excerpt links) | Miscellaneous works in progress - also see Lucy Tuning page | ||||
M | |||||||
| Massive Audio Nerve (M.A.N.) | Wikipedia (Deutsch) Spotify |
Tony Jelencovich (vocals) Mark Fristedt (guitar) Robert Hakemo (bass) Adde Larsson (drums) + 5 former members |
24edo Nümetal | 2010-2014 | |||
| Joe Maneri | Wikipedia New York Times obituary Spotify (not all microtonal) Audio interview |
Some modern classical excerpts | Died in 2009 | ||||
| Rick McGowan | There is one of his pieces at the beginning of this microtonal podcast episode | Microtonal works for the theatre | |||||
| John McLaird | Quiet audio piece, Ogives in a Winter Shelter Belt (direct MP3 link) | 7edo, 40edo, 11-limit, Just intonation, sampled piano | |||||
| Pete McRae | Wikipedia | Eikosany blues | |||||
| Carl McTague | Website | (ii-V-I)7 and Heptadecaphonic Drops | |||||
| Melopoeia | Bandcamp | Dave Tremblay Brian Leong |
26edo black metal | Montreal, QC | Text-to-midi of Tolkien and other stories. | ||
| Claudi Meneghin | Soonlabel [dead link] YouTube |
Neobaroque music | |||||
| The Mercury Tree | Bandcamp | Ben Spees Connor Reilly Oliver Campbell Igliashon Jones |
17edo, 23edo, progressive rock, psychedelic, math rock | Portland, OR | 2007- | Newer work is all microtonal. Older works are standard or a mixture. | |
| Herman Miller | Soonlabel [dead link] Website 1 Website 2 SoundCloud YouTube |
Mizarian Porcupine Overture Ivari na taniravi |
Compositions in linear temperaments, ETs; Warped Canon; songs in conlangs | ||||
| Shaahin Mohajeri | Website | Modal, sequenced in various EDO/ADO/EDL/AIDO/ADL | |||||
| MonoNeon | Wikipedia Bandcamp |
Dywane Thomas Jr. | 24edo funk, soul, hip-hop | Tennessee | 2013-2015 (?) | Newer recordings seem to be standard tuning, but there was a lot of 24edo released around 2015. | |
| Joseph Monzo | TonalSoft website | Just intonation, jazz rock | |||||
| John Moriarty | SoundCloud | Rock and improv in various regularly tempered tunings | |||||
| Frederick Moore | Some microtonal works, electronic, other | ||||||
| Aaron Myers-Brooks | Bandcamp | 17edo Hard rock/metal on guitar | PA | 2019 | |||
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| Naegleria Fowleri | Website Bandcamp |
III Flagellate - Propulsion | Bostjan Zupancic (guitar and bass) Luna Bird (vocals) |
19edo metal | St. Johnsbury, Vermont | 2017- | Parrot singing with a xen metal project. What's not to love? |
| Ron Nagorcka | Website | Just intonation, digeridoo, synthesizers, birds... | |||||
| norokusi | YouTube Bandcamp |
Classical, contemporary and jazz in various edos | Tokyo, Japan | 2017- | |||
| Juhani Nuorvala | SoundCloud | Various tunings | |||||
O | |||||||
| Mats Öljare | Website | Contrapuntal midi in various EDOs and etc's | |||||
P | |||||||
| Tristan Parker | Website | Just intonation, free-pitch, electronic | |||||
| P-ART | Website | Paul A.R. Timmermans | Experimental | ||||
| Harry Partch | American Mavericks Harry Partch Information Center |
11-limit, Just intonation, acoustic, monophony | Oakland, CA | 1930-1972 | One of the first 20th-century composers in the West to work systematically with microtonal scales | ||
| Joseph Pehrson | Website | Blackjack, acoustic, electronic | |||||
| pfly | SoundCloud | Zlo-88 | Paul Fly | 88cET | |||
| Samuel Pellman | Website | Just intonation, Nonoctave, Equal Temperaments, electronic | |||||
| Joseph Post | MySpace | Crystal-JI, acoustic guitar | |||||
| Tom Price | https://soundcloud.com/tomprice719 | Electronic | |||||
| Kees van Prooijen | Website | Odd Piano | Bohlen-Pierce, timbre-stretched piano | ||||
| Barry Prophet | Website | Acoustic, sound sculptures | |||||
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R | |||||||
| Johnny Reinhard | Wikipedia American Festival of Microtonal Music Stereo Society Bandcamp |
Reinhard Ensemble Compositions | Acoustic polymicrotonality | New York, NY | 1981- | Founded American Festival of Microtonal Music (AFMM) | |
| Robert Rich | Website | 7-limit, just intonation, ambient | |||||
| Michael Robinson | Website | Worldly electronic microtonal | |||||
| Prent Rodgers | Website | "Music that's fake but accurate" | |||||
| Dante Rosati | Website | Just intonation, solo guitar | |||||
| Robert Ross | Website | 19edo | |||||
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| Marc Sabat | Website | Just intonation, guitar | |||||
| Carlos Sampaio | SoundClick | Electronic xenharmonics | |||||
| Scott Sandvik | Website | Slide guitar | |||||
| Edward Schocker | Website | Dramatic works - excerpts and fulls | |||||
| Margo Schulter | Website | Neo-medieval xenharmonic | |||||
| Andrew Schulze | Website | Some mp3s of electronic JI | |||||
| Ethan Schwartz | Myspace | JI music based on tetrachords, for guitar and keyboard | |||||
| X. J. Scott | Website Soundclick |
Electronic xenharmonic | |||||
| George Secor | Website | Various vintage Scalatron performances | |||||
| Dave Seidel | Website | Microtonal minimalism and ambience, using Csound | |||||
| Carlo Serafini | Website YouTube |
Electronic xenharmonic. Isomorphic keyboard: the Opal Chameleon | Florence, Italy | Futurist composer. Also, is admin on Facebook Microtonalitaly group. | |||
| Bill Sethares | Website | Truth on a Bus | Electronic xenharmonic with stretched partials | ||||
| Sevish | Website YouTube SoundCloud Bandcamp |
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 music with a beat"; stellar production quality. | London, England | 2010- | Popular (for xen). Great first xen for many people. Also runs several xen-related projects. |
| Ezra Sims | Website | Music in 72-EDO | |||||
| Gene Ward Smith | Microtonal Music by Gene Ward Smith | Sequenced originals; Mad Science Tuning; renderings of colleagues' music | |||||
| Jon Lyle Smith | Sequenced classical in odd meters | ||||||
| Sononym | YouTube | Humors | Max McCargar | Experimental electronic jazz | |||
| Jim Cole and Spectral Voices | Website | Clips of meditative New Age with overtone singing | |||||
| Soundwell (Anders Erkéus) | Soundcloud | "Snake" overtone flute | |||||
| Manfred Stahnke | Website | One piece "Partch Harp" for harp and sampled harp | |||||
| Hans-André Stamm | Website | Quartertone/48-tone JI acoustic organ! | |||||
| John Starrett | Citified Notions | John Starrett (vocals, bass) Neil Haverstick (guitar) Ernie Crews (drums) |
19-EDO. Rockabilly/Pop-rock, comment from John about the song on the YouTube page | John Starrett played bass with Neil Haverstick. Neil also plays the 19-EDO guitar on some of John's recordings. | |||
| Stimmhorn | Website | Christian Zehnder Balthasar Streiff |
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 | Website | 16-EDO and 31-EDO on 8 and 9 string guitar Etudes, Microtonal Extreme Metal | Ron was also affiliated with the Microtonal Records label and the metatonal music site, as well as the microtonal guitarist forum. | ||||
| Syzygys | Website YouTube |
Lotus Rain | Hitomi Shimizu (43-tone organ, vocals) Hiromi Nishida (violin, vocals) |
Clips of Japanese duo in 43-tone Partch JI, with Chromelodeon | Japan | ? | |
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| Tall Kite | Website SoundCloud (TallKite) SoundCloud (MbiraKite) Bandcamp |
I Hear Numbers Evening Rondo Downminor Nocturne |
Kite Giedraitis | 7-limit JI, 41edo. | Portland, Oregon (USA) | 1990's- | See also KiteGuitar.com |
| Cam Taylor | Internet Archive SoundCloud (1) SoundCloud (2) Blog |
mothers those early dreams 12tone63EDO1 |
Bosanquet Axis49, Lumatone, 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- | ||
| Jack Tickner | Facebook Bandcamp |
Reassuring Weight | Just intonation | Sydney, Australia | 2017- | ||
| 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 | |||||
| Tristan Bay | Website YouTube Bandcamp Spotify |
Pitchblende Ashland |
Electronic music, synthwave, equal temperament, instrumental | Portland, Oregon (USA) | 2021- | Xen Wiki editor, active on the XA Discord channel, and a regular on the Xendergarten podcast | |
| Tritone MSU | 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) | |||||
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| uSSSy | Ud Voyage |
Artem Galkin Pavel Eremeev |
24edo and similar tunings. Styles ranging from "black metal techno blues" to "indo-iranian meditative feedback rock" | Moscow, Russia | 2009- | ||
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| 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 | 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 | Website 1 Website 2 |
Classical, world, fractal | Indianapolis, IN | ||||
| Stephen Weigel | SoundCloud | Xenharmonic pop, computer music, totalism | |||||
| Danny Wier | Symphonic, progressive rock/metal, jazz, etc., mostly in 72-EDO (all synth-generated) | ||||||
| Randy Winchester | Five Hemispheres Comets Over Flatland |
Various EDOs and Bohlen-Pierce, electronic music and 8-bit synthesizers | |||||
| Erling Wold | Website | Classical; search page for just intonation | |||||
| Daniel Wolf | Xenharmonic neo-baroque string trio | ||||||
| Brian Wong | Website | Examples of computer-generated music | |||||
| James Wyness | Microtonal acousmatic works | ||||||
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| Zadarpadov | Bandcamp | Electronic, avant-garde | Finland | ||||
| Zhea Erose | Bandcamp YouTube |
XQQQ WXTCHCRXFT EP Glitterdance divinate |
31edo, JI, primodality, contemporary classical, ambient, electronic, "dream&bass" | 2019- | |||
| ZIA | Website Reverb Nation |
Martians | Elaine Walker and collaborators | Electronic, space, dance, 10edo, 19edo, Bohlen-Pierce, 17edo, 16edo | Las Cruces, NM / Tempe, AZ | 1992- | Elaine has also composed for the television industry. Zia is great introductory/accessible xen music. |
| Matthias Ziegler | Unconventional flute playing | ||||||
| Bostjan Zupancic: MicroMetal | Google Page Bandcamp |
Brain for Breakfast Beezer's Cellar |
Bostjan Zupancic - Guitar, Bass, Drums, Vocals, Synthesizer | 19-EDO Modern Hard Rock and Heavy Metal, and occasionally 24-EDO. | St. Johnsbury, Vermont | 2008- | |
Other
| Website | Description |
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| 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 [dead link] | Clips of junkmusic orchestra |
| Overtone Music Network | A platform for overtone music of all kinds, with a huge collection of online audio |
| 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" |
Oldani's Math&music Site [dead link]