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, they all vote on the tuning they 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.

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.

2016

February and March - Pajara

Little Prelude & Fugue in Pajara by Claudi Meneghin

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

August - 17-tone equal and well-temperaments

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

Halve Knot (demo) by Mercury Tree

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

Modes for Strings #7 by Prent Rodgers

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

We Wish You a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! (online Christmas card) by Stephen Weigel

2018

Todo: add examples

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