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, we all vote on the tuning we 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.
February and March 2016: Pajara
Claudi Meneghin’s Little Prelude & Fugue in Pajara
April 2016: Sensi
Claudi Meneghin · Sensi Tocada
May 2017: 19edo
June 2016: 37edo
Claudi Meneghin · Little Twyelyghte Musicke (37edo) for 2 Cornetts, 2 Sagbutts & Timpani
Claudi Meneghin · Canon in F, 37edo
I do not know if she is saying the truth by Igor Livramento
July 2016: Superpyth
Highlights - Triadic Superpyth Study by William Lynch
Super Chill by William Lynch
August 2016: 17-tone equal and well-temperaments
Demanding Two Faces by Stephen Weigel
Where were you During the Apocalypse? by Stephen Weigel
September and October 2016: Porcupine
Claudi Meneghin · Little Fugue in Porcupine
November 2016: 21edo
"Bueno Pa Gozar" (by Kite Giedraitis, salsa-esque piece loosely based on Oye Coma Va)
Iridescent Wenge Fugue by Stephen Weigel, accepted into SEAMUS 2018 and EABD 2018
Claudi Meneghin · 21edo Chacony, for harpsichord
December 2016: Fibonacci tuning (look on page 22 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.
January 2017: Bohlen-Pierce
A Mean Little Voice by Stephen Weigel
February 2017: 19edo
March 2017: 26edo
Canon 3-in-1 on a ground ‘The tempest’, by Claudi Meneghin
April 2017: Semaphore
May 2017: 11edo
Halve Knot (demo) by Mercury Tree
June 2017: Mavila
Gamelan, Genesis, and Birth by Stephen Weigel, played by the Beo String Quartet
Hunger Wanders in an Empty Room by Stephen Weigel
Kôsma jumiś lul by Herman Miller
Mavila Fugue by Claudi Meneghin
July 2017: Marvel Woo
Marvelous River by William Lynch
A Short Composition in Marvel Woo by Chris Vaisvil
Cave of Marvels by Herman Miller
Hallelujah in Marvel Woo (cover)
August 2017: 20edo
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
20edo Ambient Guitar with Video by Chris Vaisvil
Spinning the Web by Herman Miller
Chacony & Fugue in 20edo by Claudi Meneghin
September 2017: 72edo
Modes for Strings #7 by Prent Rodgers
October and November 2017: 46edo
Curiosity Finds a Frown by Stephen Weigel (this is in 23-edo - 23 is half of 46, so it counts!)
December 2017: 15edo
We Wish You a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! (online Christmas card) by Stephen Weigel
January 2018: 18edo
The Moon by Noah Jordan, this was done with acoustic piano
De-Void of Re-Incarnation by Stephen Weigel (fixed media)
Revealing the Path by Herman Miller
February 2018: 10edo
Padanian Canon in 10edo (Claudi Meneghin)
English Theorbo, in wandelwonderland, Fantasy for Piano by Chris Vaisvil
Diablo by Kewti
Ten-Armed Hunter by Herman Miller
March 2018: 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.
Cam Taylor's Monarda Impressions
Tannic Acid (comparison), Chris Vaisvil
Nowhere in Super Particular by Stephen Weigel
April 2018: 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
May 2018: 31edo
Contrapunctus 11 tuned to 31edo by Claudi Meneghin (original composer J. S. Bach)