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These categories are somewhat arbitrary; many of these projects are multi-faceted.
Microtonal organizations
- Boston Microtonal Society — founded 1998; permanent chamber ensemble NotaRiotous founded 2005; spring and fall concerts.
- British Harry Partch Society (????-????)
- Institute for the Advancement of Aural Arts (IAAA) — Ron Sword's lecture collective.
- OddMusic Urbana-Champaign (Illinois) — instrument-building, scale-building composers collective, with emphasis on face-to-face musical meetings.
- Microtonal Projects Ltd. (UK) — founded 2004 by Drs. Bousted.
- Project XVII (Lima-Perú) — 17 edo and microtonal harmony.
- Huygens-Fokker Foundation — English version
- Stichting Huygens-Fokker (Amsterdam) — promoting especially 31-tone music, well-maintained website with increasingly frequent events! — Dutch version
- The Xenharmonic Alliance (c. 1958-active) — Ivor Darreg's mail-driven network of exchanging microtonal music and ideas, which gradually morphed into an online social group.
- UnTwelve (Chicago) — a Midwest-based project offering concerts, listening parties, and a composition competition.
- World Harmony Project (Florida, most active 1992-2005) — world music with Denny Genovese's just intonation percussion orchestra.
- Ekmelic Music Society/Gesellschaft für Ekmelische Musik (Austria), main focus is on 72edo, overtone music.
Microtonal festivals and events
- American Festival of Microtonal Music (New York) — festival founded by Johnny Reinhard in 1981(?). See also PITCH label.
- Bohlen-Pierce Symposium (Boston, 2010) — first symposium on the Bohlen-Pierce scale.
- Festival (Da)(Ne)S 2011 (Slovenia) — this edition of KIBLA's festival focused on microtonality. Organized by Cameron Bobro.
- Just Intonation Network (Bay Area) — in need of assistance in organizing since spring 2006!
- Microfest (LA area) — Annual festival founded in 1997.
- MMMDay06 (internet, 4/8/2006) — a convergence of microtonal music making. Final product: a podcast.
- Music for People and Thingamajigs Festival (Bay area) — Annual festival founded in 1997, focused on odd instruments and tunings.
- Xenharmonic Praxis Summer Camp (West Virginia) — Summer camp for microtonal composition and performance started in 2011.
- MMMMonth 2023 - May revival initiative led by JacobBarton and whomever else steps up
Microtonal Record Labels
- split-notes — Microtonal-with-a-beat Netlabel.
- Microtonal Record Shelf (?)
- Xen-Arts — Microtonal Netlabel
- Spectropol — small-run/netlabel; not exclusively microtonal but very xen-heavy
Microtonal media, publishing, archives
- IAAA Webstore — guitar scale books by Ron Sword
- Frog Peak — artist-run composers' collective dedicated to publishing and producing experimental and unusual works.
- The North American Embassy of Anaphoria Island archives of Microtonal materials including Erv Wilson, Joel Mandelbaum, and Kraig Grady
- The Microtonal Activist (2001) — an e-zine by Jacky Ligon.
- Xenharmonikon Online magazine launched in 2018. Editors include Bill Alves, Kraig Grady, and more. Follows Xenharmonikôn, a journal founded by John Chalmers in 1974.
Instrument-focused projects
- http://www.tolgahancogulu.com/en/microtonal-guitar/ Tolgahan Çoğulu's microtonal guitar research, adjustable frets are used, cooperation with John Schnieder:
- http://www.otherminds.org/shtml/Schneider.shtml
- Microtonal Trumpet
- Quartertone Marimba (Oslo, 2004-2008) — Ph.D. project by Kjell Tore Innervik
- SeventeenTonePianoProject (Houston, 2006-2008) — four concertst using pianos tuned to 17 equal divisions of the octave.
- Bohlen-Pierce Clarinet Project — by Stephen Fox.
- Alternative Tuning Projects (London, 1998) — Patrick Ozzard-Low's study and proposal for 21st-Century Orchestral Instruments.
- Microtonal Music Study using specialized chromatic keyboards and Web Audio API, a set of microtonal electronic keyboard instruments implementing different microtonal systems and build on the common platform, Web-browser based, with the embedded instrument sound synthesis based on Web Audio API. The instruments are played on a 10-finger touchscreen, but also can be played with a mouse/touchpad and, in some cases and to a limited extent, on a computer keyboard. There is an application for the development of the synthesized instrument sound; the result of the synthesis can be used by all the instruments.
Mini-initiatives on this wiki
- ProgressReport: tell your story!
- Tuning of the Month Club (Discord)
- Monthly Tunings (Facebook)
- MMMMonth07 — a proposal/brainstorm that wasn't acted upon.
- Porcupine Album Project (2012)
- The Enigma Assignment: resulted in much original music
WikiProjects
- Wikifuture, for general long-term plans for the wiki.
- WikiProject TempClean, for the cleanup of our deluge of regular temperament articles.
- WikiProject Mospage, for a similar cleanup effort for MOS-related articles
Sisters to Microtonality
- electroacoustic music
- non-western musics
- DIY instrument making (including oddmusic and junkmusic)
- a capella music (including barbershop)
- music therapy / spiritual music / meditative music
- derriere-garde music (alternate-history, neo- )
- overtone music (see the Overtone Music Network)