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I've been making and performing music in many styles since I was a kid, and have been increasingly flirting with non-12edo. Like every other xen musician I'm also a programmer.
Favorite tunings
I like small EDOs. So far I've worked mostly with 5 and 13.
I enjoy just intonation but generally keep things 7-limit with only incidental use of 11- and 13-based intervals, which mostly sound very discordant to me.
Non-Western music
I'm an avid player of central Javanese gamelan. While gamelan tuning is certainly a deep topic, I'm not as interested in that aspect of it compared to the melodies, the system of modes and elaborations, and the social/cultural/philosophical aspects of the music.
I have also been trying to correct misinformation propagated in the xen community about non-Western tunings; many claims about approximating EDOs/JI/temperaments range from questionable to completely wrong. For example, Javanese slendro is not 5edo. Many gamelan are closer to 5edo than a 12edo pentatonic scale, but the tones are still uneven on most gamelan, and players certainly don't think of the tones as even given the strong differences in feeling between slendro manyuro and slendro songo. Also, the common claim that Thai classical music is 7edo has been debunked by John Garzoli.
Editing
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