Equal Temperament

The Beyond: Microtonal Music Festival returns to Pittsburgh this weekend. Microtonal music, according to festival organizers, "expands the possibilities of sound by using tuning systems beyond, or in addition to, the standard 12-note equal temperament common in Western classical and popular music." One of the event's highlights is Ellen Fullman's

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Bach's most influential pedagogical work turns 300 this year. But what's so "well-tempered" about this clavier, and what's a "clavier," anyway?

Since the beginning of my software career, I was taught a slogan: TEAM means Together Everyone Achieves More. However, for a long time, my idea of being a team player did not go quite far besides…

Anglada-Tort et al. use online singing experiments to study oral transmission mechanisms in US and Indian participants. The results show how individual participant biases—vocal, cognitive, and cultural—shape the evolution of musical structures but that social biases are crucial for determining differences and similarities in resulting structures.

Machine-learning algorithms are getting so good that they can translate Western instruments into Thai ones with ease.

Eventide's first Eurorack sequencer, the Misha, ditches traditional music composition for intervals and tone rows..

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Ever had that musical crisis where you realise there are only 12 notes in music, and only so many combinations to use them? That crisis that nothing is original anymore and everything you have written has already been written? Yeah we all get that at some point. It goes away when you learn that there […]

Machine-learning algorithms allow composers to create all-new instruments.

Sevish's resources for microtonal music. Scale Workshop, tuning packs, Bitwig presets, Max 4 Live patches and Pure Data instruments.

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What would DNA sound if synthesized

Abstract From the mid-third century b.c.e., Chinese experts used the manipulation of sound as a technology to synchronize society with the cosmos. In the Western Han, the polymath Jing Fang 京房 (78–37 b.c.e.) detected an acoustical problem, known in the West as the Pythagorean comma, in the musical system. In the Chinese system, the comma is characterized by a minute but audible discrepancy, a gap between two…

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Jules Reidy's lush, disorienting songs juxtapose serene melodies with unpredictable and often unmetered rhythms.

The Frequency Festival's 2023 lineup includes the first Chicago appearance of French composer Pascale Criton, the just-intonation guitar experiments of Berlin-based Julia Reidy, and the premiere of Aperiodic's commission from Swedish composer Magnus Granberg.

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Instrumentalplaying techniques such as vibratos, glissandos, and trills often denote musical expressivity, both in classical and folk contexts. However, most existing approaches to music similarity retrieval fail to describe timbre beyond the so-called "ordinary" technique, use instrument identity as a proxy for timbre quality, and do not allow for customization to the perceptual idiosyncrasies of a new subject. In…