Ever heard of an adapted viola? What about a chromalodeon? Or a harmonic canon? They're all instruments invented by avante-garde composer Harry Partch. Partch was a California native who threw out ...

PLUGIN WEEK 2023: Visualise the keys of a piano, then imagine the frets on a guitar. These instruments divide music into semitones - a series of steps that are used to construct scales and the ...

Even in the shadow of a mountain of evidence that says otherwise, Neil Haverstick insists he’s not a guitar master. The microtonal and fretless guitar player is a composer, author and instructor who ...

This story is free to read because readers choose to support LAist. If you find value in independent local reporting, make a donation to power our newsroom today. John Cage (1912-1992) is one of the ...

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 ...

Turkish guitarist Tolgahan Çoğulu spent two years and using 3D printing and Lego bricks to develop his microtonal guitar after being inspired by his son's love of Lego. The Lego Microtonal Guitar ...

Epiphanies come, as epiphanies do, in unexpected and often far-flung settings. For trumpeter Amir ElSaffar, three such horizon-openers converge in his latest album, New Quartet Live at Pierre Boulez ...

Ben Johnston, a prolific and influential composer who used microtonal tuning systems to create a large and varied catalog of chamber works, stage pieces and music for orchestra, choir, voice and solo ...

Of course, jazz has always been microtonal, with bends and glisses a fundamental part of its blues-based language: just listen to Billie Holiday’s singing or Johnny Hodges’ alto saxophone. But it’s ...