Visual Microtonality

Visual Microtonality

By Bill Alves Our next MicroFest event will feature my Visual Music Ensemble, so here’s a little bit about this possibly puzzling title. Artists have adopted the term visual music (VM) to refer to ways artists structure abstract images or video that are analogous to...
Lou Harrison’s World of Tuning

Lou Harrison’s World of Tuning

By Bill Alves I can think of no more fitting way to inaugurate the MicroFest blog than to introduce the first event of our 2013 season, as it pays homage to a pioneer of music beyond the keys of the piano. The enchanting sounds of Lou Harrison’s music have...
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