Text and Tuning: Accordant Commons at Automata

Text and Tuning: Accordant Commons at Automata

By Argenta Walther On May 7th, MicroFest will present the vocal music group Accordant Commons, performing a diverse array of microtonal vocal works by Daniel Corral, Nomi Epstein, Evan Johnson and Leah Reid. What Draws Us to Microtonality: We feel that the voice is...
Genesis of an Eroica

Genesis of an Eroica

by Chris Banta How the original Marimba Eroica began: Back in the 1950’s, composer, Harry Partch, a philosophic music man seduced into carpentry, designed and built musical instruments to fit his special micro-tonal scales. To accommodate the lower region of the...
Massed Microtonal Guitars!

Massed Microtonal Guitars!

By Felix Salazar is a chamber group of eight electric guitarists dedicated to revitalizing chamber music for a new generation of listeners. The octet’s repertoire spans the late Renaissance to the present day, ranging from the polychoral music of Giovanni Gabrieli to...
The Semaphores send Morse-code

The Semaphores send Morse-code

by Wolfgang von Schweinitz (MicroFest will feature soprano Rebecca Tomlinson giving the American premiere of Wolfgang von Schweinitz’s “O-Ton “Automne” – Linguistikherbst” on our April 11th concert at the Russian Hall. Click here for more information –...
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...
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