On The Passing of Barbara Hero
Barbara Hero left us on August 9, 2021 at the age of 96. She gave us a unique...
An Interview with Juhani Nuorvala
KG: May I ask how you first became interested in microtones? JN: I never had that early experience...
The Symmetry of a Tonnetz, Un-transposable Harmonic Modes, and Modes of Synthesised Inversional Symmetry.
In a letter to John Chalmers, written on April 26, 1975 Erv Wilson writes the following: “The basic...
The Axial Chord — A Basis for 2.3.7.11 Harmony
Introduction: In this paper I discuss the chord 32:33:42:44:56 as the basis for a new harmonic system, comparing...
A COUNT OF CONSTANT STRUCTURES – with 4 distinct superparticular 7 limit steps with sizes between 5/4 and 126/125 that span the 7 limit lattice
If a 7-limit octave equivalent scale has four distinct step sizes, with ratios W, X, Y and Z,...
The Brass Whisperer
Composing for the standard double horn using extended just intonation(and other non-standard tuning systems) by Dr. Michael H...
Well Temperament Revisited: Two Tunings for Two Keyboards a Quartertone Apart in Extended JI
for Johann Sebastian Bach Berlin, February 2019 Temperaments are sets of pitches in which some or all of...
“Grateful for Ervin Wilson”
In 1995 I was a 3d artist at Walt Disney Feature Animation writing code to render animated features....
Virtual Analog Microtonality in VCV Rack
One of the most interesting computer music software developments of the past few years has been the advent...
Forward (excerpt) to ‘Microtonality and The Tuning Systems of Erv Wilson’
Ervin M. Wilson was arguably the most creative music theorist in the world of alternative scales and tunings....
