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    Blue by sound: the microtonal legacy of composer and theorist Clarence Barlow

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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

Praveen Venkataramana·July 20, 2019
If a 7-limit octave equivalent scale has four distinct step sizes, with ratios W, X, Y and Z,...
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The Brass Whisperer

Michael Dixon·July 14, 2019
Composing for the standard double horn using extended just intonation(and other non-standard tuning systems) by Dr. Michael H...
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for Johann Sebastian Bach Berlin, February 2019 Temperaments are sets of pitches in which some or all of...
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“Grateful for Ervin Wilson”

Marcus Hobbs·May 3, 2019
In 1995 I was a 3d artist at Walt Disney Feature Animation writing code to render animated features....
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Virtual Analog Microtonality in VCV Rack

Warren Burt·April 28, 2019
One of the most interesting computer music software developments of the past few years has been the advent...
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Foreword (excerpt) to ‘Microtonality and The Tuning Systems of Erv Wilson’

John H. Chalmers·October 6, 2018
Ervin M. Wilson was arguably the most creative music theorist in the world of alternative scales and tunings....
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Erv Wilson Remembered

Gary David·October 3, 2018
ERV WILSON, COSMIC DREAMER (1928-2016) by Gary David   ABSTRACT I knew Erv Wilson for over fifty years...
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Ervin Wilson

Stephen James Taylor·October 3, 2018
I consider myself one of those composers who is never happy with the established order of things. So...
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FROM THE EDITOR   It is with great pleasure that we relaunch Xenharmonikon. It has been a long...
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