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Here are just some of the people that make up microtonal.org. Members, if you would like to be listed, post a message on the MakeMicroMusic forum with the pertinent information (name, home page, musical background).
Musician/Webmaster: Jon Szanto
Home Page: Ick, no way. Instead, go see Corporeal Meadows
Background: Musician from an early age, met up with microtonality working with Harry Partch (see above), has written and performed music for many situations and scenarios. Likes iconoclastic behavior in people.
Musician: Christopher Bailey
Home Page: Chris Bailey home page
Background: interested in all genres of microtonal and xenharmonic exploration, his recent work draws especially from/on:
spectral techniques (of
Tristan Murail,
Gerard Grisey, etc.) for his pieces SLIII: Trio
and The Quiet Play of Lights, 19-tone equal temperament (applied in
serial designs) for his work-in-progress Sands II, and Just Intonation, also in Sands II, and in
Kiss of the Gamelan Goddess. A neo-classic tonal work, a Piano Sonata, is
also available in an adaptive
7-limit tuned version.
Musician: Graham Breed
Home Page: Graham's New Microtonal Site
Background: Graham's Microtonal site is a very good source of information as well as pointers to music and other resources. Some day he'll tell us a little bit about himself...
Musician: Rick McGowan
Home Page: Page of the Moment
Background: Rick is a denizen of Silicon Valley with a variegated background in music, writing, anthropology, computers. (The latter pays the bills.) He studied at Univ of Washington & U.C. Berkeley. Semi-amateur composer of microtonal ballet music (mainly), and some incidental music for theater productions. See the home page for samples as well as photos, poetry, prose, and pointers.
Musician: Alison Monteith
Home Page: The Unstruck Sound Orchestra
Background: See above...
Musician: Joe Monzo
Home Page: Monz' Home Page
Background: I am a composer music-theorist, author, software developer, teacher, performer, arranger, artist, cartographer, locksmith, and pacifist.
Musician: Joseph Pehrson
Home Page: Composers Concordance
Background: Composer-pianist (b. Detroit, 1950) has written works for a wide variety of media including orchestra and chamber works. They have been performed at numerous venues including Merkin Hall, Weill Recital Hall, Symphony Space in New York and throughout the U.S. and Eastern Europe. Since 1983 Mr. Pehrson has been co-director of the Composers Concordance in New York. He studied at the Eastman School of Music and the University of Michigan (DMA 1981). Pehrson's teachers included composers Leslie Bassett, Joseph Schwantner, and, informally, Otto Luening and Elie Siegmeister in New York
Musician: X. J Scott
Home Page: Red
Barn Goat Farm
Background: "A farmer, goatsman, and designer who dwells in the Appalachian foothills of East Tennessee,
enjoys working with a variety of tuning systems, but has a special place in his heart for nonoctave tunings. Some examples of his work may be found at the above site."
Musician: Bill Sethares
Home Page: Main home page, with an additional page of mp3 files right here.
Background: Bill says: "Each of us plays several roles in life. Some of my favorite are: researcher, teacher, and musician."
Musician: Robert Walker
Home Page: Robert's Tunes Home Page
Background: Mathematician by training, inventor, programmer of Fractal Tune Smithy, and amateur composer - see/listen to some mp3s right here.
Musician: George Zelenz
Home Page: N/A - George suggests Frog Peak Music (a composers collective)
Background: You'll have to ask him back at the forum...
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