The Beyond: Microtonal Music Festival returns to Pittsburgh this weekend. Microtonal music, according to festival organizers, “expands the possibilities of sound by using tuning systems beyond, or in ...

Drawn to imaginative ideas about sound and pitch, musician and composer Dean Drummond found the traditional instruments of European classical music inadequate to perform the seemingly “out of tune” ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by The composer Matthew Sheeran, brother of the pop star Ed Sheeran, discusses how he translated microtonal electronic music for a chamber orchestra. By ...

PLUGIN WEEK 2023: Visualise the keys of a piano, then imagine the frets on a guitar. These instruments divide music into semitones - a series of steps that are used to construct scales and the ...

If you're a guitarist, changing the tuning of your instrument is as easy as twisting the machine heads at the end, but pianists are restricted to the static 88 notes that they're given. Or rather they ...

Press play on any gray audio player to hear samples of microtonal compositions. Imagine drawing a sweeping landscape — Chicago’s lovely skyline, say, or maybe a sunset — but you’re stuck using crayons ...

Restless Australian psych-rock crew King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard have always released music at a rapid pace -- their most recent album, Nonagon Infinity, came out back in April -- but they've just ...

While King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard may have only just released their Nonagon Infinity this spring, the Aussie psych warriors are coming back into our lives early next year with a pile of new ...