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 ...

Julián Carrillo was the great problem of Mexican music. Born in 1875, he invented a system of microtonal music in the 1920s and was possibly the most visionary composer Latin America ever produced, ...

Ben Johnston, a prolific and influential composer who used microtonal tuning systems to create a large and varied catalog of chamber works, stage pieces and music for orchestra, choir, voice and solo ...

Outfitted with an amazing array of custom-built microtonal instruments, Partch, continues its ongoing survey of the profound music of Harry Partch with two evenings of microtonal music and ...

Microtonal instruments are designed specifically to allow you to play intervals smaller than a semitone. On this, their ninth album, Australian psych-rockers KGLW doctored their guitars, bass and ...