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ISPILU
A ground-breaking recording project by Lore Amenabar Larrañaga I really enjoyed listening to this new CD of quarter-tone accordion works by Claudia Molitor, David Gorton, Donald Bousted, Mioko Yokoyama, Michael Finnissy, Christopher Fox, Electra Perivolaris and Veli Kujala. The CD is available here and on all digital platforms. Please have a listen!
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Das Stimmt!! with strings attached
As part of EUROMicroFest 2024, we will once again host a concert in Freiburg, Germany (8th March, 2024, 8pm) under the title ‘Das Stimmt!!’ – this time ‘with strings attached!’ It will be held at the Elisabeth Schneider Stiftung, Weinschlösschen Freiburg, and focusses on microtonal trumpet and flugelhorn (Stephen Altoft) with strings, using local musicians,…
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The Microtonal Trumpet-and Flugelhorn ‘Time Dreaming’ Tour
Stephen Altoft will be back in the UK in February giving a short tour on the 19-division trumpet and microtonal flugelhorn (19-and 24-divisions of the octave). He will be appearing at the Universities of Huddersfield, Manchester and Cambridge. This is the first tour using the microtonal flugelhorn! At Huddersfield he will play a concert dedicated…
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Donald’s Birthday
19.5 Playlist To mark the birthday of our late friend and artistic director of Microtonal Projects, Donald Bousted, on 21st November, we are releasing three movements of his 19.5, recorded live to video by duo Contour. They which were originally one online performance made as part of the ‘Mikrotöne: Small is Beautiful’ Symposium hosted by…
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Mikrotöne: Small is Beautiful IV
Our longterm partners, The International Ekmelic Society have released the 4th Journal of the presentations from the 2021 edition of the ‘Mikrotöne: Small is Beautiful’ Symposium, at which Donald gave his last presentation- on 19.5, with duo Contour. Patrick Ozzard-Low provided an article reflecting on this work, together with a Foreword by trumpeter, and long time…
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FLOW
FLOW duo consists of Johannes Nied, double bass, and Stephen Altoft, 19-div trumpet and 19-div flugelhorn. Founded during the pandemic, playing in public parks, they then began creating special performances for their playlist on YouTube. Stephen contributed photos and video after the audio recording sessions. They are influenced by the outdoors, nature and are concerned…
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Donald Bousted’s 19.5
Donald Bousted’s 19.5 for 19-division Trumpet and malletKAT has been described as a tour de force in 19-divisions-of-the-octave tuning. Written for long time collaborators of his, duo Contour, it begins with the recognisable materials (from the point of view of 12-EDO) and by the time the cycle finishes it is a poly-microtonal landscape. Now, two…
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Time Dreaming
from 22-24 March, the Microtonal Trumpet project returned to the north of England after a 15 year absence to present works from the RASP, TIME DREAMING and THE YASSER COLLECTION albums, and to give premiers by Richard Whalley and James Williamson- all for the 19-div trumpet! We are very happy to share the live (video)…
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Lud’s Church
Check out the video of the premier of Richard Whalley’s Lud’s Church from the North of England project at Manchester University at the end of March. There are ten virtual and one live 19-division trumpet. Richard writes: ‘Lud’s Church is a surprisingly deep chasm, hidden in the woodland of the Peak District in Staffordshire, England.…
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Microtonal Trumpet UK Premiers, March 2023
Stephen Altoft, 19-division trumpeter, will give the World Premier of Richard Whalley’s Lud’s Church UK Premier of Donald Bousted’s Time Dreaming in Manchester on 23rd March at the University of Manchester. He will also give the UK Premier of Antenna by Dong Zhou. Programme includes music by Stephen himself, Eleri Angharad Pound and Elizabeth Adams.…