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  • “Seven Leaves” – An interactive musical narrative by Christian Klinkenberg

    PHOTOS FROM THIS EVENT

    Christian Klinkenberg’s new Bohlen-Pierce composition ‘Seven Leaves’ was first performed on the 27th of April in the cultural center “Alter Schlachthof” Eupen (Belgium) with the Kl-Ex Ensemble. There will be a further performance on November 20th, 2018 in the “AINSI” Theater Maastricht (NL).

    The musicians

    • Nora-Louise Müller: Bohlen-Pierce Clarinet
    • Todd Harrop: Bohlen-Pierce ChimesÂ
    • Franck Hemmerle: Percussion
    • Vedran Mutic: Bohlen-Pierce-E-BassÂ
    • Melle Weijters: Bohlen-Pierce-E-Guitar
    • Christian Klinkenberg: Bohlen-Pierce Keyboard
    • Paul Pankert: ViolinÂ
    • Suse Weisse: Storyteller
    • Lothar Felten: Interactive App
    • Jens Schumacher: Samples and real-time-fx
    • Marc Kirschvink: Paintings

     

    Plot

    A story about lost love, an evil witch, an enchanted tree, and the leaves that hung, but never grew is integrated in the performance.

    The scale

    The Bohlen Pierce scale is a 13-step non octave scale which is tempered to the perfect-twelfth (3/1). For this reason, the musicians have specially constructed instruments (clarinet, keyboard, chimes). The string instruments (e-guitar, bass, violin) also need to retune their strings and have to increase the spacing of the fingerings or frets by about half.

    The app

    The special feature of this performance: the audience can play along via an app.

    Partners

    EUROMicroFest, Chudoscnik Sunergia, IMPACT (International Meeting in Performing Arts and Creative Technologies), Jazz Maastricht

    Photos by Peter Ortmann

     

  • EASTER release of RASP!

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    Buy RASP now from Tutti for only £12

    Download the full programme notes: RASP CD Programme Notes

    11 new tracks all for Stephen Altoft’s unique 19-div trumpet

    We really hope you love it!  We’re already preparing the next release!

  • RASP new CD released soon!

    In a few weeks time Stephen Altoft is releasing his new CD, RASP.  To whet your appetites the full CD notes can be downloaded here: RASP CD Programme Notes.  Stephen is presenting 11 recently written pieces in 19-division tuning.  Like the Yasser Collection before it, these pieces are diverse in orientation and international in outlook.  The CD, presented as a Digipack, will be available through Tutti.

    RASP

  • The 19-division Trumpet

    This is the final video in our introductory Series.  We are planning more, so please contact us if you would like us to cover something specifically.

  • Eighth-Tones on the Trumpet

    New Video, the 3rd of 4 …

  • 2nd Video – Introducing the Quarter-Tone Studies from Donald Bousted’s ’24 Microtonal Studies’

  • The Microtonal Trumpet

    We have re-shot the videos from our old website introducing The Microtonal Trumpet.  Here’s the first, which introduces the concept of the trumpet as ‘natural’ microtonal instrument.

  • small is beautiful

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    We are delighted to be partners of this International Symposium on microtonality – SMALL IS BEAUTIFUL. The full programme is attached and the quality and range of presentations speaks for itself.  Held at the Mozarteum University Salzburg, this has got to be an event not to miss for microtonalists.  Curated and organised by microtonal guitarist and composer Agustín Castilla-Ávila of the International Ekmelic Music Society.

  • Hale/Kurth Finale to EUROMicroFest 2017

    Casey Hale
    Casey Hale
    The final concert of EUROMicroFest 2017 (Saturday, 20:30 Uhr, E-Werk) involves two stalwart MicroFest performers, Stephen Altoft (19-div trumpet) and Lee Ferguson (percussion) – duo Contour.  This time with Casey Hale (USA), 19-div Guitar and Jan F. Kurth (DE), Voice.

    Casey Hale is an American composer, guitarist and musicologist living in Bristol, UK.  He received his doctorate in composition from the City University of New York, where his research explored improvised music through the lens of cultural studies. His compositions have been performed by the American Symphony Orchestra, Da Capo Chamber Players, and TRANSIT ensemble, among others, and his recent efforts have

    been focused on microtonal harmonic resources.

     

    Enneadecahedron is a project in 19-tone equal temperament for electric guitar, trumpet and percussion. It explores the ambiguities in how we hear music that divides the octave into nineteen parts, playing with a variety of harmonic interpretations like varying perspectives on a nineteen-sided object. The fragmentary movements that comprise the work form an evolving collection, a modular series of studies opening out onto a work perpetually in-progress.

     

    Jan F. Kurth (c) Doradzillo
    Jan F. Kurth
    Jan F. Kurth (*1982) is a singer, impov musician and composer. He grew up in Cologne and studied Jazz Voice, Recorder, electronic music and music pedagogy at the Hochschule für Musik in Dresden as well as flm music composition at the Hochschule für Musik in Freiburg. In 2005 and 2006 he was a project fellow at Fabrica Musica, Treviso/Italy and in 2008 at Akademie Schloss Solitude in Stuttgart/Germany. His focus lies on exploring ways of expression for the voice in different contexts, with and without lyrics, and the connection of music, language, image and movement. He lives in Freiburg, Germany.
    His new piece, Das System is in 19-division tuning with a text by Michael Spyra.

  • EUROMicroFest 2017 – Full Programme

    EMF_2017 online Programme

    HERE IT IS! Full EUROMicroFest programme!