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https://stephenaltoft.bandcamp.com/album/rasp

We have been aware that buying RASP (Stephen Altoft’s 2nd CD of 19-div music) through Tutti is expensive, because of postage and packing charges, if you live at various points around the world.  We have therefore added it to Bandcamp.  We hope you will still buy it!  Although you get 3 listens for free!

Also, we have added Steve’s first solo 19-div CD The Yasser Collection to our Dropbox Resources.  This is now available FREE if you have signed up to The Microtonal Trumpet mailing list via the contact page.

13 December, 2018 Forum Neue Musik, 7pm

Staatliche Hochschule für Musik Mannheim, Germany. Works by Stephen Altoft, Donald Bousted and Carlos Cotallo Solares (WP). Performed by DUO CONTOUR.

There will be a presentation by Donald Bousted, composer and Artistic Director of Microtonal Projects, on the 19-division Tuning during the afternoon (2.30-4pm) for the composition class of Prof. Sidney Corbett.

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

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!

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.

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.

New Video, the 3rd of 4 …

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-2017

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.