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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!

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…

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…

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…

EMF_2017 online Programme HERE IT IS! Full EUROMicroFest programme!

Christian Klinkenberg’s first opera Das Kreuz der Verlobten (The Cross of the Engaged) was premiered in February 2017. Western music theory operates within the boundaries of a 12 tone octave. By splitting up the octave into microtones however, a composer is given a broader array of possibilities. Possibly infinite possibilities. How to deal with infinity? Can the ratios of the harmonic series provide…