Ever heard of an adapted viola? What about a chromalodeon? Or a harmonic canon? They're all instruments invented by avante-garde composer Harry Partch. Partch was a California native who threw out ...

Drawn to imaginative ideas about sound and pitch, musician and composer Dean Drummond found the traditional instruments of European classical music inadequate to perform the seemingly “out of tune” ...

Tonight marks the return of John Schneider & Just Strings playing the music, and custom-built microtonal instruments of Harry Partch at the Redcat. The event is part of MicroFest 2005, an annual event ...

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 ...

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 ...

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Among the dozen members inducted last month into the prestigious American Academy of Arts and Letters were historian Ron Chernow, playwright Terrence McNally, novelist George Saunders and artist Jenny ...

UPDATE: We wrote “at the rate they release stuff, King Gizzard & The Wizard Lizzard might have a new LP by the time of the tour.” Little did we know they’d be releasing FIVE new LPs in 2017. The first ...