Whether making microtonal pop or playing Renaissance instruments with sheep bones, a crop of bold artists are making genuinely strange music go mainstream – but are they at the mercy of the algorithm?

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The pop and rock mavericks who have used microtonal music in unexpected and glorious ways. It is universally agreed that there are 12 notes in Western music. And generally 88 of these are represented ...

Press play on any gray audio player to hear samples of microtonal compositions. Imagine drawing a sweeping landscape — Chicago’s lovely skyline, say, or maybe a sunset — but you’re stuck using crayons ...

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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” ...

Ben Johnston, a prolific and influential composer who used microtonal tuning systems to create a large and varied catalog of chamber works, stage pieces and music for orchestra, choir, voice and solo ...

The Congress of Arab Music, held in Cairo in 1932, was the first international scientific forum on non-European music to bring together distinguished composers, scholars, performers and educators from ...