Ben Johnston requested that for the concert celebrating his 80th birthday at REDCAT on Wednesday, the audience be handed program notes only on the way out. He wanted the music to speak for itself. It ...

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 ...

When local luthier John Starrett gave Neil Haverstick a nineteen-tone guitar thirty years ago, the latter was faced with a challenge: what to do with seven additional notes per octave? Like most ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. If you're a guitarist, changing the tuning of your instrument is as easy as twisting the machine ...

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 ...

While King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard may have only just released their Nonagon Infinity this spring, the Aussie psych warriors are coming back into our lives early next year with a pile of new ...

This unclassifiable Quebecois duo is having a viral moment after their performance on KEXP. Angine de Poitrine were already saturating my social media feeds before Rick Beato shone a spotlight on them ...