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I’ve explored microtonality, so on the one hand, it’s like everything’s in tune, right?

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 1, 2025

It had nothing to do with the microtonality — it was about making this stuff sound vibrant and spontaneous when it’s not that at all.

From New York Times • Feb. 11, 2024

Composers working with microtonality — or with the pitches found between the notes on traditionally tuned Western instruments — are having a banner year.

From New York Times • Oct. 8, 2020

Influenced by transformative composers like Janacek, Bartok, Stravinsky and Schoenberg, Mr. Husa evolved from an early neo-Classical idiom through experiments with atonality, serialism, microtonality and indeterminacy to reach his distinctive style.

From New York Times • Jan. 4, 2017

While there is traditional singing, pitches are not always tuned to a rigorous tempered scale but allow for expressive microtonality, something true of the marimbas as well.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 8, 2015