If you’re a Live user who wants to go beyond regular tuning and explore the world of microtonal scales, Ableton’s free Microtuner MIDI device could be right up your street. With microtuning, you can ...

LIKE MANY masters of the craft, Naseeruddin Saami took up singing when he was a child. His family, which moved from Delhi to Karachi in the wake of the Partition of India, included several qawwals ...

Is there anything LEGO can’t do, aside from turning to a soft gelatin when a human steps on one? The incredible range of piece sizes that make them such versatile building blocks extends their utility ...

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 ...

By exploring intervals beyond the 12-note scale of Equal Temperament, microtonal music challenges normative Western ideas of beauty and “correctness”. It can be used to push already extreme music off ...

With a swirling whirl of wind, Flying Microtonal Banana begins — and what an intriguing place it'll take you to. "We ended up giving everyone a budget of $200 to buy instruments and turn them ...