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 ...

“In the cracks” is the operative phrase for microtonal music. This is music with notes and scales that fall between those of conventional Western music, which assigns 12 pitches to an octave. Tuning ...

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 ...

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 ...

Researchers at Australia's University of Wollongong (UOW) have created a number of 3D-printed custom flutes that can play microtonal tunings otherwise unachievable with standard flutes, thus opening ...

Restless Australian psych-rock crew King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard have always released music at a rapid pace -- their most recent album, Nonagon Infinity, came out back in April -- but they've just ...

Microtonal instruments are designed specifically to allow you to play intervals smaller than a semitone. On this, their ninth album, Australian psych-rockers KGLW doctored their guitars, bass and ...