Dec 29, 2025
Join us for a conversation with the mad conlanger and electronic musician “Lamplight!” We create Lamplight’s unique style from the ground up, joining them in the DAW, and muse about the possibilities in their composition, tuning, and music. Lamplight’s conlang and microtonal thoughts are highly connected to...
Oct 27, 2025
Peter Jung demonstrates his microtonal software for us - it has a lattice interface that allows one to visualize regularly constructed scales, perform operations related to them that are intuitive, and connect that to synthesizers. The working title is “PitchGrid” - but if others have suggestions feel free to...
Oct 12, 2025
Join us for a chat with Stephen Altoft about all things microtonal trumpet, going over mechanics, tuning, and the composition scene. Stephen shows off several trumpets and flugelhorns and their valve systems. Other topics include affordable instruments, conferences, venues, composers, extended techniques, and improvised...
Sep 30, 2025
Big thanks to Genoël for joining us on the Now and Xen podcast. This episode is a bit unconventional, as Genoël, in large part, is interviewing me for issue 144 of the “Positionen magazine” which was released in August. Go check it out online, as well as Genoël’s compositions! A lot of our discussion revolves...
Jul 31, 2025
Cellist, guitarist, vocalist, and compositional viral
icon Maddie Ashman joins us on the Now and Xen podcast to discuss
her work. Topics of choice include musical influences, feeling
microtonal colors, hurdles when playing such music, and how to find
your way.
Instagram clip of “dark” (Maddie Ashman) from...