Pattern by Ephraim Wegner

As first performed at EUROMicroFest 2 "Forgotten Spaces' by The Human Factory Band: Harald Kimmig, Violin / Lee Ferguson, MalletKat + Percussion / Jan F. Kurth, voice / Ephraim Wegner, electronics / Stephen Altoft, 19-div trumpet

Harald Kimmig 'Hungrig im eigenen Haus'

http://gamelan-freiburg.de
Freiburg Gamelan played at EUROMicroFest 2015.  Artistic Director, Donald Bousted took a few minutes out to interview one of the players and local Gamelan teacher, Franz Goldschmidt.

Donald Bousted Interviews Franz Goldschmidt

Microtonal JAM session to end EUROMicroFest 2017:  Directed by Jan F. Kurth with Stephen Altoft (flugel horn); Michael H. Dixon (french horn); Casey Hale (19-div electric guitar); James Batty (just intonation app); Christopher Watford (bassoon); Lee Ferguson (malletKat and percussion); Ephraim Wegner (electronics)

EUROMicroFest 2017 JAM

Samples from Stephen Altoft's CD 'The Yasser Collection'.  Buy now from Tutti; 
https://www.tutti.co.uk/cds/yasser-collection-lely-grebtschenko-trumpet-DOBOD-MPR007-R7

Yasser Collection - Sampler

This is a taster for the double CD documenting UK MicroFest 2.  For full details and to purchase go to Tutti, below.

https://www.tutti.co.uk/cds/ukm2-double-cd-documenting-uk-2-dick-visser-james-wyness-mixed-ensemble-DOBOD-004005-R5

UKM2 Taster

A sampler from the CD 'airbourne' by recorder player Andreas Böhlen available from Tutti: https://www.tutti.co.uk/cds/airborne-bousted-recorder-DOBOD-006-R6

Airbourne - Sampler

A taster for 'A Journey Among Travellers' written by Donald Bousted and recorded by Kathryn Bennetts and Peter Bowman (recorders) in 1998. “Donald Bousted’s cycle of microtonal pieces for recorders is dedicated to the proposition that this humble woodwind is destined to become, in the composer’s own words, “a major protagonist in the music of the 21st Century”. Bousted has created a series of tiny masterpieces. It would be reassuring to think that some small portion of the next millennium had been set aside for them. Wonders on so modest a scale tend to be in short supply these days.”
The Wire

A Journey Among Travellers - Sampler

Stephen Altoft's 19-div trumpet (19 nominally equal pitches to the octave)is a B flat instrument.  The 19-div pitches, combined with the transposition, can cause perceptual problems for composers.  This podcast explains how the tuning relates to 12-div tuning if it is used with other, non-transposing instruments.  Stephen also plays all the instruments in the usual playing range.

19-div Trumpet Pitches - Podcast

The UK premiere of Calvin's Flux II given by Stephen Altoft (solo trumpet) at UK MicroFest 2 (2006) at riverhomes barn, Walton on Thames.

Flux II by Jean Philippe Calvin (Stephen Altoft, trumpet)

Microtonal Projects have promoted 4 UK MicroFests and, since 2013, initiated EUROMicroFest in collaboration with unsound in Freiburg, Germany.  There have been 3 EUROMicroFests to date with a 4th planned for 2019.  For full details see our website and BLOG.

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