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Mozarteum University Salzburg, Mirabellplatz 1, 5020 Salzburg, Austria
International Symposium
MIKROTÖNE ~ MICROTONES
SMALL IS BEAUTIFUL
Paper Presentations and Concerts focusing on Microtonal Music

- An event of the International Ekmelic Music Society
- in co-operation with the Mozarteum University Salzburg:
- Institut für Neue Musik
- Department Gesang
- Department Komposition und Musiktheorie
- and ConTempOhr.
Concept and overall charge: Gertraud Steinkogler-Wurzinger and Agustín Castilla-Ávila
The this year's international symposium “Mikrotöne: Small is beautiful” with microtonal specialists from 16 countries is dedicated to Franz Richter Herf (1920-1989) and his wife Maria Richter-Taborsky (1928-2018). Both were teachers at the Mozarteum University Salzburg.
Book
Mikrotöne: Small is beautiful 3
Report with lectures of the symposium 2019,
edited by Agustín Castilla-Ávila,
published by Mackingerverlag, Salzburg.
Daily, – , in the Lobby
Exhibition
In memoriam Franz Richter Herf ( – )
From 1979 thru 1983, Franz Richter Herf was principal of the Mozarteum University Salzburg,
and in 1981, founder of the International Ekmelic Music Society.
As from 1970, he and Rolf Maedel devoted themselves to research and
systematization of microtones. This finally led to the development of
the Ekmelic Music.
Lobby, Raum 2018, and Kleines Studio
Lobby
Arrival – Registration
Opening – Welcoming speech
Prof. Elisabeth Gutjahr
Chancellor of the University of Music, Performing and Visual Arts Mozarteum Salzburg
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Raum 2018
Presentations I
Chair: Agustín Castilla-Ávila
Rūta Stanevičiūtė (LTU)
Rediscovering the Lithuanian Microtonal Music: Jeronimas Kačinskas and the Hába School
Hans-Gunter Lock (EST)
Organizing Microtonal Pitches. Tables of Pitch-Class Sets for 13 to 24 Equal Division of the Octave as a Tool for Composers
Manuel Dominguez Salas (MEX)
Freedom and movement of microtones in ishini’ioni string quartet
Lunch Break
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Raum 2018
Presentations II
Chair: Siegfried Steinkogler
Gunda Dietzel (DEU)
in conversation with Gertraud Steinkogler-Wurzinger (AUT)Use and effect of Shrutis and Gamakas in the “Nada-Brahma System” of Dr Vemu Mukunda
Georg Hajdu (DEU)
Syntactic Considerations in the Modulation between Microtonal Scales
Jacob Elkin (USA)
Just intonation quarter-tone practice for trombone
Coffee Break
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Raum 2018
Presentations III
Chair: Johannes Kotschy
Tolgahan Çoğulu (TUR)
The Application of Al-Kindi’s Oud Fret Values to the Guitar and Analysis of Enis Gümüş’s piece “El-Kindî”
Kleines Studio
Concert I
Iván Cipactli Hernández Espinosa (MEX) – Quarter-Tone Marimba
Iván Hernández
Improvisation #1
- quarter-tone marimba, vibraphone
Improvisatión #4
- quarter-tone marimba
Amaneceres
- quarter-tone marimba
Nicola Visalli
Qidra
- quarter-tone marimba
Niquitoa
- quarter-tone marimba, vibraphone, singing voice
Agustín Castilla-Ávila
Canto de la Huida
- quarter-tone marimba
Canto a Nezahualcoyotl
- quarter-tone guitar, quarter-tone marimba
Kleines Studio
Concert II
“Vom Leben das Beste” – Hommage to Franz Richter Herf
Franz Richter Herf
Vom Leben das Beste, op. 24 (1986)
- voice, guitar
Richard Cameron-Wolfe
Kyrie (Mantra)
- flute trio
Gertraud Steinkogler-Wurzinger
Vocalise mystique
- voice, harp
Agustín Castilla-Ávila
Dos Sonetos
- voice, guitar
Zoran Šćekić
Hybrid States
- harp
Amr Okba
Vom Leben das Beste
- voice, harp, guitar
Siegfried Steinkogler
Das Beste vom Leben
- voice, guitar
Franz Richter Herf
Vom Leben das Beste
- voice, harp
- Lyriel Benameur – voice
- Olga Levtscheva – voice
- Vera Klug – flute
- Irmgard Messin – flute
- Gundl Aggermann – flute
- Katharina Teufel-Lieli – harp
- Leonor Maia – harp
- Yvonne Zehner – guitar
- Siegfried Steinkogler – guitar
Shakespeare Kunst & Kulinarisches, Hubert-Sattler-Gasse 3, 5020 Salzburg
Concert III
“MAR” – Performance
TRAK Dance Ensemble
Irina Repey – live Video Painting
Agustín Castilla-Ávila – microtonal guitars
Shakespeare Kunst & Kulinarisches, Hubert-Sattler-Gasse 3, 5020 Salzburg
Concert IV
Microtonal Jam Session
Bösendorfersaal
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Presentations IV
Chair: Agustín Castilla-Ávila
William Anderson (USA)
Eugene Lee’s work in 18-tone combinatoriality
Jens Rossel (DNK)
Gunnar Berg – Denmark’s microtonal Pioneer
Johnny Reinhard (USA)
128 Tuning – or 8th Octave of the Overtone Series (Harmonic Tuning)
Johannes Kotschy (AUT)
Microtonal Music – Just Imagination?
Lunch Break
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Presentations V
Chair: Johannes Kotschy
Siegfried Steinkogler (AUT)
Teaching Microtonality
Navid Bargrizan (USA)
Microtonal Pentatonic Scales as the Source for “Pictures at the Micro-Exhibition”
Concert V
Laurent Estoppey (CHE) – Microtonal Saxophone
- Laurent Estoppey – alto saxophone
William Anderson
J’entends le moulin (2019) *
- William Anderson – guitar
Donald Bousted
Four comedic studies (2001)
Maurizio Guerandi
My Love is a Journey without End (2019) *
Aaron Bachelder
Four miniatures (2019) *
Agustín Castilla-Ávila
Day out of Time (2019) *
- Yvonne Zehner – electric guitar
Navid Bargrizan
Pictures at the Micro-exhibition (2018)
William Anderson
Ziguezon (2019) *
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Presentations VI
Chair: Siegfried Steinkogler
Stefan Gerritsen (NLD)
31-tone guitar
Ben Lunn (GBR)
The imaginary 128 stringed viol: an investigation of Horațiu Rădulescu’s String Quartet No. 4
Concert VI
Johnny Reinhard – “The microtonal Bassoon”
Johnny Reinhard
Dune (1990)
- bassoon
Kindergarden Blues (2018)
- singing voice, soprano recorder
Аnton Rovner
Ballad (2016)
in 128 tuning
- bassoon
Johnny Reinhard
Zanzibar (1993)
- bassoon and morphings
Eye of Newt (1993)
- alto recorder
Georg Friedrich Haas
For Johnny Reinhard (2014)
- bassoon
Juhani Nuorvala
Toivo 128 (2017)
- bassoon and pre-recorded material
Bösendorfersaal and Solitär
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Presentations VII
Chair: Johannes Kotschy
Iván Cipactli Hernández Espinosa (MEX)
Expansion of the microtonal marimba
Elisa Järvi (FIN)
Performing on the Quarter-Tone Piano, Re-Discovering Repertoire
Felipe Pinto-d’Aguiar (CHL)
“A Horcajadas en la Luz” - Harmonic and Textural Techniques
Christian Klinkenberg (BEL)
“The Glacier”, a microtonal opera
Lunch Break
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Presentations VIII
Chair: Agustín Castilla-Ávila
Richard Cameron-Wolfe (USA)
Microtones and the Human Psyche: the Legacy of Composer John Eaton
Eleni Ralli (GRC)
Harry Partch’s “The Letter”, a Comparison of the three existing versions (1943,1955,1972)
Charles Corey (USA)
The Adapted Guitar Music of Harry Partch: A Microcosm of the Composer’s Style and Ingenuity
Coffee Break
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Presentations IX
Chair: Siegfried Steinkogler
Georg Vogel, David Dornig, Valentin Duit (AUT)
Presenting the instruments of the ensemble Dsilton, the 31-tone keyboard M-Claviton & an 8-string 31-tone guitar, the repertoire & techniques of improvisation in 31-EDO
Katarzyna Bartos (POL)
Hidden mathematical processes? “Stimmung” by Karlheinz Stockhausen
Solitär
Concert VII
Karlheinz Stockhausen – “Stimmung”
“Stimmung” is a piece for six vocalists and six microphones, written in 1968 and commissioned by the City of Cologne for the Collegium Vocale Köln. Its average length is seventy minutes.
The composition is based entirely on the production of vocal harmonics over a B Major Seven Nine Chord and uses overtones as a primary element. By gradual transformation / assimilation of 51 rhythmic models the singers weave a rhythmic polyphonic sound texture.
- Lucia Hausladen – soprano 1
- Lisa Fornhammar – soprano 2
- Gertraud Steinkogler-Wurzinger – alto
- Roman Stalla – tenor 1
- Konstantin Riedl – tenor 2
- Jeffrey Herminghaus – bass
Performers: Students, alumni and teachers of the Mozarteum University Salzburg.
- Performance and overtone coaching: Angelika Luz, Natascha Nikeprlevic, Anna Maria Hefele
- Sound director: Ruben Hawer
- Stagecraft and Sound: Jan Fredrich, Andi Greiml, Mathias Maedl
- Institut für Neue Musik: Achim Bornhöft, Alexander Bauer