Microtonal Village, Hosted by Agustín Castilla-Ávila

The microtonal Village

–John Schneider and Eleni Ralli (Greece) discuss Harry Partch
–Leonid Galaganov will discuss the work of the intrepid Christopher Trapani, a New York composer to be reckoned with…
–Lecture/performances by Giacomo Fiore (California) and Matthew Sallis (Great Britain), Mario Garcia Hurtado (Mexico)

…Performers, Lecturers, Presenters from Spain, Canada, Chile, Greece, Germany, Poland, Mexico, USA, China, Great Britain, Lithuania, Austria, Iran, including….

…Giacomo Fiore, Iván Hernández, Mario García Hurtado, Matthew Sallis, Georg Vogel, Bill Alves, Jim Dalton, Joseph Klein, Elliot Figg and John Schneider among many others.

Sept 20 and 22 at Greenwich House Music School.
Sept 19 & 21, location, tba

A series of Papers, Workshops and Concerts focusing on Greenwich Village, experiments there, and its role in American Primitive.

Concept & Direction: Agustín Castilla-Ávila

Agustin Castilla-Ávila is a tireless advocate for composers around the world who are exploring new and old tuning systems. “Microtonal Village” brings composers from 15 countries to Greenwich Village to present their music and thought, with attention to developments in Greenwich Village through visionaries like Cage, Harrison and Partch.

Provisional Program (subject to change)

DAY I

Thursday September 19, 2024

8:45 a.m. – 8:00 p. m.

Venue TBA, some lectures to be held online

08:45 a.m. - Welcoming speech: Agustín Castilla-Ávila

Presentations I
Chair: Agustín Castilla-Ávila

9:00 a.m.
Amir Abbas Ahmadi (Iran) and Sarvin Hazin (Iran)

“Exploring Tuning Systems in Iranian Dastgah and Maqam Music: A Theoretical and Artistic Presentation” ONLINE VIA ZOOM

9:45 a.m.

Ulf-Diether Soyka (Austria)

“Microtonal Modulations” ONLINE VIA ZOOM

10:30 a.m.

Georg Vogel (Austria)

“Composition and Improvisation in Extended 31-tone Meantone Tuning - Exemplified on the 31-tone Claviton” ONLINE VIA ZOOM

11:15 a.m.
Break

Presentations II
Chair: William Anderson

12:30 p.m.
Vytautas Germanavičius (Lithuania)

“Adapting unequal tuning systems to new technological environments and applying them to compositional and performance practices”

1:15 p.m.
Matthew Sallis (Great Britain)

“Just (Intonation) Stop Equal Temperament Tuning”

2:00 p.m.
Smee Wang (China)

“Exploring Microtonal Soundscapes in Mosaic Miniature”

2:45 p.m.
Break

Presentations III
Chair: Jonathan Dawe

3:15 p.m.
Can Bilir (Turkey)

“Gravitation of Relative Pitch and Tonal Axes”

4:00 p.m.
Faustina Dedūraitė (Lithuania)

“Chess Tournament between Strictness and Freedom: Microdimensional Strategies in the Music of Rytis Mažulis”

4:45 p.m.
Mario García Hurtado (Mexico)

Lecture-Recital “The Guitar in Sonido 13 and its Microtonal Evolution”

5:30 p.m.

Break

7:00 p.m.
Iván Hernández (Mexico)

Lecture-Recital: Expansion of the microtonal Marimba ONLINE VIA ZOOM

Day II

Friday September 20, 2024

10:00am – 6:45pm
Greenwich House, 122 West 27th St. New York, N.Y. 10014

Presentations IV
Chair: Agustín Castilla-Ávila

9:00 a.m.
Ralph Lewis (USA)

“Johnny Reinhard: A Multi-Faceted Microtonal Maven”

9:45 a.m.
Leonid Galaganov (USA)

“Expressive Affordances of 24-EDO in Christopher Trapani’s End Words”

10:30 a.m.

Luke Villavicencio (USA)

“Pitch in High-Definition”

11:15 a.m.
Break

Presentations V
Chair: William Anderson

12:30 p.m.
Katarzyna Daszkiewicz (Poland)

“I wrap difficult topics with musical tulle – Microtonality in Agata Zemla’s reportage music”

1:15 p.m.
Agata Dereń (Poland)

“Lethargy”

2:00 p.m.
Rafał Barcella (Poland)

“Notation, sound and rhythm askew: microtonality in Passacaglia for strings by Rafał Barcella”

2:45 p.m.
Break

Presentations VI
Chair: Jonathan Dawe (USA)

3:15 p.m.
Orlando Zavala (Mexico)

“Pythagorean Xilophone”

4:00 p.m.
Jorge Echevarría Chávez (Mexico)

“ITZA KAYUM: Beethoven and Carrillo”

4:45 p.m.
Giacomo Fiore (USA)

Concert: A Just Intonation Resophonic Guitar Retrospective

Day III

Saturday September 21, 2024

9:45 a.m. – 9:00 p. m.
Venue TBA

Presentations VII
Chair: Agustín Castilla-Ávila

9:00 a.m.
Giacomo Fiore (USA)

“Fluid and Adaptive Tunings in the Music of Larry Polansky”

9:45 a.m.
Navid Bargrizan (USA)

“Nonexistent Fundamentals and Distant Partials as the Source of Tuning and Pitch Inception”

10:30 a.m.
Daniel Corral (USA)

Lecture-Recital “2 of Pentacles”

11:15 a.m.
Break

Presentations VIII
Chair: William Anderson

12:30 p.m.
Afamia Al-Dayaa (Germany)

“Lou Harrison’s Piano Concerto”

1:15 p.m.
Zoran Šćekić (Croatia)

“The Art of Spectral Groups”

2:00 p.m.
Jacob Elkin (USA)

Lecture-Recital “Lou Harrison’s At the Tomb of Charles Ives for Small Orchestra”

2:45 p.m.
Break

Presentations IX
Chair: Jonathan Dawe

3:15 p.m.
Bill Alves (USA)

“Lou Harrison’s Free Style Intonation”

4:00 p.m.
Jim Dalton (USA)

“Appraisal of Harrison’s Leap”

4:45 p.m.
Joseph Klein (USA) and Elliot Figg (USA)

“The Microtonal Harpsichord: Two recent works exploring Just Tuning Systems”

5:45 p.m.
Break

8:00 p.m.
John Schneider (USA)

Concert

Greenwich House, 122 West 27th St. New York, N.Y. 10014

Day IV

Sunday September 22, 2024
10:00am – 6:45pm

Greenwich House, 122 West 27th St. New York, N.Y. 10014

Presentations X
Chair: Agustín Castilla-Ávila

9:00 a.m.
Eleni Ralli (Greece)

“The transcription process: parameters to consider, challenges, and proposed solutions in Harry Partch’s work”

9:45 a.m.
John Schneider (USA)

“Harry Partch: Radical Innovator”

10:30 a.m.
Omar Medina (Mexico)

“Pre-Hispanic Microtonal Aerophones and their psychoacoustic effect”

11:15 a.m.
Break

Presentations XI
Chair: William Anderson

12:30 p.m.
Agustín Castilla-Ávila (Austria)

“36-EDO microtonal Scordatura for Guitar”

1:15 p.m.
Jonathan Dawe (USA)

“Amor nello Specchio: a microtonal Opera”

2:00 p.m.
Fernando Pérez (Spain)

Lecture Recital: “Guitar & Microtonal Music Traditions”

2:45 p.m.
Break

Presentations XII
Chair: Jonathan Dawe

3:15 p.m.
Robert Hasegawa (Canada)

“Compositional resources of a hybrid seven-note microtonal scale”

4:00 p.m.
Felipe Pinto d’Aguiar (Chile)

“Two Strategies for Utilizing Microtones in Orchestral Settings”

4:45 p.m.
Ángel Blanco (Mexico/Canada)

Lecture Recital: “World and US Premieres - Novaro, Carrillo, Hába”