Lumatone Artist Series

Mike makes full use of 31-EDO (each octave is divided into 31 notes) as well as Lumatone's unique continuous controller feature.

In this sprawling and beautiful live microtonal improvisation, Amelia Huff (@ZheannaErose) demonstrates just how powerful Lumatone's layouts can be in provoking creativity and xenharmonic exploration.

Watch @MikeBattagliaMusic's absolutely mind-blowing take on the blues, using a brilliant approach to variable microtonality on Lumatone. Starting with a 24-EDO mapping, Mike programmed his Lumatone's mod wheel to allow him to adjust the quarter-tone intervals in real time. With the mod wheel at the top, it's 24-edo. As the mod wheel is lowered, all of the half-sharp/half-flat notes move together in unison lower. The result is an instrument that gives Mike the ultimate flexibility to subtly play the blues just like a guitarist would, completely from his gut, without the often artificial sound and hand-distracting need for a pitch wheel.

Amelia Huff (@ZheannaErose) is back with another brain tingling improvisation on Lumatone, this time in a remarkable 12-NEJI tuning. Of the tuning, Amelia says "I keep coming back to this scale because it's so simple, elegant, easy to play, and has so much potential for emergent sonic phenomenon. The gestalt of this system creates strange resonances, ghost tones, buzzing, pulsing, and seems to alter the timbre of piano into a chime-like metallophone. The 11:15 has kept its place as my favorite interval for a few months now. It's so unlike anything I had heard prior to finding it. It's amazing how it's only 14 cents away from the 8:11 yet sounds absolutely nothing like it."

Mike Battaglia returns with another remarkable full performance in the 31-EDO tuning on Lumatone, this time it's a microtonal rendition of "House of the Rising Sun." Filmed live at South Street Sounds in Philadelphia, PA.

Amelia Huff (@ZheannaErose) is back for the Lumatone Artist Series with another microtonal improvisation, this one being in 31-EDO. Filmed live in Indiana. In this piece, Amelia pays homage to a previous piece of work called "Arrival."