Rons Microtonal History
I have been playing guitar most of my life now, and one day I guess I decided I wanted to try a guitar with more frets. This a came about from a search for exotic scales to play and shred in my death metal and progressive metal bands. I was baffled no one could make the 12-tone guitars I wanted at the time, so I started dreaming up guitars, and simultaneously remembered microtonality and how awesome the guitars would be in extreme metal settings. I have only been building a few years, and I love to do it. I also like making scale chart books for these microtonal guitars, exploring distributionally even / Moment Of Symmetry / rank 2 Scales in equal temperaments other than the standard Diatonic scale and alterations that are adaptive to Greek Modes. It dawned on me once I saw the Scala list of scales that I needed to make them all into guitar charts, and since I have stumbled on many more scales, with the help of bad-ass theorists like Erv Wilson, Paul Erlich, Gene Ward Smith, Mike Battaglia, and Stephen james Tayler. These folks on the tuning lists and xenharmonic alliance are constantly making neat scales from regular temperaments adaptive to ethnomusical scales, to outer space scales composed of prime harmonics. So once I made a few books which mapped out these new scales, I began giving lectures at schools like University of California and Berklee College of Music, and gigging all over for anyone who wants to hear this stuff or introduce their students to this Metatonal World.
If you are interested in a
lecture or concert at your school, you can see what the IAAA has to
offer at www.IAAuralArts.org. Since we live in the internet age, I'm also available for Skype or
video lectures via the internet for your organization or school. Simply
Email Ron