N.K.

Microtonal tuba player and composer Robin Hayward joins N.K. for a two-day workshop based around the recently developed Hayward Tuning Vine interface for Just Intonation.
Just Intonation is the system of microtonal tuning based on whole number frequency
relationships, and is the acoustic basis underlying such musical intervals as the perfect
fifth and major third, as well as less common microtonal intervals such as the septimal
minor seventh and neutral sixth. Through colour-coding and spatialising the harmonic
relationships, the Hayward Tuning Vine allows them to be explored intuitively, enabling
them to be seen as well as heard. It therefore makes Just Intonation more accessible to
people who might otherwise be put off by its apparently abstract and mathematical nature,
and provides an ideal introduction to the theory and practice of microtonal music.
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