Johnny Reinhard’s American Festival of Microtonal Music (AFMM) presents three extensive concerts: April 29, May 2 and May 8.  All start at 10pm at the Bowery Poetry Club, New York: 308 Bowery (at Bleecker, just across the street from CBGB’s-not).
For full details of all three concerts, visit
http://www.afmm.org

Composing Polymicrotonally
The subject of this essay -- polymicrotonality -- never shows up in a dictionary, although it has real meaning for my music compositions.  When performing extemporaneously as a bassoonist, I couldn't imagine improvising sans microtones.  The complex world in which we live requires a new music that reflects what is special in this millennial era and, paradoxically, need not be overtly complex in its delivery.  The insistence of a single tuning simply does not attract my aesthetic compass.  Most significantly......


Electric bassoon at the Nice Discotheque

Johnny Reinhard: composer/performer
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American Festival Of
Microtonal Music
Under the direction of Johnny Reinhard
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Sketch for studio realization of Circle
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Graphic score of Raven
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Interview 1998 (Raven CD sleeve note)
I first focused on microtonality as a player.  I wanted to develop the bassoon compositionally by encouraging composers to write for me; I just wasn't satisfied with the available repertoire.  I didn't care much for the published works of the bassoon.  There's a certain standoffishness that institutions have towards the instrument compared with instruments like violin and piano, let alone flute.....

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