Now and Xen
Today: #175 in Music, Ireland on our combined chart.
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105 - Lore Amenabar
August 31, 2026 · 43 min"Welcome to Accordion August!" I mean… Today on the podcast we talk shop with Dr. Lore Amenabar Larrañaga, accordion extraordinaire! She has put out a new CD: "Ispilu: Works for Quarter-Tone Accordion" featuring some of the most stunning…
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104 - Macrochip (Elaine Walker)
August 29, 2026 · 1 hr 17 min"Welcome to Alien August!" Elaine Walker comes down from her celestial spaceship to give us the scoop on her microtonal mini-movie album, "Macrochip!" The album is constructed entirely in Bohlen-Pierce tuning and Elaine created all the…
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103 - Tachy Bunker
August 26, 2026 · 1 hr 7 min"Welcome to Alien August!" We present our conversation with certified extraterrestrial Tachy Bunker, the interdimensional shaman, conlanger, and electronic dance music producer. Tachy uses a huge variety of chromatic tunings mainly…
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102 - Owen Gardner (Horse Lords)
July 31, 2026 · 30 min"Here we are in J.I. July!" Owen Garnder, guitarist of the iconic experimental rock band Horse Lords, gives us a rundown of the band's philosophical and aesthetic visions, influences over time, and a first-person account of what playing…
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101 - Catherine Lamb
July 28, 2026 · 1 hr 23 min"Here we are in J.I. July!" We sat down for a talk with esteemed composer-performer Catherine Lamb about navigating justly tuned systems, writing in high-limit systems using low-numbered concordances, her 10 Hertz system, and individual…
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100 - Lost and Found Things
June 30, 2026 · 2 hr 34 minIn this historic 100th public episode, we celebrate and catalogue the creation of Christopher Bailey's monumental choral work "Lost and Found Things" in 17-TET. In the first conversation, Stephen Weigel, Thomas Scheurich, Jacob Barton, and…
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099 - jUNe-TWELVEing
June 29, 2026 · 53 minIn this episode we talk about UnTwelve Microtonal Recording Retreat (formerly known as "praxis sumer camp") with Jacob Barton, Vito Sicurella, and Ian Blaylock (phlub) in an initial conversation, and then with Thomas Scheurich in a…
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098 - Neptune (the band)
May 31, 2026 · 1 hr 22 min"Join us for Experi-MAY-ntal music MAY!" We interview Dan and Jason of the 32-year old instrument-building band "Neptune" (minus Mark) about their new album releasing June 5, "Play Some Music," in which they fully commit to microtonality…
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097 - Sononym (Max McCargar)
May 28, 2026 · 1 hr 15 min"Join us for Experi-MAY-ntal music MAY!" Today's episode features Max McCargar, a guitarist, performer, teacher, and polysystemic explorer. In this philosophical episode we touch on what it means to play music live with others, and upon…
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096 - XENTAR (microtonal guitar app)
April 30, 2026 · 1 hr 1 min"April WEATHER… ahem… I mean… April XEN-ther, rain and sunshine all together!" Here we have XENTAR, right after we had XENPILLED! Xentar is a free online tool where you can interact with microtonal guitar tablature, connecting a host of…
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095 - XENPILLED (Gordon Wery)
April 30, 2026 · 1 hr 31 min"April WEATHER… ahem… I mean… April XEN-ther, rain and sunshine all together!" Here we have XENPILLED, and next, XENTAR! Gordon Wery, who runs the YouTube channel "xenpilled," joins us to talk about cool microtonal scales using sharp 5ths…
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094 - LAMPLIGHT
December 29, 2025 · 1 hr 11 minJoin us for a conversation with the mad conlanger and electronic musician "Lamplight!" We create Lamplight's unique style from the ground up, joining them in the DAW, and muse about the possibilities in their composition, tuning, and…

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