Name: Book Launch: Microtonal Music: Social, Cultural, Political, and Personal Perspectives
Start: 2026-05-29T17:00:00+03:00
Location: Uudenmaankatu 23 F 1, 00120

Book Launch: Microtonal Music: Social, Cultural, Political, and Personal Perspectives

Microtonal Music Studios and Myymälä2 are extremely pleased to invite everyone to the launch of the first eBook from the Microtonal Music Studios project on the 29th of May at Myymälä2 gallery, Helsinki.
Edited by Timo Tuhkanen and titled “Microtonal Music Studios Reader I, Music Outside Keys and Cultures: Social, Cultural, Political, and Personal Perspectives" the book contains 14 chapters from the authors:
Colleen Gallagher
Haiyun Yu
Thokozani Mhlambi
Tomás Cabado
Sami Abu Shumays
Demian Claudio Araya Lobos
Orlando Zavala Galindo,
Dylan Rodgers
Robert Prokopowicz
Amalia Deorsola
Idin Samimi Mofakham
Angus Barnacle
Casey Hale
Moe Louanjli
The layout and cover has been designed by Timo Tuhkanen using by Henry Birdsey’s two graphic music scores Two Harmonicas in a Jeweller’s Court and Levitation Marks.
The eBook will be made available during the launch and is free and a physical book, printed in black and white, will be available from the print on demand service lulu.com (link will be updated) and a small limited edition book, printed in colour, will be available at a later date.
I would like to thank everyone who has been involved in the making of the Microtonal Music Studios project and this book a reality: Myymälä2 gallery, Kone Foundation, Saastamoinen Foundation, Madetoja Foundation, MINU Festival for Expanded Music and Mikkel Schou and Dylan Richards, The Atlas: Of Creative Mechanisms (Curating-Conducting) project at Angewandte University of Arts, Vienna and Basak Senova and David Chisholm, Kunsthalle Exnergasse WUK. Kohta Kunsthalle and Anders Kruger, The City of Helsinki Youth Division and I Wayan Janick Sutisnan, Indonesian Embassy in Finland and her Excellency Ambassador Ratu Silvy Gayatri, Gamelan Salukat and Aya Sakuma, John Chantler sixth-edition festival, Borealis Festival for Experimentell Musik, Bergen, Levande Musik and FOLK in Göteborg, Gerleborgskolan, Gerleborg. And of course Dima Bondeyov for your invaluable work helping me edit the texts, and finally the authors themselves, none of this would a reality without your incredible work!