Main Page

XenBase (the Manifesto)

Welcome to XenBase, a place for documentation and sharing of xenharmonic music, dedicated to practical xenharmony. As a result of being more focused on compositional theory, it also aims to be more beginner-friendly.

Xenharmony is the practice of tuning intervals significantly different from 12-tone equal temperament to create unusual sounds; not just out-of-tune, but arranged with care for various purposes. This could be to create new chords and melodies, have intervals with unique functions, improve existing approximations of frequency ratios, or approximate new ones.

This wiki views tuning as a means to an end. Xenharmonic theory should be just as much about finding the perfect set of notes as it is about how to easily use those notes in an interesting way. In tuning systems with a sufficiently large number of notes, the most important distinction between them is how their strengths and underlying structures guide composition, not minor sonic differences that tend to get lost in a composition.

This wiki is mostly empty at the moment. We're working on it. (Source: Special:AllPages and Special:Categories)

For those starting with xenharmony: Category:Core knowledge

For those starting with editing: XenBase:Guidelines