Join us for an episode featuring Johnny Reinhard, legendary bassoonist and head of the American Festival of Microtonal Music. We shoot the breeze, discuss 128 tuning, and talk about microtonal performance and practice on the bassoon. Other topics include polymicrotonality, improvisation, and playing technique. His latest work in 128-note tuning, "String Theory," will be coming out soon! Music Intro: Johnny Reinhard - Odysseus 13 and last [polymicrotonal] Kite Giedraitis - I Hear Numbers [JI] John C.L. Jansen - Harmonic Fields [JI] Charles Ives - Concord Sonata, mvts. III and IV (transcendentally performed at AFMM 2016) [25-note Pythagorean] Harry Partch - In the Springtime on the South Side of the Yangzee Kyang [JI] Johnny Reinhard, Michael Hafftka, and Jeroen Thesseling - Oak (AFMM 2019) [128 tuning] Georg Friedrich Haas - For Johnny Reinhard [128 tuning] Peter Thoegersen - Summer in Helsinki [128 tuning] Anton Rovner - Dawn on the Horizon [128 tuning] Johnny Reinhard and Michael Hafftka - ON A BEVY OF STRINGS [improvisation, from IMAGINE in 128 tuning] (AFMM 2018) Outro - Johnny Reinhard: Zanzibar [polymicrotonal] Socials/Projects http://www.afmm.org/ https://johnnyreinhard.bandcamp.com/

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