Check out this conversation with Aaron Myers-Brooks, Pittsburgh prog guitarist/composer extraordinaire. His latest album, "Oblique," is a microtonal odyssey exploring various quirky polyrhythms, applications of 17-tone equal temperament, electronic sounds, and distortion flavors. We get an inside exclusive look at the scores to "Energy Shapes", figure out why one might use up and down arrows instead of Gould accidentals, and talk about "drawing" microtones in the highC program. Music [Intro] Aaron Myers-Brooks - Energy Shapes (V - Emerge) Aaron Myers-Brooks - Eight HighC Miniatures (VII - Chitter) Aaron Myers-Brooks - Sonata for 17-tone Guitar (I - Wistful and Halting) Aaron Myers-Brooks - Prelude and Entity Aaron Myers-Brooks - The 11th and 6th Caves Aaron Myers-Brooks - Energy Shapes (II - Oblique) Aaron Myers-Brooks - Sonata for 17-tone Guitar (I - Wistful and Halting) Aaron Myers-Brooks - Sonata for 17-tone Guitar (II - Angular and Aggressive) Aaron Myers-Brooks - Chasm [from album "Energetic Bursts"] Aaron Myers-Brooks - Energy Shapes (I - Wisp) Aaron Myers-Brooks - Energy Shapes (II - Oblique) Aaron Myers-Brooks - Energy Shapes (III - Chop) Aaron Myers-Brooks - Triads and Arpeggios Aaron Myers-Brooks - Energy Shapes (IV - De-Sync) Aaron Myers-Brooks - Energy Shapes (V - Emerge) [Outro] Aaron Myers-Brooks - Sonata for 17-tone Guitar (III - Somber and Deliberate) Aaron Myers-Brooks' music (on all streaming sites): https://aaronmyersbrooks.bandcamp.com/album/oblique https://www.youtube.com/@aaronmeterchanges Support us on Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/nowandxen Follow http://nowandxen.libsyn.com https://twitter.com/now_xen https://www.facebook.com/nowxen/ Subscribe RSS: http://nowandxen.libsyn.com/rss iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/n… Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/1mhnGsH… Stitcher: https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/nowxen Twitter: https://twitter.com/now_xen Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/nowxen/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCnmYNMpemAIq8DnK5HJ9gsA