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Episode Description
About This Page By Lesley Mahoney July 8, 2013
Guitar professor David Fiuczynski directs Berklee’s Planet MicroJam Institute, which engages in the study of microtonal harmonies that go beyond the 12-tone Western chromatic scale and uses these to create a new musical language. The idea, Fiuczynski says, is to create music that “sounds like a Gauguin painting—a raw, powerful, and extremely colorful mix of Eastern and Western elements.
With Berklee’s robust international student population, a large proportion of which brings a non-Western music background, the college is fertile ground for exploring and experimenting with microtonal harmonies and mixing them with other sounds.
In this episode of Inside Berklee, Fiuczynski talks about this musical system that captures notes that don’t fall within the 12-tone scale and how Berklee is poised to shape a new frontier.
Produced by Lesley Mahoney
Engineered and edited by Berklee student Ryan Walsh
Producers
Lesley Mahoney
Engineers
Ryan Walsh
Document Type
Podcast
Duration
18:44
Publication Date
12-4-2014
Recommended Citation
Fiuczynski, David, "Inside Berklee: David Fiuczynski" (2014). Sounds of Berklee. 195.
https://remix.berklee.edu/sounds-of-berklee/195