2025 Xenharmonic Summer Workshop!
Place: Gesundheit Institute, Hillsboro, WV (home of our 2011, 2012 and 2019 events)
Dates: 6-20 July 2025
Lodging, Food, and Session: $2000--value exchange and financial aid can be discussed; write to summercamp@untwelve.org
Website: https://www.patchadams.org/course/xenharmonic-music-summer-camp/
We're an experienced team who have hosted 10 like events dating back to 2008, which explore a unique, non-institutional, and almost neo-anthropological approach to microtonal tuning and the harmonic imagination.
Many attendees have felt their worlds change and their networks grow.
In summer 2024 we had a mini 4-day camp that was exciting and replenishing for attendees, but since losing our 2020 event to the pandemic, we've been seeking the momentum to hold a full camp. This year, we believe we have it.
Our present course of action: find out who is coming; what projects/tech/interests they are bringing; and thus see what we've got. Expect abundant demos, coaching/project development, and sing-alongs with xenharmonic achievers.
The point is as much to see each other, revel in our shared joy in xeno-tuning, and enjoy community and the outdoors, as to get anything specific done... though fascinating projects and recordings often have a way of taking flight.
And some just keep going from there, with awesome results:
Hark Ye, Music Lovers, 2019 EP incubated at past camps:
Microtonal cover song compendium, Stephen Weigel:
Mirage for string trio by Nicholas Osborn:
Nature's First Green Is Gold, vocal round by Danny Newman-Lessler:
So here are our two requests:
1) Add the save-the-date to your calendar, to begin squaring this opportunity to your other summer commitments.
2) If you become sure this is an event that would be great for you, don't be shy to APPLY (&). Your expression of interest need not become a firm commitment until April 4, but seeing the list of likely attendees and their interests is what begins to bring this event into focus, so those who say yes earlier are influential.
Best for a year full of bright creativity, for which dark times are ultimately no match,
Bruce, Chris, Jacob, and Thomas