Guitarist/composer Aaron Myers-Brooks (Pitt PhD Alum and Visiting Teaching Assistant Professor) specializes in microtonal music, specifically writing in a 17 equal division of the octave system that provides a fresh and striking set of intervals and colors to the listener's ears. The works on Oblique balance Myers-Brooks' sophisticated approach to pitch with an equally rigorous approach to polyrhythm, making for a unique musical system existing at the vanguard of contemporary compositional practice.
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