Joe Monzo
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Joe Monzo (born January 5, 1962) is an American microtonal composer and tuning-theorist who has authored books and multiple webpages on music theory. He specializes in applying tuning-theory and computing to microtonal musical composition, and tutors people in computing and music composition.
Monzo was born and rasied in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, graduated from Ocean City High School (class of 1979), attended Manhattan School of Music in New York, lived in Philadelphia again during the 1990s, and since 2000 has been living in San Diego, California.
From the mid-1980s to early 1990s Monzo was a keyboard player for several bands in South Jersey and Philadelphia: Meanstreak, (most notably) the Midnight Riders, Viper, Tsunami, and finally One Night Affair.
Monzo wrote the book JustMusic: A New Harmony in the mid-1990s, and the book-length webpage A Century of New Music in Vienna in the early 2000s, reflecting his deep admiration for, and research into, the lives and work of composers Gustav Mahler and Arnold Schoenberg. In 2002 he became co-founder of Tonalsoft software company, initially for the purpose of developing Tonescape software (which he conceived in 1984). Monzo is also the author of the massive online Tonalsoft Encyclopedia of Microtonal Music Theory.
Monzo most often goes by the nickname "monz".
[edit] External links
- Tonalsoft homepage
- Tonalsoft Encyclopedia of Microtonal Music Theory
- A Century of New Music in Vienna
- Sonic Arts, San Diego
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