Harold Fortuin (born 1964 in
Mount Clemens, Michigan
Mount Clemens is a city in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 16,314 at the 2010 United States Census, 2010 census. It is the county seat, seat of government of Macomb County, Michigan, Macomb County.
History
Mount Clemens was first s ...
) is an American composer, pianist, and designer of hardware and software for electronic music.
He has written both traditional instrumental and vocal music as well as electronic and computer music, and has a number of performances and recordings to his credit. His work has often been in the realm of
microtonal music
Microtonal music or microtonality is the use in music of microtones—intervals smaller than a semitone, also called "microintervals". It may also be extended to include any music using intervals not found in the customary Western tuning of tw ...
. Aside from the standard 12-tone
equal temperament
An equal temperament is a musical temperament or tuning system, which approximates just intervals by dividing an octave (or other interval) into equal steps. This means the ratio of the frequencies of any adjacent pair of notes is the same, wh ...
, he has composed in equal temperaments of
19,
22, and
31 notes to the octave. He has also published research in the area of software and hardware design and development.
[Harold Fortuin: â]
A Modern, Compact Implementation of the Parameterized Factory Design Pattern
€ť, in Journal of Object Technology, vol. 9, no. 1, January–February 2010.
References
External links
Artist's page
1964 births
21st-century classical composers
Living people
Microtonal musicians
21st-century American composers
American male classical composers
American classical composers
21st-century American male musicians
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