New Impro Album out now, microtonal and not microtonal jazzhalo.bandcamp.com/album/echoes

Close-up of the new quarter-tone valve/slide/mechanism of the Donald Bousted Double Bell trumpet

I collaborated with Michael Clarke on two works- 'Prism' (1998) and 'Cascade'(1999)- both with live processing. . Both pieces are on my Soundcloud now: on.soundcloud.com/qYRHPBG3dFvV...

I collaborated with Michael Clarke on two works- 'Prism' (1998) and 'Cascade'(1999)- both with live processing. . Both pieces are on my Soundcloud now: soundcloud.com/stephen-c-al...

Today I had the first experimentation session on the Donald Bousted double bell quarter-tone trumpet with Maximiliano Soto Mayorga. He will be composing for it with live electronics😃

Before I embarked on the microtonal route, I played programmes of pieces for with electronics. One of my first collaborations was with a Professor from Huddersfield Uni, Michael Clarke. There were two pieces- 'Prism' and 'Cascade'. The old studio recordings now here: soundcloud.com/stephen-c-al...

Microtonal Projects has joined Bluesky, please follow here: @microtonalprojects.bsky.social

Finally able to bring the 'Donald Bousted Double Bell Quarter-tone C trumpet' home after it returned from being lacquered!

New Soundcloud page for Donald Bousted's pieces soundcloud.com/donald-boust...

the quarter-tone valve, slide and finger mechanism is now finished on the double bell 'Bousted' trumpet. It is now off to be laquered!

I bought a new mute, I wanted to buy a new instrument, but I bought a new mute (below left): a true bucket mute to replace the handmade bucket mute (using a coffee can) mute. Maybe I will still buy a new instrument, or at least try one....

Nottingham Uni's music courses under threat www.change.org/.../stop-the....

almost finished....

Thanks to Stephen Weigel for having me on his podcast! (The picture is not of one of my instruments) youtu.be/oB8Wh4hJovw?...

New link- one that works! youtu.be/wdscCt0KeCw?...

Had great week microtonal trumpet last week: recorded microtonal flugelhorn pieces by Geoff Cox and Eleri, rehearsed with Richard Whalley and Sarah Keirle Dos Santos, worked with Eddie Clijsen and improvised with Atefeh Einali (Santur). Also spent evenings with Lauren, Alistair, Scottie and Amina!

Personal website updated, having updated Microtonal Projects' last week www.stephenaltoft.com?page_id=77 Difficult to keep on top of this work.....

NEW RELEASE ON STREAMING PLATFORMS FROM TOMORROW! distrokid.com/hyperfollow/... Homenaje a Salinas
 
 1. Preludio sin compases 2. Zarabanda III. Canarios Extraños for 19-div flugelhorn available on Spotify, Apple Music etc. The sound engineer and producer was Vasiliki Kourti-Papamoustou.

The first duo Contour CD, 'Frey. Beuger' on Edition Wandelweiser Records, is now available on Bandcamp! editionwandelweiserrecords.bandcamp.com/album/frey-b...

OK, so now Gilbert got the microtonal bug! youtu.be/dzGb0aFKH_k?...

NEW RELEASE ON STREAMING PLATFORMS FROM TODAY! 'Pseudo Relations' by Isak Persson for 19-div trumpet - played by (who else) me, Stephen Altoft- is now available on Spotify, Apple Music etc. Microtonal Project’s Records are releasing a track monthly until t' summer distrokid.com/hyperfollow/...

Newest project with improvising guitarist, Gilbert Isbin. Recorded in Bruges in the Easter holiday. youtu.be/-r7A85onKcM?...

Following on from the Tokyo performances, Zafraan Ensemble will be performing movements from ‘Three Miniatures’ for solo clarinet (1984) by Donald Bousted in Berlin on 3rd July, as part of their 'Shaping Time' project at the Theater im Delphi.

Very excited to announce that on 31st May in Tokyo, three of Donald Bousted's works will be performed by members of the Phidias Trio: 'The Dream' (1992) for solo piano, 'Three Miniatures' for solo clarinet (1984) and two movements from 'Sunday Solos' (2020) for solo violin.

I was delighted during Easter last year to record the piece Daniele Bravi wrote for me and the Furano Sax Quartet. We also recorded this video demo, which is now out. youtu.be/7grGoHUFIAk?...

NEW RELEASE ON STREAMING PLATFORMS FROM TODAY! 'Dialogue' by Paul Rhys for 19-div trumpet and computer- and Multitrack recordings is now available on Spotify, Apple Music etc.

Back in Freiburg after Hyperchromatic Festival at Goldsmiths Uni London, recording impro in Bruges with Gilbert Isbin and Easter Weekend in Brussels and Leuven. Now it's time to put the trumpet back together, clean and do office work before school resumes next week.

I am looking forward to playing and presenting at the Hyperchromatic Festival, Goldsmiths Uni in London on 14th/15th April and to my debut with Lore Amenabar Larranaga!! Programme now available and updated on Microtonal Projects' website Live Streaming via the Goldsmiths University YouTube Channel

Microtonal Project’s Records are releasing a track monthly until the summer on all major streaming platforms. Lud’s Church by Richard Whalley for 19-div trumpet and Multitrack recordings is now available on Spotify, Apple Music etc. It was produced by Donald Bousted and Vasiliki Kourti-Papamoustou.

New album out with Gilbert Isbin- my impro, his impro and his electronic soundscapes. New material alongside some of YouTube release- numbered differently jazzhalo.bandcamp.com/album/rencou...

Hyperchromatic Festival, London, 14th/ 15th April Looking forward to playing pieces by Whalley, Rhys, M.S.Krüger, Morsink, Cox, Soto Mayorga, Gusmano. www.eventbrite.com/e/hyperchrom...

last Rencounter on Youtube, more to be released later on the Bandcamp album youtu.be/Gb-azx3TX0s?...

It is with great pleasure, that I am able to announce the release of ‘Floating on my Cloud’! a posthumous collection of Donald Bousted's non-microtonal music, and includes a ukulele piece, both written and played by him, as the title track. donaldbousted.com/floating-on-...

Slowly getting closer to release of Donald's new album.....plus possibility of a concert featuring his works- in Japan....

Why do you play contemporary music Steve? Well, it is because I get to work with living composers and play a part in the birth of a new work- like yesterday working with @sotomayorga.bsky.social or last week working with my music school impro group with Sophie Youyung Lee on her work.

No. 10 of 12 of the Rencounters with Gilbert Isbin. After that all the tracks (more than 12) will be released on Bandcamp. youtu.be/DsjvplGzp4A?...

Had a great time working with Sophie Youjung Lee this weekend with my young impro group at Musikschule Waldkirch. Lots of good observations and fun tine experimenting with sound objects. This is part of the Ad Libitum project (Netzwerk Neue Musik).

Concert: Waldkirch Music School, Sunday in Memoriam Gisela Sick. After 38-div experimenting , now working on Frescobaldi (on D trumpet not Cornetto) and Bartok on Flugelhorn (not cello). The Frescobaldi is with regular duo partner, Karin Fleck (accordion), and Bartok with cellist, Antoine Billet.

Had a great week last week, working on Alistair Zaldua's piece with him (38-divisions of the octave!) at the SWR Experimental Studio- parallel to my teaching schedule. Before this project I hadn't worked there since 2007 I believe....

Here's a home studio recording of a 19-div trumpet piece written for me last year by Coreen Morsink. We met through her microtonal email chats with Don Bousted and discovered shared Northern England and Canadian friends. on.soundcloud.com/BiJeqGyYdRpS...

This latest track with Gilbert Isbin has so many different references and takes me back to how I improvised before I got deep into the microtonal tuning of 19-divisions of the octave. youtu.be/AC2PI9oledQ?...

It is getting to that time of night where I should either be creative or go to bed....

Every five years I write myself a piece, and even less often I make a piece for others. My Windspell Solo piece series now includes variants for accordion, Ukulele, vibraphone and now for Harp (for Eleri ). youtu.be/HLmhT1A79v8

Greetings from another world! youtu.be/3P8Ow2JiU1w?...