Back row: Joshua Lederman, Buddy Young, Buzz Kimball, Denny Genovese, Wade Hines, Keton. Bob Nuefeld. Front: Karen Boon von Ochssee, Dawn Delo

This group fulfilled WHP's first mission: to discover the musical properties of the Natural Harmonic Series as a scale, compose and perform music based on these discoveries and to record it for posterity. Elements of this scale formed the roots of  the music of many of the worlds cultures, so the stylistic theme of the ensemble was the  musical traditions from  around the world. EME took this a step further however, by composing new music, based on an expanded version of the scale, in the spirit of unifying the roots of the various nations in a planetary cultural effort to share in the development of a Universal Music for our time and for the Future.

 EME was a pioneering effort in the cause of World Music.

See the Exotic Music Ensemble page

Ivor Darreg  was a prolific and visionary Writer, Composer, Music Theorist, Instrument Designer and Networker whose tireless efforts helped to develop the theory and practice of Microtonal Music, including Just Intonation and the Harmonic Series, in the 20th century. He was a mentor to Denny Genovese, as well as a number of others, and an early supporter of World Harmony Project.

Ivor Darreg's page

Robert Moog was a leading pioneer in Electronic Music technology. Here, he and Denny pose with Moog's solid state Theremin.

Erv Wilson was the great guru of microtonal music theory in the United States. This picture was taken at his home in Los Angeles in 2001. 

Jonathan Glasier grew up in San Diego with Harry Partch as a frequent house guest. His father, John Glasier senior, was a great cellist and violist, who could improvise in many different microtonal scale systems, and was one of Partch's most constant friends and supporters. Jonathan was a member of Partch's ensemble, and personally cared for the composer in his last years of failing health.

In addition to his life long career as a microtonal musician and instrument builder, Jonathan self published the historic magazine, Interval - a microtonal newsletter throughout the late 1970's and most of the 1980's. As a child, he developed a form of Harmonic Singing  and shared his method with Harry Partch, Jonathan Goldman and others. He is the co-proprietor with his wife Elizabeth, of the Sonic Arts Gallery in San Diego.

Joe Monzo is a composer, musician, author, computer programmer and teacher specializing in Just Intonation. His method of organizing tonal materials into multi dimensional lattice configurations provides clear pathways for tonal explorations.

The Motorola Scalatron was an early polyphonic synthesizer that was capable of being tuned in any configuration of up to 48 pitches per duple (octave). Each of the two 5 octave keyboards was programed with a specific pitch by the user. Tunings were stored in memory banks that the player could quickly switch between with radio style buttons. 

Dean Drummond was a member of the Harry Partch Ensemble, was the heir of Harry Partch's instruments, following their era with Danlee Mitchell in San Diego, and was the founder of the Partch Studies department at Montclair University in New Jersey.

Barbara Hero was a scientist, author, lecturer and music therapist who has done extensive research on the applications of the Pythagorean Lambdoma (the frequency matrix that forms the basis of Harry Partch's Tonality Diamond), in various bands of the electromagnetic spectrum. 

Robert Faulkrod was a poet and electrical engineer, who built a keyboard to play the Lambdoma scale and simultaneously project the combinational waveforms in a laser light show. When they produced a limited number of these keyboards for sale, Denny Genovese facilitated a collaboration with British programmer, Robert Walker to create a component of his MIDI program, Fractal Tune Smithy that allows musicians to play Lambdoma music with their PC computers.

Robert Walker developed the microtonal music program Fractal Tune Smithy. It has many features, useful to microtonalists, including the ability to play an ordinary 12tet synthesizer in any microtonal scale. Of special note, is the Lambdoma function, which makes it possible to play the Lambdoma on a 2 dimensional chart with a mouse, MIDI keyboard or the computer keyboard.

Dick Lord created an alternate operating system for the Ensoniq Mirage, a historic sampling synthesizer, in the 1980's. This operating system facilitated the use of microtonal scales, including Just Intonation. Linda Joy Lewis, a gourmet vegan chef and author, served as Hospitality Coordinator and has been a board member and devoted supporter of World Harmony Project from it's inception in 1992. 

Mark Rankin produced interchangeable fret board kits for guitars, and other stringed instruments for many years.

Kraig Grady plays music in Just Intonation on instruments of his own design in Los Angeles. He is closely associated with Erv Wilson. Photo taken at his studio in Los Angeles, 2001.

Warren Burt is an Australian composer, performer and author of world renown. He has been involved with Microtonal music and Just Intonation since the 1960's

John Starret is a professor of Mathematics at the University of New Mexico. He is a Microtonal composer, musician and instrument builder who has been very active in networking microtonal musicians on the web. He, with drummer, Ernie Crews played in the Neil Haverstick Microtonal Band when he lived in Denver. He is the inventor of the Starrboard, a stringed instrument that was adapted by Denny Genovese to play in the two dimensional Lambdoma Matrix scale. 

Norman Henry built a harpsichord with a special keyboard that allowed it to be played in Partch's 11 Limit Tonality diamond scale in the early 1980's. For several decades he was occupied with building an 11 limit piano with a similar matrix keyboard. It now exists.

Norman Henry's Page

Carl Lumma built this Kosmolyre during his residency at the SEJIC in the 1990's. Carl later developed many advanced microtonal concepts and served as moderator for the Microtonal Tuning List. 

He now serves as an advisor for World Harmony Project and has been helpful in calculating tunings for instruments.

Don Slepian was a pioneer of Electronic Music since the 1960's. He participated in the development of Digital Music Synthesis at Bell Telephone Laboratories in the 1970's and has been a loyal supporter of World Harmony Project since it's inception. 

While not a microtonalist per se, some of his early work with Analog synths and tape recorders is microtonal.

Michael Jewel is a Cosmic Poet from Burlington VT. He and Denny collaborated on many projects, including a weekly TV show, while they both lived in Honolulu. Don Slepian accompanied this performance with analog synthesizers, slide guitar and other instruments, using resonant filters, tape echo and other effects.