Microtonal Music Explorer

Wilsonic

I’m Marcus Hobbs, and I built Wilsonic so you can touch, hear, and feel the scale designs Ervin Wilson spent 65 years discovering. When I first heard one of his scales in 1995 it changed how I thought about music, and I have spent the years since making free instruments so that a palette of pitches can be a fundamental artistic choice for anyone who wants one.

You do not need any music theory to start, because these tonal worlds grow from a mode of thought that has little to do with historical musical thinking. Play them by ear and see where they take you.

I share desktop and iOS software, investigate tuning relationships in browser research playgrounds, and write about what I learn in the research notes. You can contact me about the work.