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Most No Treble readers will recognize MonoNeon<\/strong> as a forward thinking bassist with a unique style that blends R&B with modern experimental music. He often plays with microtonality, meaning he uses quarter tones in addition to semi-tones that are created on fretted instruments. <\/p>\n \u201cMy fascination with microtonality is \u2018casual\u2019, similar to my fascination with Dadaism, Color Field, and other visual art stuff,\u201d he explains. \u201cI was introduce to microtonal music by David Fiuczynski, I met him during my brief stay at Berklee. Ever since then I\u2019ve been kind of a \u2018micro-dilettante\u2019 and really been trying to embrace my desire to inhabit another pitch space that is not only 12 sounds. Hopefully more people will begin playing microtonal music, not only in the avant-garde classical stuff but combining the sounds of Julian Carrillo and Albert King, Ivan Wyschnegradsky and The Bar-Kays, or Easley Blackwood and Rev. Milton Brunson\u2026 just ideas I think about.\u201d<\/p>\n MonoNeon now has a new microtonal bass that better facilitates the style. Tim Cloonan of Callowhill Guitars reached out to him and the two collaborated on the design, which also incorporates the bassist\u2019s colorful palette. It\u2019s built with a Honduran Mahogany body, an 11-piece maple\/wenge\/myrtle neck, and an Indian Rosewood fingerboard. The pickups are a pair of Nordstrand MM5\u2019s matched with an Aguilar OBP-3 preamp.<\/p>\n MonoNeon gave us a rundown of how the bass\u2019s fret system works. \u201cThe microtonal system used on the bass is 24 tone equal temperament, literally stretching the 2:1 (octave) to put 12 more notes in it. Each whole-tone within the octave is now comprised of equal 4 parts instead of 2 parts. In 24 TET the quarter-tone (50 cents) is the smallest interval, not the semitone (100 cents).\u201d<\/p>\n If you\u2019re trying to imagine what that sounds like, check out this video:\n<\/p>\n <\/p>\n \n\t\t <\/div>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n \n\t\t <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Most No Treble readers will recognize MonoNeon as a forward thinking bassist with a unique style that blends R&B with modern experimental music. He often plays with microtonality, meaning he uses quarter tones in addition\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":2051,"template":"","meta":[],"builder":[106],"class_list":["post-678","bass","type-bass","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","builder-mononeon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bassoftheweek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/bass\/678","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bassoftheweek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/bass"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bassoftheweek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/bass"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bassoftheweek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2051"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bassoftheweek.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"builder","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bassoftheweek.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fbuilder&post=678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/div>\n<\/div>\nMonoNeon\u2019s Microtonal Bass Photos:<\/h2>\n
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