Honouring the one-year anniversary of Chicago-based microtonal composer Easley Blackwood, Jr.’s death, Cedille Records releases Acoustic Microtonal, a new and unconventional acoustic presentation of Blackwood’s Twelve Microtonal Etudes for Electronic Music Media, Op 28, arranged by GRAMMY-nominated composer and orchestrator Matthew Sheeran. This monumental work marked the culmination of Blackwood’s research into the techniques of dividing the octave into more than 12 equal parts. Blackwood wrote each of his 12 Etudes using tunings of 13 to 24 notes per octave, with each tuning resulting in its own musical form and style.