Denny Genovese has been involved with the development of New Music and new musical instruments since 1965. Founder of World Harmony Project and the Southeast Just Intonation Center, he composed much of the music played by the Exotic Music Ensemble, and was its musical director. Like his inspiration, Harry Partch, he also built and modified most of the instruments used by the ensemble.

Denny’s articles on just intonation and instrument design have appeared in several national publications, including Interval, Polyphony, Aftertouch, Xenharmonic Bulletin, Xenharmonikon, Experimental Musical Instruments and Electronotes.

His musical recordings and videos are available on the website: www.worldharmonyproject.com

He is the author of MICROTONAL MIDI TERMINAL, which was the first real-time micro computer program for performing electronic music in just intonation. He also collaborated with Barbara Hero and Robert Walker to Develop the Lambdoma features of Robert’s program, FRACTAL TUNE SMITHY.

His inventions include the Fipple pipe (a wind instrument that plays in the natural Harmonic Series) and a number of Analog electronic music devices, including the Binary Flute, the Control Voltage Processor, and the Rippleless Envelope Follower.

His biographies appear in MARQUIS WHO’S WHO IN ENTERTAINMENT and in PITCH magazine’s WHO’S WHO IN MICROTONALITY.

The Theremin-controlled Analog Synthesizer is Denny’s favorite instrument for melody, while he holds the Cosmolyre, developed by Ivor Darreg, in highest regard for harmony.

Denny graduated from New College in Sarasota, Florida with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Musical Composition and Musicology in 1991. He also studied Liberal Arts and Computer Science at the University of Hawaii from 1971 to 1976, at which time he developed a music composition and notation program for the IBM-370 mainframe computer.

Denny studied electronic music privately with Peter Coraggio, Don Slepian and Allen Strange. He also learned much through association with Microtonalists Erv Wilson, Ivor Darreg, Jonathan Glasier, Lou Harrison, Ralph David Hill, John Chalmers Jr., Easley Blackwood and George Secor.

Denny has traveled extensively throughout the Western Hemisphere and Hawaiian Islands. While in Hawaii, he co-founded with Don Slepian the Hawaii Electronic Music Group, which was a cooperative Electronic Music studio with regular events and performances. He also manufactured custom analog electronic musical instruments, and participated in the development of Electronic music technology through the monthly design newsletter, Electronotes. He edited a community newspaper, co-managed a Food Cooperative and served on the boards of several community organizations. His radio show, “NEW MUSIC-WHAT’S THAT?” was broadcast on KTUH-FM for three years.