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Iraqi-British musician Khyam Allami began to study the oud at the age of 23, after years of learning guitar, bass and drums. The composer
, who is now completing a PhD in composition at the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire, says that biases are deeply ingrained – even in modern music-making.
In an era when
musicians and composers are increasingly dependent on digital apparatus
, he says the dearth of tools catering to musicians working in traditions that use microtones, rather than the classical
western 12-tone octave, reveals a deeply ingrained bias stemming from the supremacy of
western music theory.
Frustrated by the way this