"The other world is this": Maddie Ashman EP Review
Maddie Ashman is a composer and songwriter from London. Specialising in microtonal music, she has recently set out on a musical journey to escape the twelve fixed notes typically used within Western music. Microtonal guitars are designed to play intervals smaller than the standard semitone; they have two or three times the number of frets of a standard guitar, allowing for more melodic possibilities. The result is jarring to some, but when I came across a video of her playing on TikTok I was absolutely mesmerised.