Edward Clijsen is a PhD student at De Montfort University (UK), investigating innovative compositional applications of microtonal musical techniques to locate new expressive dimensions in music, supported by the AHRC through the Midlands4Cities (M4C) DTP. Clijsen’s research is concerned with how different (pre)compositional procedures can be systematically hybridised and synthesised to provide potential solutions to the problems in both realisation and handling that microtonality presents the composer, stressing the importance of developing formalised compositional methods for dealing with microtonal tuning constructs as holistic entities, beyond mere microtonal ‘inflections’ of what are otherwise conventional twelve-note contexts. His PhD research project, ‘Redividing the Octave for Expanded Tonal Spaces’, emphasises the importance of blending systematic and intuitive approaches to composition, and will devise and synthesise formalised generative systems through which the subtleties and complexities of microtonal tunings can be effectively handled and explored in composition to discover, compare and develop the expanded harmonic and melodic principles they afford.