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Jose L Garcia (b. 1953) is an American microtonal composer, musician, and programmer. In the 1970s and 80s, Garcia played across numerous genres and collaborated with a wide range of collectives, from Dick Whitsell's jazz band to world music ensembles performing traditional Japanese gagaku and West-African music. Currently, he's mainly composing ambient computer music.


Garcia has been closely associated with Erv Wilson, microtonal theorist and musicologist. In 1977, he co-founded a microtonal post-punk band, Cipher, with Marsha Mann, re-fretting all guitars and bass to one of Wilson's seven-limit 22-tone scales. In 2018, Jose Garcia re-released Cipher's [url=https://www.discogs.com/release/1886126]self-titled debut LP[/url] with additional tracks on iTunes and SoundCloud.

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