Margo Schulter has been interested in European medieval, Renaissance, and Manneristic music since 1966; in 1998, John Chalmers of Xenharmonikon invited her to join the Alternate Tuning List, she saw Xenharmonikon 17, and was fascinated by what she read. In 2001-2002, she had the precious opportunity to collaborate with George Secor in an exploration of his 17-tone well-temperament of 1978; this process led her to explore Near Eastern music, as well as isoharmonic sonorities and Kathleen Schlesinger's superparticular melodic series. Jacky Ligon was a vital formative influence, and later Ozan Yarman and Jacques Dudon and Stephen Pohlit. She lives in Sacramento, California.