The Celestial Band is an anti-postmodernist musician's collective which performs and promotes music in just intonation tuning. Musically, The Celestial Band aims to take a stance against:

1. explicit linear development (goal-oriented movement in music),
   
2. modulation (particularly as a means of facilitating such movement),
   
3. tempered tuning (which, in its aim to facilitate modulation, contradicts the natural truth of harmonics),
   
4. the belief that music must possess or provoke external (worldly) meaning, and
   
5. the obligation (some consider it a freedom) for listeners to personally "construct" such meaning through imposing dramatic narrative or associative interpretation/analysis. (We believe this obligation, which is actually necessary to the process of listening to highly literate music, is not by any means intrinsic to music itself, but indeed imposed. It may also encourage the following: the dubious view that music is somehow fundamentally concerned with human emotions and events, individual empowerment through music, competitiveness, 'newness for the sake of newness', and a specific type of listening that is necessarily "critical" - i.e. one that detaches analysis from perception.)