source file: mills2.txt Date: Tue, 4 Jun 1996 15:20:37 -0700 Subject: Frog Peak Web, Rankin From: John Chalmers I recently checked out Frog Peak Music's new WEB page at http://www.sover.net/~frogpeak/. I have to use Lynx, which prevents me from enjoying the graphics and color, but even so, it is most impressive. I urge all of you with WEB access to visit it ASAP. It's a wonderful resource for microtonal music, Gamelan, and other types of experimental and non-traditional musics, so check it out. FPM's philosophy and mission is best expressed in its own words: "Frog Peak Music is dedicated to exploring innovative technologies and aesthetics of publication and distribution, and committed to the idea of availability over promotion. Member artists determine which of their own works are included in Frog Peak Music, and how they are included. Frog Peak Music perpetuates and evolves the historical role of experimental independent publishing in the United States. By doing so, it engenders a hospitable publication environment for its members, and provides an example of some of the ways that artists might control their own work in a non-commercial, non-hierarchical fashion, erasing distinctions between artist and publisher." The site contains a complete catalogue of books, scores, recordings and journals, including Balungan (published by the American Gamelan Institute), and, all modesty aside, Xenharmonikon and "Divisions of the Tetrachord." Back issues of Peter Garland's Soundings and the Lingua Press books are also available. (I've mentioned only a very few of the items available) Featured artists include Warren Burt, Ivor Darreg, Carter Scholz, Lou Harrison, Phil Burk, Martin Bartlett, Ann LaBerge, Larry Polansky, Dan Wolf, Gayle Young and many, many others. (Pace Brian, there is even an Ivor Darreg subpage.) To change the subject: Mark Rankin called me last night to enquire if there was some way he could post an "ad" or notice to some WEB or internet site. He sells kits for converting 12-tet guitars (or other fretted instruments) to Interchangeable Fretboard instruments and he also sells extra custom fretboards. Anyway, does anyone know of such a site or list and its location? Mark is also a JI performer and music theory bibliophile/ bibliomane. --John Received: from eartha.mills.edu [144.91.3.20] by vbv40.ezh.nl with SMTP-OpenVMS via TCP/IP; Wed, 5 Jun 1996 07:20 +0100 Received: from by eartha.mills.edu via SMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id WAA13005; Tue, 4 Jun 1996 22:20:54 -0700 Date: Tue, 4 Jun 1996 22:20:54 -0700 Message-Id: <199606050519.XAA19219@freenet.uchsc.EDU> Errors-To: madole@ella.mills.edu Reply-To: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Originator: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Sender: tuning@eartha.mills.edu