source file: mills2.txt Date: Mon, 22 Jul 1996 13:55:43 -0700 Subject: Re: TUNING digest 785 From: marcus@fa.disney.com > Having subscribed to this wonderful list for a year and a half I've > finally got around to trying to work with some non-12tet tunings. I did > have some quarter-tone pieces of mine performed years ago when I was at > the Royal College, and still shudder when I recall overhearing someone in > the audience ask his neighbour, 'Have they finished tuning up yet?' (As a > matter of fact _I_ wasn't sure whether they had or not.) hi there, your experience sounds similar to mine! i've been composing both in 12ET and 19TET for a while. i always have to go through a short adjustment period ( a few minutes) when i go from one to the other. today, i did a (non-rigorous) experiment where i took a 19TET piece, and forced my office mate to listen to it for a few times. at first, she shook her head and said "this just sounds so out of tune to me", but after about 5 or 6 listens, she said "oh...hey...this is falling into place". then, i had her play her favorite CD (a 12TET piece), and she just "tripped". it took her a few listens to get back into 12TET mode. at this point, my non-microtonalist friend became convinced about how arbitrary tuning systems are. i don't have a biliography for this. ;-) my opinion is that it will take a while for people to get into alternate tunings on a global scale...the hardest part is to convince them to listen to new pieces many times. i'm pretty optimistic though. marcus Received: from eartha.mills.edu [144.91.3.20] by vbv40.ezh.nl with SMTP-OpenVMS via TCP/IP; Mon, 22 Jul 1996 23:05 +0100 Received: from by eartha.mills.edu via SMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id OAA22315; Mon, 22 Jul 1996 14:05:36 -0700 Date: Mon, 22 Jul 1996 14:05:36 -0700 Message-Id: <31F3EBB7.7541@adnc.com> Errors-To: madole@ella.mills.edu Reply-To: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Originator: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Sender: tuning@eartha.mills.edu