source file: mills2.txt Date: Mon, 19 Aug 1996 15:25:30 -0700 Subject: RE: last comment on Partch From: PAULE Neil, I'm sorry to report that morbidity is actually very popular. In my neighborhood, I see quite a few people dressed as vampires and zombies and other generic corpses. They go to scary clubs and listen to music that makes your soul shudder. Personally, I enjoy the morbid aspects of Beethoven's late work as much as its more positive emotions. If an expanded set of pitches helps an emotion to come across, that to me is wonderful and makes the music worth paying attention to. I hear the future of music as a sonic exploration of emotions more difficult than those expressible with 5-limit materials. It'll take a lot of great composers to make this happen. Maybe - just maybe - Partch is one of those composers? -Paul Received: from ns.ezh.nl [137.174.112.59] by vbv40.ezh.nl with SMTP-OpenVMS via TCP/IP; Tue, 20 Aug 1996 01:51 +0200 Received: by ns.ezh.nl; (5.65v3.2/1.3/10May95) id AA04212; Tue, 20 Aug 1996 02:33:44 +0200 Received: from eartha.mills.edu by ns (smtpxd); id XA04091 Received: from by eartha.mills.edu via SMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id RAA19665; Mon, 19 Aug 1996 17:33:42 -0700 Date: Mon, 19 Aug 1996 17:33:42 -0700 Message-Id: Errors-To: madole@ella.mills.edu Reply-To: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Originator: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Sender: tuning@eartha.mills.edu