source file: mills2.txt Date: Thu, 29 Aug 1996 16:12:46 -0700 Subject: ICMC, you see emcee, we all see.... From: gtaylor@heurikon.com (One Cointreau, on ice....) >Subject: ICMC >Message-ID: > >Just a quick note to the list complimenting John Chalmers and Bill Sethares >for their excellent Tutorial sessions on experimental intonation and timbre >at the ICMC in Hong Kong (John's was terriffic; I missed Bill's but heard >great things). Also, thanks to Linus Liu for showing a group of us around >and being so hospitable in Hong Kong! I'll second that, and add that (having been present in the flesh for *both* of the tutorials) they were both models of erudition and that particular variety of "the soft answer that turneth away wrath" that pretty much guaranteed a serious hearing. One of the gentlemen in the auditorium seated behind me seems to have found John's presentation of lattices of interest in the sense that he'd probably discovered that some of the things he loves about serial composition and some of his skills as a table traverser might actually map somehow onto this strange and new territory. The results will be quite different, but I'm perfectly happy to watch folks discover *any* path into working in the space. I've also gotta say that I heard enough of an excerpt of Kraig Grady's recent disc of Anaphorian music [where they reduplicate for stress?] to be *very* impressed. Our own Eric Lyon's electroacoustic decentrefest "Red Velvet" was a major shredding experience. Let's see - I also discovered that ffitch and myself probably attended the very same screenings of Rocky Horror in Salt Lake City in the 70s [tiny world], and Larry Polansky was his usual beatific and sane presence. My only regret is that I wound up at the Teaware Museum instead of finding out about the Linus Liu goodwill tour of instrument shops. Bill Sethares' bitchin' green erhu case is (as the kids say) *da bomb.* And one other thing - can you *believe* this? There were actually pieces played in the *concerts* in non12TET. The composers weren't clubbed to death by those representatives of Yurrupean High Modernism in attendance, either. There was certainly a number of "usual suspects" pieces as well - don't get me wrong. But it *is* changing, so I believe that things are looking up for a non12TET stealth recruitment program. This is particularly auspicious owing to the fact that the next ICMC is in Thessaloniki, in the bosom of those tetrachordal folks. I'm sorely tempted to turn away from my Indonesianisms and to take a run at channelling a hiphop-flavored Archytus zoned for Light Industrial myself. And Bill Sethares? In terms of papers, he's one of the *major* meme generators. I kept hearing about the tutorial from other folks who wanted to know if I'd gone. Definitely executive timbre. With regards, Gregory _ I would go to her, lay it all out, unedited. The plot was a simple one, paraphrasable by the most ingenuous of nets. The life we lead is our only maybe. The tale we tell is the must that we make by living it. [Richard Powers, "Galatea 2.2"] Gregory Taylor/Heurikon Corporation/Madison, WI Received: from ns.ezh.nl [137.174.112.59] by vbv40.ezh.nl with SMTP-OpenVMS via TCP/IP; Fri, 30 Aug 1996 04:30 +0200 Received: by ns.ezh.nl; (5.65v3.2/1.3/10May95) id AA06996; Fri, 30 Aug 1996 04:31:54 +0200 Received: from eartha.mills.edu by ns (smtpxd); id XA07107 Received: from by eartha.mills.edu via SMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id TAA23030; Thu, 29 Aug 1996 19:31:49 -0700 Date: Thu, 29 Aug 1996 19:31:49 -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