source file: mills2.txt Date: Wed, 2 Oct 1996 15:22:45 -0700 Subject: Breaking stride (airplay, perhaps?) From: gtaylor@heurikon.com (One Cointreau, on ice....) As I think I've mentioned before, my weekly radio program on the local Pacifica affiliate usually collects and sequences a bunch of music with little regard for genre. The usual wheezy joke pictures me as enticing impressionable youth to a lifetime of Darmstadt honkin' and tweetin'. I think that a look at http://www.msn.fullfeed.com/~gtaylor/RTQE.html ought to provide a more nuanced view. Well, lately I've been turning over the thought of doing a *whole* fenced-off special of work in other tunings; a program which might include your work. There are a couple of things that led me to this decision. First, I've been routinely getting queries lately whenever I run non12TET work (most recently, it happened that some David First and Jukka Tiensuu and Alistair Riddell wound up coming one after another completely by accident), and I'm reminded that I've not done an all non12TET show for years. Second, I think that my colleague Arthur and I will be trying to procure an extra hour+ from our late-night/red-eye pal gwillard and running all of LaMonte Young's "The Well-Tuned Piano" at some point in the near future. It's been six or seven years since we've done it, and the time seems right. Finally, I asked local wunderkind Bill Sethares if he'd be interested in coming on RTQE and playing some music and talking about his work before he turned world traveller. I'll be getting to it sometime this fall or early winter. This clustering suggests that maybe it's time to solicit your advice and your recordings, should you be interested in contributing to such a project. If you've got any advice on what you think would be a nice "here's what's possible outside of 12TET" show [for an erudite but "normal" radio audience], drop me a line. I may already have some examples of your work [certainly Larry Polansky, and Ted Mook and and the Artifact folks have been great, and Carter Scholz has kept me up on the occasional Just Intonation tape releases, for example. I know that you're probably not in the habit of doling out promos like candy, so it's best to be prudent before you start posting me stuff I already have]. Length will eventually be a concern; you'd be surprised at just how quickly 2 hours of uninterrupted airtime can fill up. I'd very much like to keep the announcer's blathering to a minimum in order to maximize the time for cortical damage, as well. In a sense, I'd also be interested in what some of you view as more or less "canonical" pieces [for example, which Wendy Carlos from Beauty in the Beast would I run?] as well. I think it might be best to take this to email. I'll let you know as things progress. _ 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, 4 Oct 1996 11:34 +0200 Received: by ns.ezh.nl; (5.65v3.2/1.3/10May95) id AA01881; Fri, 4 Oct 1996 10:35:55 +0100 Received: from sun4nl.NL.net by ns (smtpxd); id XA01877 Received: from eartha.mills.edu by sun4nl.NL.net (5.65b/NLnet-3.4) id AA27722; Fri, 4 Oct 1996 11:00:34 +0200 Received: from by eartha.mills.edu via SMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id BAA25853; Fri, 4 Oct 1996 01:59:12 -0700 Date: Fri, 4 Oct 1996 01:59:12 -0700 Message-Id: <199610040455_MC1-A07-BEFB@compuserve.com> Errors-To: madole@ella.mills.edu Reply-To: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Originator: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Sender: tuning@eartha.mills.edu