source file: mills2.txt Date: Fri, 25 Oct 1996 09:46:38 -0700 Subject: Re: Jonathan's "good controversy" From: alves@osiris.ac.hmc.edu (Bill Alves) >Nonetheless, and cognizant of the >wonderful pieces that have been done in 'non-realtime', does any of it >compare to the community experience of, say, playing in a gamelan? Of course not, because they are two different things, each with its own advantages and disadvantages for the composer, their own experience for the listener. Having one does not preclude having the other, just as the existence of "unauthentic" Partch performances does not preclude "corporeal" performances. =-) Bill ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ ^ Bill Alves email: alves@hmc.edu ^ ^ Harvey Mudd College URL: http://www2.hmc.edu/~alves/ ^ ^ 301 E. Twelfth St. (909)607-4170 (office) ^ ^ Claremont CA 91711 USA (909)621-8360 (fax) ^ ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Received: from ns.ezh.nl [137.174.112.59] by vbv40.ezh.nl with SMTP-OpenVMS via TCP/IP; Fri, 25 Oct 1996 21:50 +0200 Received: by ns.ezh.nl; (5.65v3.2/1.3/10May95) id AA16309; Fri, 25 Oct 1996 21:52:36 +0200 Received: from eartha.mills.edu by ns (smtpxd); id XA16551 Received: from by eartha.mills.edu via SMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id MAA12560; Fri, 25 Oct 1996 12:52:34 -0700 Date: Fri, 25 Oct 1996 12:52:34 -0700 Message-Id: <3235762173.11636383@ycrdi.com> Errors-To: madole@ella.mills.edu Reply-To: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Originator: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Sender: tuning@eartha.mills.edu