source file: mills2.txt Date: Sun, 27 Oct 1996 01:46:59 -0800 Subject: When? NOW! From: curley@ucla.edu (Doren Garcia) In Tuning Digest 876 Jon Szanto states: I imagine that Western microtonal music (or however you would describe what goes on here in the tuning list) will remain a fairly small circle of cognoscenti until/unless more is done to evoke both live performance and performable 'settings' (scores, plots, general improvisation instructions to others, etc). I have given this a little thought (maybe wishful thinking). Var=E9se's predictions that noise and later recording technology would become integral parts of music have been realized. It was in my opinion Jimi Hendrix who was the catalyst for this integration. He was a kid with a new type of instrument who was fooling around with feedback. Prior to this feedback was anathema to 'good' musicians. A similar situation will probably happen with 'tinytonality'. A kid with a computer and a midi keyboard will mess around with transitionalizing through tunings and this person will 'get it'. This person will then intuitively create music that swings like mad. Everyone's minds will be blown. Musicians will not be able to resist the resulting wave, just as the wave that the 'Well-tempered Clavier' begot was irresistible. Our job, should we decide to accept it, is to expose as many of these scions to the inevitable. I can hardly wait. I can hardly wait. Personally I can hardly wait. Doren Los Angeles Mvsevm of the Modern Poodle Received: from ns.ezh.nl [137.174.112.59] by vbv40.ezh.nl with SMTP-OpenVMS via TCP/IP; Mon, 28 Oct 1996 19:17 +0200 Received: by ns.ezh.nl; (5.65v3.2/1.3/10May95) id AA05285; Sun, 27 Oct 1996 04:09:41 +0100 Received: from eartha.mills.edu by ns (smtpxd); id XA06321 Received: from by eartha.mills.edu via SMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id UAA07604; Sat, 26 Oct 1996 20:09:37 -0700 Date: Sat, 26 Oct 1996 20:09:37 -0700 Message-Id: <3272E0DB.7285@cavehill.dnet.co.uk> Errors-To: madole@ella.mills.edu Reply-To: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Originator: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Sender: tuning@eartha.mills.edu