source file: mills2.txt Date: Tue, 12 Nov 1996 13:29:04 -0800 Subject: Brian descends from Sinai. Film at 11 (other stuff, too).... From: gtaylor@heurikon.com (One Cointreau, on ice....) It would appear that my hopes for a bit of newfound self-reflection (you know, the sort that might occur to the rest of us when we arrive late to an ad-hoc technological construct already in progress) on Brian's part are dashed again. Did the regular mantra "you people" remind anyone else of H. Ross Perot seated at a table with a bunch of charts and tables? :-). So - who will volunteer to let Brian know that there isn't a Design Police we can call and that *we* didn't write the search engines? And while we're at it, perhaps we could get the boy to telecommute to our day jobs so that we've got time to implement his directives. I'm getting the impression that this sprawly PoMo stuff annoys him because it doesn't offer a sufficiently robust vehicle for replacing the orthodoxies he fulminates against with orthodoxies of his own (that old seductive Rortian "Final Vocabulary"). Plus ca change.... On a less tiresome note, this past weekend found me down in Chicago for the second "Table of the Elements" festival. It was, in ways I might not have predicted, a real monument to some particularly visceral examples of Plomp and Levelt and the Japanese brothers K in action; we got two doses of Tony Conrad (once with Gastr del Sol, once in a trio [2 violins, 1 'cello]), some high amplitude studies in "roughness" and consonance at very low frequencies from Bernard Guenther, and Keiji Heino's high amplitude timbral engine along with Fushitsusha. I did my stealth recruitment thing by patiently trying to explain to the folks sitting with me what it was they were hearing. I tried as hard as I could to stick to layman's language, and it seemed to work pretty well - they bought me drinks for several evenings. Returning home, we actually *did* broadcast LaMonte Young's "The Well-Tuned Piano" all the way through from 9:00-2:00 AM. One youthful caller rang up to whine for "something that doesn't suck" [Hardfloor, I think he meant], but the rest of the calls were overwhelmingly curious and positive conversations of the "I thought at first that this was outta tune, but what are those little high noises I keep hearing?" or "How does he get the sound of the piano to 'slide' like that?" This is an indirect reminder that I'm still soliciting work from any of you who're interested in being included in the playlist of the upcoming all-non12TET RTQE special. LaMonte was the plow that broke the soil. Join your pals messrs. Polansky and Sethares Scholz and Haverstick. If you're interested, drop me a line. 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; Tue, 12 Nov 1996 22:39 +0100 Received: by ns.ezh.nl; (5.65v3.2/1.3/10May95) id AA01848; Tue, 12 Nov 1996 22:40:36 +0100 Received: from eartha.mills.edu by ns (smtpxd); id XA01851 Received: from by eartha.mills.edu via SMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id NAA08491; Tue, 12 Nov 1996 13:40:33 -0800 Date: Tue, 12 Nov 1996 13:40:33 -0800 Message-Id: <14961112213141/0005695065PK2EM@MCIMAIL.COM> Errors-To: madole@ella.mills.edu Reply-To: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Originator: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Sender: tuning@eartha.mills.edu