source file: mills2.txt Date: Wed, 13 Nov 1996 12:31:17 -0800 Subject: Boycotting the demclarenizer From: gtaylor@heurikon.com (One Cointreau, on ice....) >From: Daniel Wolf <106232.3266@compuserve.com> >Subject: Subscription options? >Some years ago, it was possible to subscribe to _Hi Fidelity_ magazine with >or without _Musical America_ magazine enclosed. Is it possible to subscribe >to the tuning list without the McLaren items? I think you'll have to content yourself with the hiatus between Brian's bouts of intemperate ranting [i.e. while he's off in his little lair imagining American musical academia by reading back issues of PNM at the public library and carefully crafting straw persons whose burning provides the heat necessary to warm his dish of bile]. Now that he's back to pointing out to us all why he isn't wrong about anything and fulminating at a world which doesn't recognize either his genius or his bias set [cue quantized track composed of a sulky bank of cryptocellos in 11-limit JI] *and* now turning his lordly gaze on the wonders of the web with precisely the same witlessness he brought to bear on the notion of canonicity, the season has begun anew. Isn't it enough that we've had a brief season of relatively high content Brian? Ignoring him only encourages his more delusional episodes. I am noticing a marked rise in grumbling about la Brian's new batch of stuff - has dissing the boy moved from those funky littie SoHo clubs to Lincoln Center, so to speak? And by the way, as an obligatory nod to those 'orrible Modernists who constantly bombard us with the dreaded mindbogglizer radiation from their U.N. black satellites, I've actually found some recent Petey Boulez that I *like.* Horrors! It's the recent release of "Explosante/Fixe" on Deutsche Gramaphone. Those of you who've found those spectral boys of some interest [P. Hurel, D. Cohen, T. Murail] will, I think, be somewhat pleasantly surprised by what seemed to me to be a stronger sense of colour and a bit of playfulness - to say nothing of some harmonic stuff that sounds positively *consonant* in moments. Speaking as a non-Modernist, I'm actually going to be playing the thing for my radio listeners - it's that good. I understand that DG is also finally going to be putting out "Repons" sometime next year, as well, so we'll all have easy access to some canonical Modernist Cabal stuff in glorious CD stereo. Oh yeah - remember that I mentioned going to the Table of the Elements festival in Chicago last weekend? I forgot to mention - Tony Conrad's "Four Violins" (dating from his days with LaMonte Young in the early 60s) has been released by them on vinyl, with a rumoured CD version to follow soon. In the meantime, you can content yourself with the vinyl *and* "Slapping Pythagoras," also on TotE. Microtonally yours, you-know-who _ 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; Wed, 13 Nov 1996 21:51 +0100 Received: by ns.ezh.nl; (5.65v3.2/1.3/10May95) id AA04692; Wed, 13 Nov 1996 21:52:22 +0100 Received: from eartha.mills.edu by ns (smtpxd); id XA04697 Received: from by eartha.mills.edu via SMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id MAA21483; Wed, 13 Nov 1996 12:52:20 -0800 Date: Wed, 13 Nov 1996 12:52:20 -0800 Message-Id: <199611131550_MC1-BF4-8584@compuserve.com> Errors-To: madole@ella.mills.edu Reply-To: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Originator: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Sender: tuning@eartha.mills.edu