source file: mills2.txt Date: Fri, 15 Nov 1996 12:39:39 -0800 Subject: Apologias and Rumours of the Noise to Come From: gtaylor@heurikon.com (One Cointreau, on ice....) >From: Gary Morrison <71670.2576@CompuServe.COM> >Subject: Brian > I think it's important to understand - especially for those of you who are >new to the list - that it's very easy to get Brian McLaren all wrong. And wouldn't that be Brian's problem just a *teensy* bit? :-). I appreciate your apologia, Gary - but couldn't you have a word with Brian about how much better he'd come across by using a little judicious editing [replacing "X is" with "I believe X is" as a simple example]? I know for a fact that John Chalmers has attempted to proffer some advice about digital epistolary comportment, and my reading of Brian's return seems to suggest that it's had little effect. Perhaps you'll be more successful - is Brian's seeming need for spleen-venting *so* important that it requires a regular squad of disclaimers from his pals and so necessary that it runs the risk of having Brian marginalize *himself,* as he seems to be doing? I can't imagine that that's what he really wants. On a somewhat happier note, the estimable Dr. Bill Sethares [up and coming erhu player and globe-hopping bon vivant], in the course of some discussion about his contribution to my upcoming non12TET broadcast special, has mentioned that there are plans in the works to produce a CD containing some of the work of his that we've heard. It wasn't clear how much of this might be is pieces derived from his work in timbre/tuning and how much might exploit his current interest in adaptive tunings, but I hope he won't mind my suggesting that a number of you might be wishing to save your pennies. Bill's work is pretty wonderful stuff, and I'm delighted at the thought that it may see a little wider audience. If he doesn't mention the thing when it comes out, rest assured that I *will.* [usual disclaimer on my not benefitting from his work, etc.]. WATCH THIS SPACE. with regards, Gregory Taylor _ 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, 15 Nov 1996 22:38 +0100 Received: by ns.ezh.nl; (5.65v3.2/1.3/10May95) id AA13572; Fri, 15 Nov 1996 22:40:09 +0100 Received: from eartha.mills.edu by ns (smtpxd); id XA13508 Received: from by eartha.mills.edu via SMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id NAA29558; Fri, 15 Nov 1996 13:40:05 -0800 Date: Fri, 15 Nov 1996 13:40:05 -0800 Message-Id: <848088618@csst.com> Errors-To: madole@ella.mills.edu Reply-To: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Originator: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Sender: tuning@eartha.mills.edu