source file: mills2.txt Date: Mon, 25 Nov 1996 16:16:05 -0800 Subject: i lurk From: "Marcus Hobbs" hello, i'm a tuning list lurker. i am a computer animator at disney feature animation by day (and night), and a musician by night (and morning). i have a bachelors in math, for all it's worth, and professionally code software as part of my job duties. too much, in fact. i am now fighting carpal tunnel syndrome, hence the non-capped typing. i am tired of 12TET. sick to death of it. my first knowlege of alternate tunings was gained here on this list, found by way of the just intonation network web page. since then, i have been composing soundtrack type music, techno/dance music, and algorithmic composition using an ensoniq mr rack, and a kyma, in 19TET, and recently, 31 TET. haven't made it to just tunings just yet. my greatest desire is to hear other microtonal music, but alas, i know not where to find it (certainly not at tower records, i think). i just met stephen james taylor at a kyma user group meeting, and for the first time, heard his wonderful stuff. he knows many other microtonal compsers, so i'm hoping from here to continue to be exposed to new tunings. i really enjoy this list. i'm on many, and believe me, this is by far the most polite, professional, and substantial list. yeah, i'm a mclaren fan too. i wish there were an easy way to hear others' music on a daily basis. you'd think that we would have figured out a way to make that happen by now. with the advent of the kyma (tuning resolution: less than 0.0026 hz! or is it 0.026 hz? i forget), it's possible to think in terms of the entire audio spectrum as a canvas of sound, although midi persists to be the limiting factor in controlling it, and all things audio. as the kyma continues to develop, i hope to eventually not think in terms of "tuning", but in terms of painting sound images. sigh, someday. marcus Received: from ns.ezh.nl [137.174.112.59] by vbv40.ezh.nl with SMTP-OpenVMS via TCP/IP; Tue, 26 Nov 1996 04:09 +0100 Received: by ns.ezh.nl; (5.65v3.2/1.3/10May95) id AA07828; Tue, 26 Nov 1996 04:11:31 +0100 Received: from eartha.mills.edu by ns (smtpxd); id XA07814 Received: from by eartha.mills.edu via SMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id TAA20871; Mon, 25 Nov 1996 19:11:29 -0800 Date: Mon, 25 Nov 1996 19:11:29 -0800 Message-Id: <329A6D45.7300@interlinx.qc.ca> Errors-To: madole@ella.mills.edu Reply-To: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Originator: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Sender: tuning@eartha.mills.edu