source file: mills2.txt Date: Thu, 19 Dec 1996 11:19:20 -0800 Subject: What? No lectures on ratios? From: gtaylor@heurikon.com (One Cointreau, on ice....) Someone asked via e-mail about how I'd do a "Traditional Values" non12TET program and what I was planning to run. I thought I'd mention what I've pretty much completely decided to do because I've realized in a flash that my engagements *here* have had some sort of effect on the content. As it currently stands, I've made the decision to be *extremely* clear that what I've chosen to broadcast is in no way a "canonical" view - it's an arbitrary circle drawn according to the recordings I could easily acquire, listener requests, etc. I'd also initially thought that I'd bombard listeners with *lots* of little example pieces - but I've opted instead to go for much longer performances which ought to include ample time for the novice ear to start responding in a more comfortable fashion. Finally, I think I've managed to get my hands on a copy of LaMonte's "The Turtle - His Dreams and Journeys" on the positively ancient Jazz Edition X label (yep - the one with Jon Hassell and Tony Conrad, et. al.) - it seems a shame *not* to present a good chunk of it, given its archival interest. So the program will pretty much break up into looking at a couple of "kinds" of microtonalists - the "outsiders" like Harry and Ivor (a tip of the hat to Ives here), some work from those awful "academic" sorts who actually worked in the stuff (Ben J. and Easley B. - hey, that sounds like a rap group!), and some stuff from LaMonte and Terry (with a nod to the influence of Pandit Pran Nath and non-western sources in general) as exemplars of the 20 or 30-year-old experimental/minimal wing. I can keep one of my long-time listeners who's pestered me to hear the Columbia discs of Partch's "Delusion of the Fury" happy, too. I didn't realize it at the time, but I think that part of this program is starting rather to drift from a position of polemic (that is, an exercise in the didactic) toward one in which we let the listener's *ears* do the initial work, and then suggest in program #2 (*you* lot) that this isn't merely a kind of historically fenced curiousity, but instead a field in which there's considerable idiosyncracy and range. I think that #3 is now cruising toward contemporary performances of the older works (Ted Mook's Partch disc, the Dean Drummond stuff) in addition to non-western musics outside of 12tET. One of the interesting things about this broadcast thing involves watching a given idea of collection of works "drift." I honestly think that I might have had something considerably more didactic in mind - suggested by the recent exchange of "course notes," perhaps. But what seems to be emerging is more something more for the ears. Does this mean that my choice to foreground the WORK rather than the ideas and equations mean that I'm channelling Brian? :-) Gregory _ When I pronounce the word Future,/the first syllable already belongs to the past./When I pronounce the word Silence,/I destroy it./When I pronounce the word Nothing,/I make something no nonbeing can hold./ (Wislawa Szymborska) Gregory Taylor, Heurikon Corp. http://www.msn.fullfeed.com/~gtaylor/home.html Received: from ns.ezh.nl [137.174.112.59] by vbv40.ezh.nl with SMTP-OpenVMS via TCP/IP; Thu, 19 Dec 1996 20:33 +0100 Received: by ns.ezh.nl; (5.65v3.2/1.3/10May95) id AA09239; Thu, 19 Dec 1996 20:36:05 +0100 Received: from eartha.mills.edu by ns (smtpxd); id XA09232 Received: from by eartha.mills.edu via SMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id LAA27929; Thu, 19 Dec 1996 11:35:57 -0800 Date: Thu, 19 Dec 1996 11:35:57 -0800 Message-Id: <9612191116.ZM1156@frollo> Errors-To: madole@ella.mills.edu Reply-To: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Originator: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Sender: tuning@eartha.mills.edu