source file: mills2.txt Date: Thu, 12 Jun 1997 21:56:01 +0200 Subject: Re: scary micromusic From: Daniel Wolf Haverstick's comments are deeply personal and should be respected as such. My own tastes in music are probably very different from his, but the variety of musical experience is one aspect of the intrinsic interest in music. Sometimes I hit very heavy boundaries - pieces of music or repertoires that simply don't work for me; some music that others treasure is simply not usable as music for me. And that reminds me of Gordon Mumma's culinary example: there are some things that other people or peoples use for food that I am unable, be it through biology or aculturation, to use for food myself. (Hostess Snowballs, asefaetida, and bitter melon top my personal list of not-foods, while lots of folks probably would be dismayed on what they might find inmy kitchen cabinets). The challenge of becoming anthropologically aware is not to learn to use what we taste or hear as non-foods or non-musics as foods or music, but simply to appreciate and respect the diversity of tastes present within our single species. (The previous discussion of neanderthal woodwinds had aspects of a curious but charming variation on this theme). Received: from ns.ezh.nl [137.174.112.59] by vbv40.ezh.nl with SMTP-OpenVMS via TCP/IP; Fri, 13 Jun 1997 00:56 +0200 Received: by ns.ezh.nl; (5.65v3.2/1.3/10May95) id AA28752; Fri, 13 Jun 1997 00:56:38 +0200 Date: Fri, 13 Jun 1997 00:56:38 +0200 Received: from ella.mills.edu by ns (smtpxd); id XA28746 Received: (qmail 1602 invoked from network); 12 Jun 1997 22:56:10 -0000 Received: from localhost (HELO ella.mills.edu) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 12 Jun 1997 22:56:10 -0000 Message-Id: <199706122300.HAA01016@csnt1.cs.ust.hk> Errors-To: madole@mills.edu Reply-To: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Originator: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Sender: tuning@eartha.mills.edu