source file: mills3.txt Date: Thu, 18 Sep 1997 02:43:07 +0200 Subject: Iggy Pop and the One-Footed Bride From: "Jonathan M. Szanto" Yesterday, I mentioned: >I like what a lot of these people are doing (Neil, Catler and the lot), but >let's get a grip: we are talking one *veeerrrryyy* long evolutionary curve >here... And Gary Morrison asked: > I thought I followed your train of thought until this sentence. Perhaps >I'm just being dense! Couldja elaborate a bit? First off, if Gary could follow my train of thought, he's doing better than me! What I meant was that any kind of 'sea change' that would lead to the widespread adoption of non-12tet in a large pop idiom would have to occur over a very long time, and could probably only occur with concurrent changes in culture, etc. The other point I wanted to make, but my train of thought left me at the station, was that we must be careful to not carry too much of a Western or Euro-centric view on all of this. While the bulk of the consumers may be in the developed 'Western' world, I have heard pop bands in Madagascar that have stretched things, mostly owing to offshoots of vocal music. Additionally, aren't there quite a few popular artists in the arabic world utilizing non-12tet instruments (along with obviously non12 vocals)? Not an area of expertise for me, but I was under that impression. Just seems to me we (those of us here) are in a pretty subtle niche. Now, back to my Spring 1997 issue of 1/1, which just (no pun intended) arrived today. Or was it arrived just today... Cheers, Jon BTW, I won't waste bandwidth here, but a dear musician friend sent me a hilarious posting on "How To Sing The Blues" -- if you want an email of it, let me know off-list. *------------------------------------------------------------------* Jonathan M. Szanto | Nearly one year old, Partch's place online Corporeal Meadows | is really showing signs of urbane sprawl... jszanto@adnc.com | http://www.adnc.com/web/jszanto/welcome.html *------------------------------------------------------------------* SMTPOriginator: tuning@eartha.mills.edu From: nowitzky@pacificnet.net Subject: Re: Writing Csound from Scala1.3 PostedDate: 18-09-97 12:53:47 SendTo: CN=coul1358/OU=AT/O=EZH ReplyTo: tuning@eartha.mills.edu $UpdatedBy: CN=notesrv2/OU=Server/O=EZH,CN=coul1358/OU=AT/O=EZH,CN=Manuel op de Coul/OU=AT/O=EZH RouteServers: CN=notesrv2/OU=Server/O=EZH,CN=notesrv1/OU=Server/O=EZH RouteTimes: 18-09-97 12:53:38-18-09-97 12:53:39,18-09-97 12:52:52-18-09-97 12:52:53 DeliveredDate: 18-09-97 12:52:53 Categories: $Revisions: Received: from ns.ezh.nl by notesrv2.ezh.nl (Lotus SMTP MTA v1.1 (385.6 5-6-1997)) with SMTP id C1256516.003BD4F3; Thu, 18 Sep 1997 12:53:31 +0200 Received: by ns.ezh.nl; (5.65v3.2/1.3/10May95) id AA06224; Thu, 18 Sep 1997 12:53:47 +0200 Date: Thu, 18 Sep 1997 12:53:47 +0200 Received: from ella.mills.edu by ns (smtpxd); id XA06204 Received: (qmail 9098 invoked from network); 18 Sep 1997 10:53:43 -0000 Received: from localhost (HELO ella.mills.edu) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 18 Sep 1997 10:53:43 -0000 Message-Id: <2.2.16.19970918035038.0a074074@pacificnet.net> Errors-To: madole@mills.edu Reply-To: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Originator: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Sender: tuning@eartha.mills.edu