source file: mills3.txt Date: Tue, 25 Nov 1997 10:18:54 +0100 Subject: Odds and ends From: gbreed@cix.compulink.co.uk (Graham Breed) Brian Lee wrote: > just been listening to Gyorgy Ligeti in a programme on BBC's Radio 3 > talking about his horn trio. He talks about his dissatisfaction with equal > temperament and his meeting with Harry Partch in Stanford in 1972 and > having a chance to not only listen to but to play on the instruments. > Apparently the trio uses an equal tempered piano and the horn and violin > playing in "natural" tunings. I heard that! It sounded really good. There was tension between the piano and the others, with the piano as the poorly tuned one. It was on quite late, though, so I wasn't fully alert. It's from a "forthcoming" CD. I knew nothing about the meeting between Ligeti and Partch. Does anyone? After a brief experiment, I've concluded that the internal MIDI stream in a PC is _not_ restricted to the MIDI hardware speed. I think I was getting controller changes every 43 microseconds, although I haven't worked out Cubase's timing format yet. Maybe someone with a Tropez Plus could measure how long the tuning dumps really take to arrive. I don't usually concern myself with acoustic instruments, but wouldn't a 19 or 22TET flute make more sense than a "quartertone" one? SMTPOriginator: tuning@eartha.mills.edu From: Carl Lumma Subject: The only plausible excuse for... enjoying your own music? PostedDate: 25-11-97 10:28:30 SendTo: CN=coul1358/OU=AT/O=EZH ReplyTo: tuning@eartha.mills.edu $MessageStorage: 0 $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: 25-11-97 10:27:00-25-11-97 10:27:02,25-11-97 10:27:03-25-11-97 10:27:03 DeliveredDate: 25-11-97 10:27:03 Categories: $Revisions: Received: from ns.ezh.nl ([137.174.112.59]) by notesrv2.ezh.nl (Lotus SMTP MTA SMTP v4.6 (462.2 9-3-1997)) with SMTP id C125655A.0033E5B2; Tue, 25 Nov 1997 10:26:51 +0100 Received: by ns.ezh.nl; (5.65v3.2/1.3/10May95) id AA00491; Tue, 25 Nov 1997 10:28:30 +0100 Date: Tue, 25 Nov 1997 10:28:30 +0100 Received: from ella.mills.edu by ns (smtpxd); id XA00489 Received: (qmail 1249 invoked from network); 23 Nov 1997 17:10:24 -0800 Received: from localhost (HELO ella.mills.edu) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 23 Nov 1997 17:10:24 -0800 Message-Id: <19971124011351578.AAA197@NIETZSCHE> Errors-To: madole@mills.edu Reply-To: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Originator: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Sender: tuning@eartha.mills.edu