source file: m1370.txt Date: Mon, 30 Mar 1998 14:23:13 -0600 Subject: RE: microtonality in popular music From: "Loffink, John" John Loffink john.loffink@compaq.com > From: gbreed@cix.compulink.co.uk (Graham Breed) > > There are a load of tunes that already use "ethnic" samples. I'll > bet a lot of them way off 12-equal. [Loffink, John] I bet not. Most of those samples and loops are painstakingly retuned to 12-equal. > Seriously, movies have such a huge budget you can't expect too much > experimentation, especially as the people who hold the purse strings > aren't going to be big musos. Now, if an established film composer > were to go microtonal, then we'd be in business. If the audience > don't realise they're listening to microtonal music, they might > accidentally like it! > [Loffink, John] If one includes classical music borrowed for the movies, then microtonal music already has the examples of Ligeti used in "2001" and Penderecki used in "The Excorcist." John Loffink john.loffink@compaq.com