source file: m1506.txt Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1998 13:13:45 -0400 Subject: RE: Trey Gunn gives tuning list a thumbs up From: "Paul H. Erlich" >I would be extremely curious to know if he >has done any microtonal guitar work! When I saw ProjeKct Two a few months ago (Robert Fripp on Les Paul, Trey Gunn on Warr guitar, Adrian Belew on drums and a few solo acoustic guitar/vocal spots), all three had MIDI hookups and occasionally summoned some clearly microtonal soundscapes out of their gear. I think the King Crimson album "Thrakattak" has some of that stuff too. What I would love to hear is Fripp & Co. strap on some microtonal axes and try writing some genuine prog-metal riffs with purer as well as smaller intervals -- Fripp is always pushing the boundaries of tonality, so it seems like a logical step . . . I can report that power chords (open fifths with distorition) on the 22-tone guitar sound great despite being 7 cents flat, and any three-or-more-note subset of a "dominant ninth" chord (0 7 13 18 26 in 22-tET) sounds really good with distortion, much more reminiscent of Jon Catler's JI guitar than of standard 12-tone . . .