source file: mills2.txt Date: Mon, 10 Jun 1996 09:30:55 -0700 Subject: RE Brian's Post From: John Chalmers Last night Brian McLaren dropped off some new messages to be posted to our list as he is on his way back from San Diego to his home in Oregon. The vast majority of these are informative and temperate.The first one, however, I am posting with some reluctance because of its content and lack of current topicality. Nevertheless, I am doing so because upon re-reading some posts by Greg Taylor early in May, I agree with Brian that the charges and innuendos of bigotry, racism, and anti-Semitism demand a reply. In the present social climate, such statements are "fighting words," and Brian is entitled to access to the same forum as his accuser. To be fair to Greg, I don't think he meant to libel Brian and I suspect that his statements represented rhetorical excess rather than malice. (In fact Greg partially apologized for one of them.) Let's get this episode over with and get back to microtonal/xenharmonic music. Brian said that his visit to the Sonic Arts Gallery was very product and that he had recorded 86 hours of new music in the last six weeks. Bill Wesley completed a new instrument, the Quadulator, a percusion instrument made of tuned weighted metal tongues. Depending upon how it is played, certain of the tones resemble kettle gongs, and Partch's Cloud Chamber bowls and Whang Gun. An article describing Wesley's instruments is being prepared for submission to Experimental Musical Instruments. Most of Bill's instruments are variations on the Kalimba/Mbira plucked tongue concept and are tuned in a quas-pythagorean system. --John Received: from eartha.mills.edu [144.91.3.20] by vbv40.ezh.nl with SMTP-OpenVMS via TCP/IP; Mon, 10 Jun 1996 18:32 +0100 Received: from by eartha.mills.edu via SMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id JAA02849; Mon, 10 Jun 1996 09:32:00 -0700 Date: Mon, 10 Jun 1996 09:32:00 -0700 Message-Id: Errors-To: madole@ella.mills.edu Reply-To: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Originator: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Sender: tuning@eartha.mills.edu