source file: mills2.txt Date: Tue, 11 Jun 1996 12:59:15 -0700 Subject: LaMonte Young From: jmax@interport.net (John Maxwell Hobbs) >Date: Mon, 10 Jun 96 14:54 EST >From: PAULE >To: tuning >Subject: RE: NYC 6/8/96: Lamonte Young and the Fo >Funny, I thought the keyboard sound was a very accurate emulation of an >acoustic piano. I was not at the concerts at the Knitting Factory, but having helped to produce the two weeks of concerts that made it on to the album, I can tell what I do know about some of this. When he performed at The Kitchen, he only used the piano patch. The Bflat is tuned to 60hz. As far as I know, the Korg is 48 note polyphonic. During the opening section which LaMonte refers to as "clouds" a great deal of difference tones are produced, thanks to the tuning. That's probably what you're hearing that's not subject to the attack and release >The frantic arpeggios seemed to be a means of >projecting the pure, resonant coinciding overtones that resulted from the >pure tuning. I suppose the faster the arpeggios are, the less variation is >heard in the intensity of these overtones, as all the phase-cancellation and >reinforcement would average out, but I was surprised at how the overtones >did not seem to be subject to the attack or inevitable release (how many >notes can the Korg sustain at once? infinity?) of the notes. Anyone know how >LaMonte does it? I think I read that he claimed to have such a fine control >of timing that he could make a certain overtone resonate by repeatedly >striking a key ar keys just at the crest of its cycle. Is this really >humanly possible? Good question. LaMonte's been exploring this terrain for a long time. Who knows what he's trained himself to hear. John Maxwell Hobbs Producing Director/New Technology, The Kitchen http://www.panix.com/kitchen jmax@interport.net http://www.interport.net/~jmax/ Received: from eartha.mills.edu [144.91.3.20] by vbv40.ezh.nl with SMTP-OpenVMS via TCP/IP; Wed, 12 Jun 1996 18:32 +0100 Received: from by eartha.mills.edu via SMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id JAA25508; Wed, 12 Jun 1996 09:32:42 -0700 Date: Wed, 12 Jun 1996 09:32:42 -0700 Message-Id: <9606121630.AA00600@arthaud.saclay.cea.fr> Errors-To: madole@ella.mills.edu Reply-To: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Originator: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Sender: tuning@eartha.mills.edu