Dear friends and acquaintances, please be aware of the following event in New York in January. Those of you who are not within travelling access of New York...
Hey all! Here is a new book on tuning. Describes the 'evolution' of tuning through primitive, practically unsuable scales like the ancients used to the morue...
I found this link, it's a Flash interface that let's you play and mix a synth. Yes it a game, but it's kind of fun, since not everyone has one on their...
Hey all, Here are some thoughts. If you were to add the numbers 24 and 18, how would you do it? Or better yet, if you were teaching an beginning math student...
Hey, Here is some C code to produce a useful type of scale which I invented some time ago. Thought I'd drag it out in case it's useful to anyone... enjoy! -...
Friends, Let me bounce some ideas off you all here. I am trying to come up with good english terms and symbols for a useful math operator I want to introduce ...
... Noop. That the Pythagorean Comma. The syntonic comma is the difference between four fifths and a major third. Other than that, yup. Yeah I use modular...
... OH, it's not that big a deal. Here's the summary of my various issues: 1) Base-12 ? YES I LOVE BASE 12. Way better than silly decimal. I have my own system...
... Yeah I was a bit surprised when you let out with that one fine day. ... Two step program: 1. Hi my name is Jeff and I'm a base 12 addict. 2. Hi Jeff ... ...
[Marc:] ... Sure, though some small assembly is required: Guide: Converting to a Dvorak keyboard layout ... Step #1 - wendycarlos.com - thank you Wendy for...
Marc et al, Well I got the emainder working nicely -- it had the result of encouraging me to take remainders of high powers, which shook out some nice bugs to...
Test. This is just a test to see if Yahoo is up and going again. If so, it means that this list is up and going once again. springful greetings to all, ...
(I posted this to the offtopic group but suddenly realized that this is the place to discuss it instead.) -- Just got sent a nice article with the following ...
Chock full of great quotes this article is! "Universities are about bookishness, not music. The token at the end of the tunnel, the Ph.D. dissertation, is...
"Nurturing our composers in the university, as we do in the USA, has worked negatively on our music. The harried, flustered composition professors are under ...
... Who does "our" refer to? Academic music, or just academic music at UCSD (where I believe Puckette is based)? ... Who asks this? ... Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmm . . ....
... I'll post the link to the whole article later -- he speaks on behalf of american academic/university music. ... It's a rhetorical device -- he means to say...
THIS IS THE QUOTE THAT MADE ME LAUGH THE LOUDEST! On the other hand, the university is the best place for musical exploration and collaboration. It is also the...
I could name many schools that are almost anti-complexity these days. Michigan, Yale, Princeton, Juilliard, Eastman, Yale . . . You pretty much get crap if...
Hey Chris, ... It turns out that is also the view of the person who sent me the article. (I had thought he sent it to me because he agreed with Miller.) ... I...
From: mclaren To: Practical microtonality group Subject: The source of those quotes you've been reading The source of this particular item can be found at: ...
From: mclaren To: Practical microtonality group Subject: Some comments on the previous article ... Beliefs typically derive from underlying assumptions -- what...
Brian, I think the thing that you are overlooking is that most of the serialists *were* space aliens. Once you realize this, most of the rest falls into place....
From: mclaren To: New practical microtonality group Subject: complexity, new music, and microtonality "Although our music is complex to the point that few ...
too bad they didn't come from the same place as Sun Ra! ... -- Kraig Grady North American Embassy of Anaphoria island http://www.anaphoria.com The Wandering...
... Kraig! Boy, you got that right. I should have been more clear. As far as I am personally aware, there are at least two species of space aliens. The evil...