Part of music is knowing when to intone and when to be silent. An understanding of the use of white space and also negative foregrounds is just as important in...
Hi Everybody, I finally updated my website-- there's pictures up now of most of my instruments, including the 10 stringed beast, the alumitar. Still in search...
Hi all, I've just put the finishing touches on my second album release for this year. The name of the new album is "Zhxrghaenian Night Melodies", or "ZRM". It...
At MacWorld today, it has been announced that all Macs will now come with a free audio editor/midi sequencer/plugin host, and 50 free synthesizer synthesizer...
Ok, porn is so astoundingly off-topic for this group that I am going to have to immediately and without recourse to appeal, permanently ban this poster. Sorry...
I was just reading some old posts. Why, you don't ask? To tell you the truth, it's 4:30 a.m. and I'm procrastinating. Being an inescapably human being who...
Hi Jacob, ... I do agree that, even though talk is fun and talk is cheap, when it comes down to it, only the music speaks and thus writing music, performing...
To add to what Jeff Scott said, Jacob, here's what you need to do: [1] Support microtonal composers and microtonal music by buying their CDs and listening to...
... There's a lot of microtonal music out there. Some of it is available for free on the web. This does not mean it should be spat upon by the pompous and...
Jeff. Yes. Silence here could hint that everyone's off working xenharmonic wonders, or it could imply that people weren't going to do anything but talk anyway...
www.shakuhachi.com Monty makes amazing instruments, and seems to have all the Bart Hopkin books in stock, if you want a replacement. ... Partch took an adult...
Ivor Darreg stands as a shining example of how to create hand-built instruments on a shoestring, and produce vividly memorable microtonal music. Jeff Scott...
Jacob asked a question that centered around why the ATL has fallen silent. As someone who was a member of the ATL back in 1993 until 1997, when it degenerated...
Hi Pete, ... Wonderful advice. Real, live interaction with others is the best way to quickly learn and establish lifelong and productive relationships. On the...
... I propose an experiment--why don't you provide either facts or logic or (best of all) both, and see how I respond? ... Good. Buhbye. ... None that make any...
[I was drawn to this thread by someone who noted I've been... 'mentioned' in the recent postings. Jeff, I check Crazy every so often even when it hasn't been...
... What can I say? It is pretty difficult, even with the past history that Brian and I share, to view this in print and really not be quite disturbed by it. ...
Dante Rosati has chimed in. Bear in mind that Dante Rosati has told the lie that the superb microtonal composer Jacky Ligon is a "slow brain" because Jacky...
Hello. I don't know, but I'm guessing, that the person posting as "xenharmonic" is Brian McLaren. (He'll correct me if I'm wrong.) At least, the person posting...
... single ... I've done that sometimes, and sometimes regretted it and sometimes not. I agree--in this day and age, you ought to offer a downloadable sample. ...
... Thanks, Gene. I never thought of looking there. I picked up the few samples files. They're only short examples. If that's all there is, oh well......
When faced with a question, what does a reasonable person do? Does a reasonable person head off on a tangent and spend the rest of hi/r life pursuing whatever...
I am not sure if this is really an answer to your thoughts. I just had the spontaneous feeling that the personal approaches of a person to move into...
GENE "WOOLLY-HEADED NUMEROLOGY" SMITH DEBUNKED - Part 1 Throwing Sand In the Gears of the Superstition Machine ... "Superstition is ignorance presented under...
Rick, e-mail me at robothamster AT hotmail DOT com with your snail mail address and I'll send you a video CD with an audiovisual catalog of more than 50 CDs...