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Hi Everyone,

i just got back from a 4 hour visit to the emergency room.

I was a passenger in a dune buggy that rolled a bit.

My right ring finger was almost torn off the hand.

It's stitched up in a Franken kinda way, but i think it's going to be ok someday.

As a drummer, i was never freaked out about potential loss of ability. I figured that
maybe now, my hands would be at equal ability. I just realized that non-drummers won't
know what the hell i just said.

I'm in pain, and typing with my weak hand is tedious.

Be well all, and keep the music coming.

Jacky, i loved your sausage serenade.

gz

Crazies!
MOS works in any number of odd number scale tunings. For instance
look at the 5 tone scales form a 7 tone master set. Having worked in 31
the MOS are great. If one looks at 12 ET there are reasons that 5 and 7
tones MOS scales work best because you can transpose your melodic ideas
and the intervals will only change within a certain range, usually where
no motific interval will transgress the intervals of larger and smaller
neighbors. For instance if we take C E F G in a major scale which is
like ascending 2 steps, one step, one step, the two step interval will
always be larger than any of the one step intervals. etc. Now if we
applied the same type of transposition to a 6 , 8 , or 9 tone scales we
would come up with all types of abnormalities that make the motif much
harder to recognize. Anyways one has merely to try it out to realize
why 6 tones scales just never caught on. It seems when people make
scales they like them to be cyclical. Even with ETs, no one complains
that we are omitted all type of good scales by including all the steps.
like 31 without the last step is as a good scale. True but more is
gained by including it.
As for The Greek Aulos. Since no one has bothered to reconstruct
these instruments they really don't know what they are talking about.
Jim French being the only one has told me over and over again how well
her data holds up. He will play them over the phone if you wish. True
she was over Zealous about saying how far reaching these scales, but in
Bali we do have Subharmonic flutes of equally spaced Holes. We also have
flutes where the holes are three equally spaced holes an unequal gap
then 3 more equally spaces, deriving scales from two parts of the
subharmonic series. Without her pioneering work, we would be further in
the dark. Erv also have an extensive collection of subharmonic flutes
from South america as well as eastern Europe. They are truly all around
us. Also she mentions scales from the subharmonic series not stopping
at 13 but up into the 20's with no mention of any cap beyond which
subharmonic ratios are not to be used
-- Kraig Grady
North American Embassy of Anaphoria island
http://www.anaphoria.com

The Wandering Medicine Show
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Hi Everyone

Great to see this list playing again. Rick I really enjoyed the
Fairy Lullaby. Do you want to talk about the technical details of
working with the two singers. In my experience aits not very
difficult to sing "alt" tunings if there is a strong meldody line to
follow. On the other hand using a verifiable tuner like autotune
with microtunings is opening my eyes, especially where I can see
there are large cent (> 33 cents) errors that don't sound so bad and
smaller (<18 cents) which are ouch. I m not sure that I have
Autotune working exactly as it is supposed to so I'm not ready to
share the examples, but I will... It certainly is refining what I
hear.

Jacky a great piece. Love the texture and richness and tension. And
Alison I am enjoying your alien production aenormously.

George be kind to your finger and your Psyche. Glad nothing worse
happened but nonetheless it must have been a shock. When I get a bad
teat or sprain in my body I like to see a healer as well as a
traditional MD - the healer tends to get me feeling more comfortable
and less traumatized, while the MD has an obvious role that is also
important.

Mary

Mary said...

> Rick I really enjoyed the Fairy Lullaby.
> Do you want to talk about the technical details of
> working with the two singers.

Thanks. Glad you enjoyed it. Technically, there's nothing to tell, I
guess. I gave them each a CD with the accompaniment, which does have a
strong melodic line. They followed it and didn't notice anything out of the
ordinary. I'm sure that stuff farther from the usual would be tougher...

Rick