We're famous!

Thanks to Alex Ross, the music critic of the New Yorker Magazine, for
plugging our little day of honor. He blogged about it at:

http://www.therestisnoise.com/2006/04/odds_without_en.html

Taking a cue from the not so seriousness with which we all take
ourselves, he wrote:

"The results of Make Microtonal Music Day 2006 are available at Bumper
Music ( http://bumpermusic.blogspot.com/ ). The blog-borne festival
describes itself, not too seriously, as "Black History Month for
Microtonality." A few highlights: Yahya Abdal-Aziz's Bunga Seroja,
Jeff Harrington's Spirale d'Arco, and Gene Ward Smith's Dreyfus
(inspired by Chief Inspector Dreyfus's mad organ performance at the
climax of The Pink Panther Strikes Again). If you're hungry for more,
go to Smith's site ( http://66.98.148.43/~xenharmo/gene.html ) and
listen to Threnody for the Victims of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. O dem
composers."

Alex is one of the most popular music bloggers, with a Technorati rank
of: 3,883 (805 links from 320 sites). I emailed him the link, and the
rest is history...

Prent Rodgers

Prent,

I assume that we can now take a print-out of Alex's blog into a local Starbucks and receive a free Vente beverage of our choice, right? :) Anyhow, good call on hooking up with Alex, one of the finest writers in the blog-o-sphere (and in print, for that matter). Anyone who does a 3 page spread on Partch in the New Yorker is ok by me!

Cheers,
Jon

Jon,
They threw me out of the Tully's when I tried to claim my cup... But
it did give me an opportunity to tell one more person about microtonal
music.

What we need to do now is duplicate what my uncle John Rodgers did
back in the 1950's. He got together with his geologist colleagues and
named 1957 the "International Geophysical Year". They mobilized
scientists around the world to trek up mountains, visit the north and
south poles, measure everything, and report back. Sputnik was the 1957
Russian contribution, and we all know what that lead to. It was a
tremendous success, and they did the same thing every year thereafter
through 1962. Each year was an "International Geophysical Year". It
really jump started the field.

I say we declare next year *International Microtonal Year*. Get people
from all over the world to participate. Get some university to kick in
their good name. Get the National Bureau of Standards to declare that
all divisions of the octave are of equal value, including non-equal
and non-octave. Create five Working Groups and thirteen Technical
Panels and a free drink for all composers at every coffee house on the
planet. And more music!

Prent Rodgers

--- In MakeMicroMusic@yahoogroups.com, Jon Szanto <jszanto@...> wrote:
>
> Prent,
>
> I assume that we can now take a print-out of Alex's blog into a
local Starbucks and receive a free Vente beverage of our choice, right? :)
>
> Cheers,
> Jon
>