tell me about yourself

In light of the coming MMM Day, and knowing that words are sometimes
as important as music, I extend this invitation to share shreds of
your autobiography, as you see fit, that it may shed light on others'
journeys. This is inspired by a recent newbie post I noticed, and by
that one John Starrett page where everyone lists their gear.

http://xenharmonic.wikispaces.com/ProgressReport

Make a page and link to it here, wherein you give your answer to any
of these questions:

* What was your path to discovering alternate tunings?
* What are your current/past/future particular interests?
* What instruments or means have you had/do you have now/do you want
for the making of microtonal music?
* What instruments or means have you successfully used in the making
of microtonal music? Recommendations?
* Any good microtonal anecdotes?

Name your page after yourself, or whatever you'd like yourself to be
called. When you have new answers, update the page!

Rationale:

1. Sharing stories builds community!
2. People stumble upon microtones in all sorts of different ways,
coming in at all sorts of different angles. If we are interested in an
increased awareness of microtonal music, we would do well to study
patterns in our own 'ah-ha!' moments.
3. Once deciding to go microtonal, many composers make early
crucial decisions (or assumptions!), about which tuning and which
instruments/software to concentrate on, and these sometimes end up
affecting their entire life of work!
4. Collectively we have a lot more experience, and I want to see
the cap of the iceberg, so to speak

Of particular relevance to MMM Day are the questions -What factors
affect the likelihood of a microtonal-paradigm-shift in an individual?
That "ah-ha" moment where you fall down the rabbit hole. And: -What is
your preferred method of MMMing and why?

I do intend to ask these questions to non-list members, so let me know
if you have connections to any notable reclusive micro-hermits.

Jacob,

{you wrote...}
>In light of the coming MMM Day...

1. When is MMM Day 2007?
2. What, if any (gad, I hope not), are the restrictions?

Cheers,
Jon

--- In MakeMicroMusic@yahoogroups.com, Jon Szanto <jszanto@...> wrote:
>
> Jacob,
>
> {you wrote...}
> >In light of the coming MMM Day...
>
> 1. When is MMM Day 2007?
> 2. What, if any (gad, I hope not), are the restrictions?
>
> Cheers,
> Jon
>
I'm not sure how we picked the last day. Here's what I cited from last
year's commemoration:

The idea was hatched on the Making Microtonal Music Yahoo Groups mailing
list, initially by Jacob Barton and others. On March 16, Jacob
wrote:Hullabaloo. I'm talking about making some sort of hullabaloo, yes.
An international occurrence. Everybody drop what they're doing. Well, if
you were holding a fourteen-tone crummhorn then you can keep holding it.

And just for a second. Just a second. Make some music
or...something. That happens to be microtonal. In any way possible. In
the best possible sense. In any way that you know how and can. And an
outreach aspect to it, too.

Get a friend to listen. Get his or her hands wet in sticky tuning
goo, for a moment. Fool a stalwart 12tet-thumper into hearing an
alternative.

This being some kind of decentralized rhizome-type internet
community, there's no need for physical exact temporal simultaneity. We
would need to have some sort of shared experience, say, by many folks
far and near uploading sound files (maybe so they can be streamed for
dialuppers), perhaps burn some CDs and send them to people without
warning. Yes, this is product over process, and quantity and spectacle
over quality or experience. But hey, give it a shot.

I vote for April 7, 2007.

Prent Rodgers

[Non-text portions of this message have been removed]

I like April 7, since I'm playing a show that day :o)

> --- In MakeMicroMusic@yahoogroups.com, Jon Szanto <jszanto@...> wrote:
>>
>> Jacob,
>>
>> {you wrote...}
>> >In light of the coming MMM Day...
>>
>> 1. When is MMM Day 2007?
>> 2. What, if any (gad, I hope not), are the restrictions?
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Jon
>>
> I'm not sure how we picked the last day. Here's what I cited from last
> year's commemoration:
>
> The idea was hatched on the Making Microtonal Music Yahoo Groups mailing
> list, initially by Jacob Barton and others. On March 16, Jacob
> wrote:Hullabaloo. I'm talking about making some sort of hullabaloo, yes.
> An international occurrence. Everybody drop what they're doing. Well, if
> you were holding a fourteen-tone crummhorn then you can keep holding it.
>
> And just for a second. Just a second. Make some music
> or...something. That happens to be microtonal. In any way possible. In
> the best possible sense. In any way that you know how and can. And an
> outreach aspect to it, too.
>
> Get a friend to listen. Get his or her hands wet in sticky tuning
> goo, for a moment. Fool a stalwart 12tet-thumper into hearing an
> alternative.
>
> This being some kind of decentralized rhizome-type internet
> community, there's no need for physical exact temporal simultaneity. We
> would need to have some sort of shared experience, say, by many folks
> far and near uploading sound files (maybe so they can be streamed for
> dialuppers), perhaps burn some CDs and send them to people without
> warning. Yes, this is product over process, and quantity and spectacle
> over quality or experience. But hey, give it a shot.
>
> I vote for April 7, 2007.
>
>
> Prent Rodgers
>
>
>
> [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
>
>

--
http://DoctorOakroot.com - Rough-edged songs on homemade GIT-tars.

Wouldn't just be easier to check out my web site and my space
and if you have any other questions I'll work on a faq?

--
* David Beardsley
* microtonal guitar
* http://biink.com/db

I first got into microtones at CalArts, while studying csound with Tom
Erbe and Indonesian composition.

I got into doing microtonal stuff with csound, and have done a lot of
stuff with that and also zynaddsubfx under linux.

However I've been getting back into acoustic music and currently I'm
working on some compositions for fretless guitar, as well as learning
to play microtones on the clarinet (which requires a lot of
wrangling), as well as trombone.

--- In MakeMicroMusic@yahoogroups.com, "Jacob" <jbarton@...> wrote:
>
> In light of the coming MMM Day, and knowing that words are sometimes
> as important as music, I extend this invitation to share shreds of
> your autobiography, as you see fit, that it may shed light on others'
> journeys. This is inspired by a recent newbie post I noticed, and by
> that one John Starrett page where everyone lists their gear.
>
> http://xenharmonic.wikispaces.com/ProgressReport
>
> Make a page and link to it here, wherein you give your answer to any
> of these questions:
>
> * What was your path to discovering alternate tunings?
> * What are your current/past/future particular interests?
> * What instruments or means have you had/do you have now/do you want
> for the making of microtonal music?
> * What instruments or means have you successfully used in the making
> of microtonal music? Recommendations?
> * Any good microtonal anecdotes?
>
> Name your page after yourself, or whatever you'd like yourself to be
> called. When you have new answers, update the page!
>
> Rationale:
>
> 1. Sharing stories builds community!
> 2. People stumble upon microtones in all sorts of different ways,
> coming in at all sorts of different angles. If we are interested in an
> increased awareness of microtonal music, we would do well to study
> patterns in our own 'ah-ha!' moments.
> 3. Once deciding to go microtonal, many composers make early
> crucial decisions (or assumptions!), about which tuning and which
> instruments/software to concentrate on, and these sometimes end up
> affecting their entire life of work!
> 4. Collectively we have a lot more experience, and I want to see
> the cap of the iceberg, so to speak
>
>
> Of particular relevance to MMM Day are the questions -What factors
> affect the likelihood of a microtonal-paradigm-shift in an individual?
> That "ah-ha" moment where you fall down the rabbit hole. And: -What is
> your preferred method of MMMing and why?
>
> I do intend to ask these questions to non-list members, so let me know
> if you have connections to any notable reclusive micro-hermits.
>