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In case you didn't notice, May 2007 is international make microtonal
music month. So you'd better get started already. I have a
brainstorm at <xenharmonic.wikispaces.com/MMMMonth07>:

Microtonal concerts in May 2007

* NYC's American Festival of Microtonal Music, under the direction
of Johnny Reinhard, presents 3 New York Concerts at the Bowery Poetry
Club, located at 308 Bowery at Bleeker Street. The series begins on
April 29, continues on May 2, and concludes on May 8. All three
concerts start at 10 PM. General admission is $10 at the door.
Internationally recognized bass trombonist Dave Taylor is the AFMM's
featured performing artist this year. http://www.afmm.org/
* MICROTONAL FAYRE, at York University, UK, is a day of concerts,
presentations, panel discussions on May 2. It is free. I guess it's
over by now. <http://music.york.ac.uk/conferences/microtonal/>
* MICROFEST (the west coast manifestation) has four of its
concerts in May: Gamelan & Guitars; James Tenney with Strings;
Anaphorian Shadow Play: The Follies of Dr. Placebo; and Parch "On the
Road." Various locations in LA area; <http://www.microfest.org/>
* 17 tone Piano Project Phase Three at Rice University, Houston,
Texas, May 7th. <http://xenharmonic.wikispaces.com/SeventeenTPPPhaseThree>
* (another completely self-promotory event in Houston) 31 tone
singin' camp May 8-18 <http://www.owlnet.rice.edu/~jbarton/31tsc.pdf>

Suggested Microtonal-awareness-promoting activities for May 2007
a brainstorm, admittedly western-biased -- augment as you see fit.

1. Make a T-shirt with the anti-12th-root-of-two logo or a logo of
your own invention. Wear it daily.
2. For your friends with May birthdays, give a slide whistle, or an
udderbot or balloon flute you made yourself, or...?
3. Call into your local or not-so-local freeform radio station and
request Neil Haverstick and Jon Catler and Warren Burt and Astroid
Power-Up! and Ellen Fullman and...?
4. Blast some Ben Johnston or Tony Conrad or La Monte Young from
the subwoofers of your pimped-out auto as you ride through the suburbs.
5. Engage yourself in an EtudeProject: bend your ears further,
learn 31-tone solfege, etc.
6. Make your one-of-a-kind or unusual microtonal instrument
available for the learning and experimentation and noodling of
lay-musicians for a day, or a weekend, or the whole month.
7. Make a pilgrimage en masse to the nearest known one-of-a-kind or
unusual microtonal instrument and demand (or ask nicely) that it be
made available for public use for a day, or a weekend, or the whole month.
8. Climb Mt. Meru. Climb your nearest scale tree. Climb a ladder
with more than twelve rungs and make a fuss about it.
9. Plan a flash mob of microtonalized recorders (put tape over the
holes a la Reinhard) to attack the nearest establishment that blares
12-equal muzak the most annoyingly.
10. Record an album of microtonal easy listening and smuggle it into
a record store.
11. Replace your (and others') clock faces with non-12 ones. Attempt
to use a 26-hour day. (That's a tricky one to shake, believe me!)
12. Go into your local piano store and...no, that wouldn't be nice.
Or terribly easy to do clandestinely.
13. That's all I got but I really couldn't stop at number 12!

More to come. Fight boredom.

-Jacob

happy MMM month

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