Re: [MMM] Re: happy MMM month

daniel_anthony_stearns wrote:

>hey jacob, this is great. I especially like #11, and hey, #12's >intentions can be easily ,well more easily, done if you were to plot >massive, clandestine microtwisting of the tuning pegs on music store' >guitars. >

Why wait for a special occasion? I've retuned walls of acoustic guitars at stores.

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

das,

{you wrote...}
>wishing i lived in Texas .

Yikes! Be careful what you wish for, my friend.

Cheers,
Jon

actually our biorhythms are 90 min so we should have a 16 hour day,
Like they do in Anaphoria.

daniel_anthony_stearns wrote:
>
> hey jacob, this is great. I especially like #11, and hey, #12's
> intentions can be easily ,well more easily, done if you were to plot
> massive, clandestine microtwisting of the tuning pegs on music store'
> guitars. BTW, i love your 31tone camp ,perfect!wishing i lived in
> Texas .
>
> --- In MakeMicroMusic@yahoogroups.com > <mailto:MakeMicroMusic%40yahoogroups.com>, "Jacob" <jbarton@...> wrote:
> >
> > 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/ > <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/ > <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/ > <http://www.microfest.org/>>
> > * 17 tone Piano Project Phase Three at Rice University, Houston,
> > Texas, May 7th.
> <http://xenharmonic.wikispaces.com/SeventeenTPPPhaseThree > <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 > <http://www.owlnet.rice.edu/%7Ejbarton/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
> >
>
> -- Kraig Grady
North American Embassy of Anaphoria Island <http://anaphoria.com/index.html>
The Wandering Medicine Show
KXLU <http://www.kxlu.com/main/index.asp> 88.9 FM Wed 8-9 pm Los Angeles

daniel_anthony_stearns wrote:
> hey jacob, this is great. I especially like #11, and hey, #12's > intentions can be easily ,well more easily, done if you were to plot > massive, clandestine microtwisting of the tuning pegs on music store' > guitars. BTW, i love your 31tone camp ,perfect!wishing i lived in > Texas .

Well, I found a music shop today, but I ended up putting one of the guitars *into* 12-equal. Well, as far as I could, and I left the G string a bit flat because I was worried it would break. In my defence:

- My ear isn't very good so it was probably microtonal enough

- By AFMM standards, 12-equal is microtonal as long as you intend it.

微音程月快乐!

Graham