midwest microfest radio spot

AKJ's radio spot with Chicago public radio is about 3/4 of the way through this mp3.
http://audio.wbez.org/848/2007/10/848_20071019.mp3

Aaron mentions Schoenberg might have gone microtonal if someone had turned him on to it. Here are the actual facts on that:
http://www.h-pi.com/eop-schoenberg.html

Yours,
Aaron Hunt
H-Pi Instruments

--- In MakeMicroMusic@yahoogroups.com, Aaron Andrew Hunt <aahunt@...>
wrote:
>
> AKJ's radio spot with Chicago public radio is about 3/4 of the way
> through this mp3.
> http://audio.wbez.org/848/2007/10/848_20071019.mp3
>
> Aaron mentions Schoenberg might have gone microtonal if someone had
> turned him on to it. Here are the actual facts on that:
> http://www.h-pi.com/eop-schoenberg.html

Thanks, I remember reading this on your site a while ago...one can
still fantasize that Schoenberg might not have been so oddly
conservative (a paradox, since the desire to give more mileage to
tonality through microtones is a sort of 'conservative' position)

Funny how 19 or 31 or even 17 weren't on his radar, or 11 or 13 for
that kind of serialism that escapes cliche that he so theoretically
strove for. The irony of course is that there is no more cliched and
homogeneous sounding way of writing than typical 12-tone academic
serialism. He clearly was thinking along the lines of the 12-eq
semitone or whole tone being divided: 18- 24- and 36-, etc.

I like your last statement in commentary:
"If the cultural acceptance of greater numbers of pitches depends upon
historical necessity, then microtonality is an idea whose time has
clearly arrived."

BTW, Chris and I appreciate you coming up from Charleston to see the
show! More later when I'm not so exhausted!....

-A.