Re: [MMM] Re: Four Quarters

> --- In MakeMicroMusic@y..., "X. J. Scott" <xjscott@e...>
> wrote:
>> Funny stuff here! What a crackup this piece is.
>> Is this the first we've heard of your work?
>
> Hi Jeff-

> Are you using "royal We"? :)

Hey Kris,

No; just meant 'first you've posted publically'.

> Actually I did post a couple of
> sound files sometime last fall.

Right, that's why I was asking; I wanted to check if
I'd missed anything, which it seem I did. There were
a few times in the fall that I wasn't keeping up with
the lists due to various things that were happening.

> I could post em again soon if you missed them -- let me know.

Yes please -- maybe upload them to Jon's microtonal.org
server? I keep meaning to try it too but then I forget
at the last minute when I get into my routine of
fumbling with yahoo/geo.

> One was a silly little
> guitar thing in 11ET. The other was a clip from a group
> improvisational piece performed in Dec 2000.

Pretty sure I missed those and they do sound
interesting.

> The reactions to "Four Quarters" are amusing. I hadn't
> really thought about it, but I suppose it is kinda warped. I
> started just playing little patterns wherever there was a
> 36/35 quarter-tone on my JI fretboard

Yeegs!

> and (sort of) worked
> out a sketch around it. Listening back to it I realize that
> hammering on those small intervals (rather than picking each
> note) just gives it a wavering, bending sound rather than
> clear distinct notes. But I guess that's ok.

It sounded pretty wacked out! (a good thing)

>> Keep it coming; would love to hear some recent works too if
>> at all possible.

> The 11ET thing was the most recent thing to wind up on tape.
> I just recently got the guitars out again after having to
> store them away for a few weeks... long story. I've been
> noodling a little bit but not "working" on anything. I could
> just let the tape run while improvising out of the blue, but
> that's not necessarily what I like to share in public.

I think we all have that issue & I don't know the
answer. I usually listen to a piece for a couple days
to make sure it's not totally boring and that there is
some point to it. Some times something will sound
really cool right after I put it together and a day or
two later I wonder what I could have seen in what now
appears to be aimless doodling or simple melodies atop
homogenous block chords. For me I think the solution is
to shame myself into putting together more thought-out
pieces.

> Generally the more recent it is, the more clumsy it will
> be...

> I'm also tempted to put up a couple of pre-microtonal items--
> possibly in the metatuning folder?-- just for fun. Actually
> there's enough sliding around between notes to possibly
> justify a microtonal label.

Well, I wouldn't mind hearing a bit of your older
stuff. But hope some new stuff is coming too if you can
work it out there.

- Jeff