What is a Dream?

Hi All,

Here's the last of my decade old cassette recordings, a folkish
piece titled "What is a Dream?"

/makemicromusic/files/sethares/What_Is_A_Dream.mp3

Here's what I wrote about it in 1992:

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Each dream has a characteristic emotion, but when you try to
describe it to someone, it comes out as a mass of details.
Invariably, the substance, the true feeling of the dream
becomes lost. It is not the events themselves, but the
pattern that the events form. It is not the actions,
but the way in which the actions mesh together.
It is not the places, but the way in which the places relate.
The song is an answer to its title.

The song is played and sung in the "aeolic" scale, which uses
the justly tempered pitches

1/1 9/8 32/27 4/3 3/2 128/81 16/9 2/1.

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Bill Sethares

Jeff wrote:

> I really am liking these microtonal folk songs you've
> done. Really puts a whole different groove on
> alternative tunings to hear them in this context.

Thanks.

> Did you have special frets on that guitar you're playing
> in the aeolian scale?

I was using a MIDI guitar controller (a Beetle Quantar,
from a now defunct company of the same name),
so what youre actually hearing is a synth (an Ensoniq EPS
in this case, which has well implemented tuning tables).

Not exactly a campfire setup... maybe its best described
as a virtual campfire...

Bill S