Sethares & Exomusicology

I was fortunate to receive the Exomusicology album from Bill some
weeks ago.

On the whole, the album concept & its execution is highly
imaginitive. The impossible shapes artwork is a lot of fun, and I
think the Klingon language "Rojqoq" may be the first Klingon song
ever written by an Earthling ;)

I also don't know anyone else as fond of 10-ET other than Gary
Morrison. I think you should promote this as "Metric Music", and see
if some international standards organizations will accept this as
the official international tuning standard. And perhaps 100 10-tone
instruments could form a HectOrchestra --and all vocal music in this
tuning would have to be in Esperanto of course, at least here on
Earth ;) And the metric instrumentalists of course would have to
play on instruments producing 10-ET 'sethartic' partials.

(The rest of us, especially from this list, might have to form anti-
metric music leagues, should this catch on too well ;)

Your timbral philosophy also has resonance with my experience. For
example, my Mom, who loves common practice classical music & detests
most 20th+ century classical music, had a hard time hearing me
practice Prokofiev's 5th piano sonata ('radical' Prokofiev for the
uninitiated, not so mild as "Peter and the Wolf"), while even
enjoying choral music with the same harmonies.

Especially lovely was "Over Venus" with its E. Indian sitar-ish
expressive melody--very moving.

For your next exomusicological release, you might have fun
experimenting with free vocal synthesizers like Flinger
http://cslu.cse.ogi.edu/tts/flinger/fldoc.html

or MBrola
http://tcts.fpms.ac.be/synthesis/mbrola.html

Yours from a small corner of planet Earth, in the early 21st century,
Harold