Re: going offline, etc.

Hi Jon

Just a few thoughts:

I think there's no reason to be concerned because
someone decides its a good time to up and
take a break from the e-world. Seems very healthy
thing to do. People come and go, and make journeys
and discover things and go to wild places or
not so wild places. Sometimes they meet again
and sometimes perhaps not, that's the way of things.

No idea where Dan is off to. Perhaps he may
tell us something about it when he comes back.
Sometimes when you set off on a journey you
don't want to endlessly discuss it or work
out an itinery in advance (whether actual or
in terms of general planning).

Also if you want the journey to be
somewhat open you don't say a return date
do you.

I'll be surprised if I never go off on
some journey or whatever myself too at
some point, whether travelling, or otherwise,
something that doesn't involve the e-domain
Not in the immediate future perhaps (not for long anyway)
but at some point or other I'd say it is rather
likely (commitments permitting).

Robert

--- In metatuning@y..., "Robert Walker" <robertwalker@n...> wrote:

OK, I made it here... a few comments before I got to bed... I'm
surprised that you guys are so out of your gourds as to see that my
comments about the tuning scene are so 'trouble-making'. Do you guys
even read the tuning list?

OK, imagine someone who doesn't even know what tuning is reading
these arguments... here's what it's like... it's like a bunch of
nerds talking about who would win if Spiderman were to fight
Superman.

It's like top 10 list arguments.

It's basically a masculine kind of turf pissing. And the turf? Who
cares? The turf is the supremacy of ET versus Irrational? JT vs
31ET? No, actually its so much more convoluted that I can't even
being to mock it! Hahaha...

And yes, as someone pointed out this is the same type of ad hominem
attack I've been 'deploying' on rec.music.compose, contemporary,
classical whatever because as our scene dies - we become increasingly
combative and pathetic. We become intellectualized. We fetishize
technique and we produce less and less music.

So - nobody wants to listen to our music? I wonder why.

Maybe we should spend more time polishing our pieces and less time
arguing about details that will inevitably become obsolete, pointless
and absurd. Do you guys remember the arguments in the 70's about
serial music vs tonal music? This is today's version of that
idiocy.

:)

Unfortunately, I can't be that active anymore on these groups - and I
haven't been that active on Usenet since my job became so all-
consuming that I couldn't goof off at work to post. I spend most of
my personal online time curating netnewmusic. I think that curation
right now is much more important than posting on newsgroups.
Somebody has to help filter all these 1000's of online pieces. Some
really good composer, like Dan Stearns could come along and change
everything.

I lurk on weekends. I appreciate the invitation to join the
discussion and I wish everyone a beautiful evening and a musical
Sunday.

Please check out my music if you get a chance. It's all over the
map. :P

jeff harrington
http://parnasse.com/jeff.htm - new music
http://netnewmusic.net - new music portal