Brian McLaren and John deLaubenfels' program

Putting aside the fact that Brian had already decided that he knows
the course of future events and that, therein, John is going to act
as childishly as Brian would to stack the deck against his "opponent"
(which of course he wouldn't), Brian has made a complete fool of
himself by demonstrating that

1) He doesn't know the difference between strict JI (in which comma
shifts can be a problem) and adaptive JI (in which they're ironed
out);
2) He doesn't know the difference betweeen adaptive JI and adaptive
tuning;
3) He has no idea what John's program does or how it works.

Clearly he has read about 0.01% of what we've written on the subject,
and listened to about 0.01% of the program's results so far. Yet he
manages to come up with a thousand lines of garbage about it and
about a completely fantastical scenario of events which is in a
strange and illogical combination of imperative, future, and past
tenses.

All this rambling reminds me very strongly of transcriptions of
mentally ill individuals that I read somewhere . . . fascinating, but
very disturbing . . . especially in the present case where he's
undermining the very innovative and personally very satisfying work
that someone has done with the feedback of a community of others.

> From: Paul Erlich <paul@...>
> To: <metatuning@yahoogroups.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, July 25, 2001 7:51 PM
> Subject: [metatuning] Brian McLaren and John deLaubenfels' program
>
>
> ... Brian has made a complete fool of himself by demonstrating that
>
> 1) He doesn't know the difference between strict JI (in which comma
> shifts can be a problem) and adaptive JI (in which they're ironed
> out);
> 2) He doesn't know the difference betweeen adaptive JI and adaptive
> tuning;
> 3) He has no idea what John's program does or how it works.
>
> Clearly he has read about 0.01% of what we've written on the subject,
> and listened to about 0.01% of the program's results so far. Yet he
> manages to come up with a thousand lines of garbage about it and
> about a completely fantastical scenario of events which is in a
> strange and illogical combination of imperative, future, and past
> tenses.

I agree with all of this.

-monz
http://www.monz.org
"All roads lead to n^0"

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