the real geographic compass (wasRe: The Political Compass)

In a message dated 2004:01:09 10:24:50 AM, le un et singular monz writes:

>and there are a whole bunch of us microtonalists down here
>in San Diego (just a bit further from you than Chalmers)
>... altho i'm the only one on the internet.

Chalmers, being one my chief online music gurus, is sorta online:
email mainly (likewise Warren Burt...and he has a website)

> the rest of them seem to be very wary of computers, and prefer
>to build their own physical instruments a la Partch.

Or a la Darreg. Lotta synthDIYers & synthpunks & circuitbenders down
there...

My pet theory it's the effect of the ocean, sun & surfer-hippy subculture
;) & in good opposition to LA/Hollywood music... like the
pre-Berlin/drug-rehab David Bowie joke goes: What's the diff 'tween LA and yogurt? At least
yogurt has culture.

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Hanuman Zhang, musical mad scientist

"... simple, chaotic, anarchic and menacing.... This is what people of today
have lost and need most - the ability to experience permanent bodily and
mental ecstasy, to be a receiving station for messages howling by on the ether from
other worlds and nonhuman entities, those peculiar short-wave messages which
come in static-free in the secret pleasure center in the brain." - Slava Ranko
(Donald L. Philippi)

The German word for "noise" _Geräusch_ is derived from _rauschen_ "the
sound of the wind," related to _Rausch_ "ecstasy, intoxication" hinting at some
of the possible aesthetic, bodily effects of noise in music. In Japanese
Romaji: _uchu_ = "universe"... _uchoten_ = "ecstasty," "rapture"..._uchujin_ =
[space] alien!