Erv Wilson

Could someone tell me about Erv Wilson's past and recent researches.
Waren Burt told me about some ways to tune guitars to achieve different
equal temperaments.
I'd like to make something on him for microMegas #3. Does he have an e-mail?
Does someone know how to reach him?
Thanks,
didier aschour

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> OK...so the tuning is marvelous, in tune, and all that...now, write
>some music that is challenging, profound, and interesting on deep levels.
>I, at this stage of my career, am not impressed by basic chordal
>structures that sound like a beginning musician. The craft of composition
>is deep and challenging, and is a subject that many folks have not done a
>whole lot with. Simplicity is fine, but simple music does not necessarily
>mean cliched or unimaginative. Again, that is my main complaint about a
>lot of "just" music...it sounds like the composer is more fascinated with
>the purity of the tuning, rather than the final result of the
>composition.

Thank you, Neil!

I've seen this in a lot of xenharmonic music as well. I have also seen,
in my own writing as well as some others, the opposite when it comes to
simplicity: A composition that's made complex by carefully preplanned
structuring or formal ideas that seem clever on paper, but don't prove to
be even audible (or just simply "don't work") when performed into real
music.

I think that the most important task to start with in xenharmonic
composition is to figure out what general sorts of music a given tuning is
most appropriate for, and then write to that idiom. If you don't do that,
then your audience will face two questions:
1. Why doesn't this music sound right?
2. What was the point in using an unusual tuning here?
If you match the tuning to the style, both of those problems are
automatically solved.

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