new updates to Juxtaposition Ezine

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There's some new reviews of :

American Festival of Microtonal Music MicroMay '97:

"Spice" May 16, 1997
"Jewel" May 21, 1997
"Ear Garden" May 22, 1997
"Spirit" May 23, 1997

Invite the Spirit: Charles K. Noyes, Sang-won Park and Jim O'Rourke
Knitting Factory, May 2, 1997

A link to Corpreal Meadows for our review of NewBand performs
Harry Partch' Oedipus at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, April 24, 1997

And some recent reviews:

ambient gong master Thomas K�ner: a listener's guide
new music Valarie Morris: Transformations
Louis Goldstein: John Cage's Sonatas and Interludes, Dream
space rocker Tales: Pictures of Asia
new music/ambient: Deep Listening Band & the Long String Instrument Suspended
Music
Visitation #6: David Cunningham, Cluster, Charlie Haden and Pat Metheny
Just Intonation guitarist Rod Poole The Death Adder


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Gary:

The problem is that we count passing time in two ways. One way is for
birthdays - we count years completed as discreet units (except as children
when we enthusiastically noted the half year completed as well). The other
way of counting applies to calendars. Days, months, and years are
identified in terms of periods of time, and any moment within each of these
periods recieves that identification. By your birthday-style counting,
today would be 31 May 1996 (as I write it is 1 June 1997) because these are
the last full day, month, and year completed. Would you even go further and
call this the first millenium - because we have not yet completed the
second? Your interval-counting example is a good one. The common pitch class
notation with numbers does use 0, however, as the value for unisons, so
that intervals in the system can be added without subtracting 1. 0 in this
case is exactly like that moment when years 1 BC and AD met - it has no
magnitude. The value 0 is not always meaningful for musical purposes, however.
Consider a harmonic series over the fundamental n. The series goes: (1n,
2n, 3n ...). In terms of frequency, 0n (Zero n) is undefined.
Unfortunately, one notation frequently used by practicing musicians
considers 2n to be the ''first flageolet'' - in effect, your birthday
notation - which leads to real confusion in reading scores where the actual
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>Would you even go further and
>call this the first millenium - because we have not yet completed the
>second?

There's no real reason why the labeling of a century (or whatever) must
match its number in sequence. It's perfectly fine, for example, to call
the 20th century the one all of whose years begin with 19. Or for that
matter to call the first year "the year of the dog", or the year 82b
hexadecimal.




>Your interval-counting example is a good one.

Thanks.




>The value 0 is not always meaningful for musical purposes, however.
>Consider a harmonic series over the fundamental n. The series goes: (1n,
>2n, 3n ...).

Those are multiplicative factors rather than additive displacements like
intervals are nominally used for. So yes, in that multiplicative context,
0 doesn't make much sense.

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