RE: misc.

"no one would use a C# and a Db in the same piece."

Perhaps not on a keyboard, but with a recorder or some other instrument
they might. I believe I noticed this in the Handel recorder sonata in F
major. However, I do not have it handy. Certainly Jon Catler uses this
technique when he writes for bassoon, allowing me to get notes that are
not found on the guitar.

Incidentally, I am doing a polymicrotonal improv with English hornist and
microtonalist Emanuelle Somer from Belgium at the Knitting Factory on
Thurs. April 3 at 7 pm in N.Y. We had great success earlier this year
playing for a composer's organization. Essentially, we work very hard
together to find out what the other can do and we work out a myriad of
pitch, timbre, and structural ideas. When it's time to perform? well
we're 1 for 1.

Johnny Reinhard
Director
American Festival of Microtonal Music
318 East 70th Street, Suite 5FW
New York, New York 10021 USA
(212)517-3550/fax (212) 517-5495
reinhard@idt.net
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