Systematization Again

>System-building in music certainly goes a long way
>towards satisfying one's intellectual proclivities

Sure, but I wouldn't limit that to strictly intellectual impressions.
In short, its harder to project any impression, be it intellectual,
emotional, or whatever, to an audience using an inconsistent language of
expression.

If you find, not just a tuning, but also a scale in that tuning, that
does a "pretty good" job of expressing the general sort of sensation you
want to portray to your audience, then if you build melodies and harmonies
largely from that scale, that sensation will get through to your audience
easily.

If on the other hand (to use a traditional-music example), you change
meter, tonal center, and mode in every measure, it's very difficult for
your audience to latch onto any clear expression.

You certainly don't want to do too much of either of course; being too
consistent can be boring, and being too chaotic can be confusing.

> From: Jesse Bagshaw Gay
> To: tuning@eartha.mills.edu



> I just hear that Terry Riley will be giving a series of North Indian Raga

> workshops in Santa Cruz, California. I think they are @ UCSC. I think
> they are also free. I do not know if they are public, or what, but if
> they are, I highly recommend going.

Has anyone heard more on this ? I'm planning to be in the Los Angeles area between May 20th
and 22nd. If it was possible to be there I would.