TUNING digest 1561

>What is the relationship between this website
>and the Sonic Arts Network -
>http://www.demon.co.uk/sonicart/ ?
>Is this the same or a name-clash?
>
>==John ffitch

It's a name clash.
There is no relationship between the sites or the
organizations. Your reference is to an organization
in England, ours is in San Diego, California.

The Sonic Arts Gallery
(http://www.ixpres.com/interval/gallery.html)
has been in operation in San Diego since 1987,
owned by Jonathan and Elizabeth Glasier.

When Denny Genovese and I happened to move to
San Diego at the same time last month, we both
got involved in Jonathan's work at the Gallery,
and together we formed an organization that just
took over the name Jonathan had already been using
for the Gallery: the Sonic Arts Center for Microtonal
and Just-Intonation Music in Southern California.

The name was originally inspired by the idea that
musicians who wanted to create new sounds (and
tunings) by building their own instruments, were
also creating visual art in the design of their
instruments.

"Any resemblance to other persons living or dead
is purely coincidental".

- Joe Monzo
joe_monzo@hotmail.com
http://www.ixpres.com/interval/monzo/homepage.html

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> Well, now that I live on the west coast it's easy
> for me to agree with that. In fact, San Diego would
> be even better!

Frankly, I'm inclined to agree that San Diego would be a better venue.
I believe that there are more active Xenharmonicists there than LA,
although perhaps not by much. But perhaps more importantly, I think that
San Diego would be a somewhat less intimidating place to hang out in. It
has quite a bit less traffic gridlock, for one thing.

On the other hand, I'm just a Texan who has visited both places only a
few times, so I may not know what I'm talking about.

> Frankly, I'm inclined to agree that San Diego would be a better venue.
>I believe that there are more active Xenharmonicists there than LA,
>although perhaps not by much. But perhaps more importantly, I think that
>San Diego would be a somewhat less intimidating place to hang out in. It
>has quite a bit less traffic gridlock, for one thing.

My offer to look into the possibility of a conference here was inspired not
so much by a preference for this geographical location as opposed to San
Diego or San Francisco, both lovely cities, but for the possibility of
institutional support: meeting rooms, lecture halls with computers and a/v
equipment, concert halls, a secretary to do mailings and other conference
business, brochures, publicity, even (should we want to go that route) a
special dinner or something of that sort.

Some people may have well-grounded suspicions of the drawbacks of academia,
but these are some of the pros that a college site can provide. Of course
there are alternatives to this model, and I'm open to other people's
preferences. But if a conference of this sort in the LA area is still of
interest to enough people, I will be happy to continue pursuing the
possibility.

(By the way, my college is not actually in LA, but in Claremont, about 25
miles east of downtown.)

Bill

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