Re: Carrillo and 96-tet

I am sorry to report that I just discovered that Patricia Smith, the musician and scholar who translated Sonido 13 into English and transcribed Tepepan (IIRC) from Carrillo's to traditional notation (with microtonal accidentals) died last Summer in Florida.

I worked with her in the late 60's on tuning theory at UCSD. She became interested in Carrillo's music and became a close friend of Carrillo's daughter Lolita.

While at a biochemistry meeting in Mexico City in the 1980's, I visited the Carrillo home in San Angel, D.F., where saw and noodled on the pianos, and obtained some of Carrillo's writings.

Interestingly, I noticed that there was a copy of Novaro's Sistema Natural de la Musica in Carrillo's bookshelf. Lolita said that he had interviewed her father, but not credited him in the book. I had not heard about the litigation, but Pat Smith said that there was a lot of polemic in Sonido Trece, most of which she decided to omit in her translation.

--John