Re: Erlich's recommended post

>Repeating that essential idea expressed by Mr. Rosati, it is not going to
>make that much of a real difference if you re-tune a piece created under the
>existing harmonic (chords) western system. To me, the quantum leap is not to
>devise a thousand new exciting new scales and ways to tune. It is, instead,
>to develop new musical structures and logic to use even just a new one in a
>meaningful way (for human beings) that does not repeat the same basic
>implementation of the ideas of classic harmony (tonic - dominant -
>subdominant, tension, dissonance and so forth.) Unfortunately, I haven't
>heard thus far any "microtonal" music which isn't conceptually a
>modification of those classic patterns, or random combinations (that doesn't
>make me happy; but of course I am just starting to explore.)

Blackwood's 15-tone etude, track 7 on his CD...

http://www.cedillerecords.org/blackwood.html

>The basic point is, I don't consider that something that sounds new (with
>some added effects) is a new creation. It may or may not. A new scale is not
>enough. A scale is a tool, not an end by itself. The challenge is to make
>sense out of it.

Can this really be improved by writing about it? ...Doh!

>Maybe the process of progressive appreciation of eastern music by a
>westerner can give us an idea of what it can take to embrace a new
>paradigm...

I doubt it.

Carl