good baby, mad baby [tuning indoctrination]

I don't want to speak for Kraig Grady, since he generally seems eloquent
enough himself... but perhaps the issue of "good baby, mad baby" in the
Newsweek has less to do with the specific intervals involved, minor
second, perfect fifth, fourth, tritone, whatever, than the way this
entire presentation was delivered by Newsweek.

Especially in the sound examples... Here you have Vivaldi, and the
"smiling baby" :), smiling, ostensibly at one of the pillars of Western
Civilization, and then next, in the sound examples, something else...
non-Western, sounding like Cage prepared piano, maybe Partch, maybe even
Kraig himself. This was the music that the commentator called the
"irritant" to the baby. Mad baby, sad baby :( Poop.

Isn't this all a bit simplistic?? But what can we expect from our "mass
media." I guess the "upside" is that it was a topic that at least went
from Newsweek to the Tuning List!
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Joseph Pehrson