current 'microtonal' issue of New Music Box ezine

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I'd like to thank Frank Oteri for including an article
by me in the latest edition of his 'New Music Box' E-zine:

http://www.newmusicbox.org/hymn/sep00/index_monzo.html

This issue of 'New Music Box' is dedicated to microtonality.

It was nice of Frank to put my picture on the 'cover'
(along with Johnny Reinhard, Joe Maneri, Lois V Vierk,
Kyle Gann, and John Eaton):

http://www.newmusicbox.org

And Kyle makes a nice mention of me at the very end
of the main page of his article in the same issue:

http://www.newmusicbox.org/third-person/sep00/index.html

This article by Kyle Gann is a great overview of the
microtonal world, past and present.
- follow all the links!

-monz
http://www.ixpres.com/interval/monzo/homepage.html

--- In tuning@egroups.com, " Monz" <MONZ@J...> wrote:

http://www.egroups.com/message/tuning/12283

Congrats to Joe Monzo for his great inclusion in Oteri's New Music
Box. The recognition is appropriate and, I believe, somewhat
belated...

Frank Oteri has been "threatening" to do an issue on microtonality
for some time now, with the not-so-subtle encouragement of several
persons, including my humble yours truly...

Now here it is!

http://www.newmusicbox.org/index.html

The "lead article" is on John Eaton, and it is interesting, and
rather surprising for a couple of reasons. Eaton has been involved
in alternate tunings and electronic music for about as long as
anybody... and yet he composes on two pianos tuned to 24-tEt!!!!

It "surprised" me... but this is reality.

There is still a LONG way to go with "xenharmonic acceptance" but, I
believe the fastest way to get there is to ACCEPT the reality as it
stands and transform it... not to go off in little microtonal
"covens" and practice "rash experiments" to a couple of the
like-minded...

Aside from this lead article, there is an extended article, as Joe 1
mentions, on microtonality by Kyle Gann. It is terrific... but
somehow not quite as convincing as Gann's OWN web pages... that tend
to be a bit more elaborative. Why couldn't they just link to those??

Also missing are some very important links. There are no links to
John Starrett's main site a MUST for anybody interested in
microtonality... there is no link to Graham Breed's site. Also a
must! Joe Monzo, probably because he is in the articles, IS linked,
fortunately...

Johnny Reinhard gets top billing in the group shot... but Monz, Joe
Maneri, and Lois Vierk also get good billing. I was also a little
surprised that Lois doesn't use microtonality in any systematic
way...I love Lois, but perhaps Elodie Lauten would have been a better
choice for that reason...

Anyway... a nice tap into the "mainstream" and a good indication of
where we're all at at this moment, whether we like it or not!

It's basically GOOD news, not bad!
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Joseph Pehrson