Post from Ezra Sims

http://209.213.98.1/forums/Index.cfm?CFApp=69&Message_ID=665038#Messag
e665038

(You'll have to copy that one... it probably won't work with the
break)

Here is a message from Ezra Sims that was posted to the American
Music Center Website (featuring microtonality!) with the link above.
Since it was a public message, I assume he does't mind if there is a
"reposting." I found it very interesting:

EZRA SIMS:

>I probably shouldn't be horning in like this, but --
>-- well, you know, it can be done. I've had performers doing my
>72-note stuff very prettily for some 30 years, now, and my
>quarter-tone stuff for another 10 before that. (I have to admitthat
>the the quarter-tones, being less natural didn't come out so
>accurately, and now that I know better, I'm glad.)

>It has involved distributing electronic ponies to players of new
>pieces, getting wind players to compile charts of the fingerings
they used in one of my pieces so that I could distribute them among
new players, using live computer-generated sound (David Rayna's
RTMPII
>system) as a continuo or accompaniment, or just being around at
>rehearsal to tell people when they were going wrong and get them out
>of difficulties.

>(A good notation doesn't hurt. I designed mine to be as transparent
>to tradiionally trained musicians as possible. See:
>https://www.mindeartheart.org/micro.html.)

>There are of course performers whose mind sets are too fixed or
>technical imaginations too impoverished to play me. But there are
at the moment three CDs in CRI's catalogue and one in Frogpeak's to
show what can be done, often on laughably short rehearsal.

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Joseph Pehrson