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Fwd: Re: Microtonality Made Easy

🔗robert thomas martin <robertthomasmartin@...>

5/25/2008 1:31:42 AM

--- In MicroMadeEasy@yahoogroups.com, "robert thomas martin"
<robertthomasmartin@...> wrote:

--- In MicroMadeEasy@yahoogroups.com, "Jacob"
<tricesimoprimalist@> wrote:
>
> Robert,
>
> I see you are doing a lot of thinking and building in various
> directions, with some criteria of practicality. This excites me.
Can
> I elicit from you a more detailed self-description of this group and
> your aims? Open-ended questions:
>
> (a) What elements of 'microtonality' do we wish to make easy?
>
> (b) For Whom do we wish to make microtonality easier?
>
> (c) Are there elements of microtonality which, if made too easy,
would
> seem watered down, distorted beyond recognizability, or otherwise
> undesirable to present microtonalists or anyone else?
>
> I'll venture an answer later today.
>
> Also, please please please look at the wiki
> <http://xenharmonic.wikispaces.com/> and consider inviting yourself
in
> and starting a project which would live on it. I notice that
> wiki-building lets us amass useful information into a cluster of
> interlinked pages which may be more perusable than endless
dispensable
> listserv messages. (Listservs function well for other things,
> granted.) Already on the wiki are an attempt to catalogue
> acoustic-instruments as they concern microtonality, and a microtonal
> pedagogy collective with only one member :(
>
> Best,
> jacob
>
From Robert. Please feel free to forward any of my postings to
wherever you wish. Also to re-interpret and re-state any of my ideas
to wherever you wish whether to wikispsces or whatever. If you think
that there is merit in my ideas then go for your life. Do whatever
you want.

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