Re: [tuning] microtonality

Dan!
As for my self I don't like either one per se. totally free improv or totally composed. I
find I can do more with allowing choices within strongly defined structures. It takes so
little in instructions to influence a music. If i place a particular instrument in front of a
person with a particular scale, I have determined quite allot, even more so it a rhythmic
substructure is played , even by another. I have found it fruitful in single pieces to have
different players to have different levels of predetermined music, from total to none. Many
world music have such balance in all types of different ways and it has produced some very
varied music within it confines.

"D.Stearns" wrote:

> I could never
> compose a "better" solo guitar piece than I could improvise, but
> there's also no way that I would expect any of my groups to improvise
> one of my compositions -- if you want a three measure rhythmic unison
> across seven instruments, free-improvisation might not be the best
> tactical approach to solving this problem!
>
> I cherish both through composition and total improvisation. But aside
> from hopefully being good music <!>, I don't expect each to be able to
> be the other.

> --d.stearns

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