return of: here's to over-abstract music

In a sense, I am composing when I write
these Tuning List postings. I try on
the more involved ones to work out a form
for the structure of the post itself that
will help make a complete picture of what
I am trying to express. (So do many others
on this List)

I rely not "just" on diagrams and math
(actually very little of that from me),
but on my use of the English language and
any writing skills I may or may not have
acquired thruout my career.

I try to inject some humor into most of it
and not make it "just" dry tedious academic
boredom.

I hope not to "just" push my theories onto
others and refuse to listen to their criticism,
but rather to keep things lively and
provoke others into response, to inspire
me on to further speculations, formulations,
and corrections.

(there, I'm not a strict "just"-intonationist,
either!)

Most of us do this in our postings. That's
exactly my point. Whether or not others
out there are composers, we're all using
this forum as an outlet for an interchange
of ideas, and for expressions of our own
creativity, in whatever way.

That's one of the reasons why the wwweb
is so popular - because it gives anyone
who can get the space a chance to put a
little bit (or a lot) of themselves out
there in the world, for the continuous
interaction among all of us.

This is important stuff to me. I really
believe that the next millenium is going
to start with a major step in the evolution
of our species, and the computer and the
web are going to have a whole lot to do
with it.

I'm really going off topic now, but
with no end to the population problem
and the possibility of space colonization
we've got to learn how to live together,
and the wwweb is playing a vital role in
this.

OK, back to earth. So I'm glad to know
that Dave Keenan loves my postings.
A few of us more verbose types know we
have fans out there, that's why we keep
writing.

In a sense, these postings are our own
"scores" of over-abstract music. I think
I'll start calling each post a "piece"
and put it in my catalog and be really prolific.

-Monzo

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