Re: Aleatoric Tuning

After many years of playing fixed pitch instruments the fretless
guitar was a pretty shocking revelation in that I rapidly found that I
could either focus in very diligently on very precise intonation (and
the like), or I could relax my focus to various degrees and all the
way down to a level where I could pretty much have my aleatoric cake
and eat it too!

I try to approach microtonal theory in exactly this same way. Not that
that should work for everyone or that it even works all the time for
me, but it does seems just right for me... a perfect fit.

--Dan Stearns

--- In tuning@y..., "D.Stearns" <STEARNS@C...> wrote:
> After many years of playing fixed pitch instruments the fretless
> guitar was a pretty shocking revelation in that I rapidly found
that I
> could either focus in very diligently on very precise intonation
(and
> the like), or I could relax my focus to various degrees and all the
> way down to a level where I could pretty much have my aleatoric cake
> and eat it too!
>
> I try to approach microtonal theory in exactly this same way.

Cool. I'll look at your theorizing with more interest from now on.