Thanks to the list

Dear Tuning List,

I just received a package in the post from Dave Cope which reminded me that
I haven't thanked the tuning list following the successful showing of Andy
FilleBrown's and my tumbling dekany (entitled "Polyhedron") to an audience
of about 100, at Cope's 'April in Santa Cruz' Festival of Contemporary Music.

See the new page I made for it
http://dkeenan.com/Music/StereoDekany.htm

Since I couldn't be there (owing to a lot of intervening ocean). Dave Cope
was kind enough to mail me a copy of the printed program for the
'Algorithmic Shorts' concert and a pair of the 3D glases that were handed
out. Our piece was run at both the opening and the closing of the concert.
My good friend Dick Von Herzen was the "performer", connecting his notebook
computer to the UCSC Recital Hall sound system and video projector.

If you'd asked me two years ago if I'd ever achieve something like this, I
would have said never in a million years. Me, the mathematician, the only
non-musician on the tuning list. :-)

It only came about as a direct result of the kinds of discussions on the
list that involve mathematics and/or lattices. And in particular Paul
Erlich's explanation of Wilson's combination Product Sets. Without that, I
could have looked at Wilson's diagrams on Kraig Grady's website for a
million years and had nothing to show for it but a headache. (Valuable
service though it is, Kraig).

And of course if I hadn't been on the list I would never have met Andy to
help me turn my ideas into reality.

So I'd like to thank everyone who contributed, even if it was just to
comment on an early version.

And I'd like to encourage folks: If you don't understand how some math
someone posts relates to making music, then please ask for further
explanation. Keep us honest. Don't let us drift off into our own world of
jargon. And if you're not interested in the math at all, then please accept
that there are many who are. And it does lead to music, eventually.

Kind regards,
-- Dave Keenan
Brisbane, Australia
http://dkeenan.com