Re: For Johnny Reinhard -- musicmaking in this forum

Hello, there, Johnny Reinhard and everyone.

Please let me share my own impression that the question here may be
not so much whether people are interested in making music, but where
and how.

A great range of contributors from Alison Monteith to Dave Keenan have
made their music available here.

From my own perspective, much of the music discussed and sometimes
directly shared in this forum could be seen as a variation on the
great medieval and Renaissance European tradition, for example, of
music with the performer -- or community of performers -- as a primary
audience. Of course, new technologies let us record and share these
performances, or even realize examples or compositions by purely
electronic means.

The balance between practice and theory can be a delicate one, and my
own approach typically is to tune something at the keyboard, explore
it, and reach conclusions based on that experience.

The sharing of examples and compositions here is something which gives
the theory a very concrete expression, however small or large the
audience.

Having said this, I am most pleased to add that public concerts are a
very special kind of arena, and that your contributions to this arena
over the years are a very special gift to our communnity.

Whether you choose to post, or only at present to read, your sharing
of your experience and musical viewpoint on matters ranging from
1200-tET notation to the intonational ideal of Charles Ives has added
to the variety, color, and excitement both of the microtonal music
scene and of this forum.

Most appreciatively,

Margo Schulter
mschulter@value.net