mad scientist music

[Jon Szanto, TD 177.11]
> What I find fascinating is the ability for some to be
> so interested in returning to tuning in harmony with
> nature (JI) and then sit around and tweak the sucker with
> formulas.

Are you talking about me? :)

Well, Jon, 'nature' has turned out to be a whole lot more
complex than your simple basic JI scale.

> Real mad scientist stuff, if you ask me, which you didn't.

It's OK, I'm a big boy - I can take it.
Actually, kinda makes me feel good to be lumped in with
Varese and Zappa like that.

> Hell, I'm just getting over the correlation between years of
> Paul Erlich's posts of numbers galore and my new-found picture
> of him playing sweaty blues!

Yeah, that could be a mind-blower.

Paul's a lot more multi-dimensional that he sometimes appears
in these 'pages'. In addition to some really heavy music
theory discussions, we had a lot of fun when I visited him.
He's really up on prog-rock too - I got to hear a lot of
stuff I've missed.

BTW, Jon, did you miss the origin of this whole Zappa thread?
There was no word from you then, and you may know something.

It all started when I pointed out that a section of 'Lumpy Gravy'
sounds like a spliced-in 'sample' of a Partch piece.
No one had any concrete (unintended pun, but not bad) info
- anything from you?

-monz

Joseph L. Monzo monz@juno.com
http://www.ixpres.com/interval/monzo/homepage.html
|"...I had broken thru the lattice barrier..."|
| - Erv Wilson |
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