report on El Paso Microhoot

Hello all,

Recovering today from the long drive to Texas, which I
shared with Jonathan Glasier, Bill Wesley, and Brian
McLaren. The second El Paso Microhoot went well and was
fun. Not too well-organized, but enjoyable nevertheless.

All three of my presentations (lecture on Robert Johnson,
lecture on Sumerian tuning, and performance of _Spider_,
which was repeated on Saturday) were quite successful.
Bill Wesley's presentation on his interval/emotion theory
was really outstanding, IMO.

Harold Fortuin's segment, entitled "Split-Key Soup",
included a pointed and very funny social satire piece
combining Dizzy Gillespie's _Night in Tunisia_ with
_Bali H'ai_, in 22-equal, and also several other original
compositions as well as Clavette transcriptions of an
archicembalo piece by Vicentino, a piano piece by Mandelbaum,
and a guitar piece by Darreg.

Stephen James Taylor presented an ambitious new piece
that was very good, as well as the film-clips we saw in
April at Microfest. Kraig Grady gave several excellent
improvs. Jonathan Glasier gave a good workshop on overtone
singing, as well as a couple of pieces/improvs with Bill,
one of which (_Aftermath_) was quite good.

Barbara Hero and Robert did their usual gig, Erv demonstrated
the harmonic series on the tubulong in one talk and discussed
Pascal's Triangle in another, Scott Hackelman explained his
clavichord and played a nice Indian piece, and Ed Borasky
presented Dave Keenan's Tumbling Dekany in 3-D (interesting),
and his own _When Harry Met Iannis_, an algorithmic stochastic
piece based on rules derived from aspects of Partch's and
Xenakis's work. I think that covers everything.

It was good to see everyone there! Looking forward to
the next microtonal get-together, which rumor right now
has scheduled for Oregon sometime next year.

love / peace / harmony ...

-monz
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--- In tuning@y..., "monz" <joemonz@y...> wrote:

[snip]

> It was good to see everyone there! Looking forward to
> the next microtonal get-together, which rumor right now
> has scheduled for Oregon sometime next year.

That is the hope, anyhow :-) Now that there are *two* Oregon
microtonalists, it seems like a good idea. My piece is available on
the web at

http://www.borasky-research.net/HarryIannis.mp3

with a PowerPoint wrapper at

http://www.borasky-research.net/HarryIannis.htm

On another note, I'm looking into the possibility of a
microtonal "jam" over the Internet. The MPEG-4 Structured
Audio "sfront" pre-processor now has some primitive capabilities of
this nature. See

http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~lazzaro/sa/sfman/user/network/index.html

for the (extremely) gory details. Most of the publicly-available SAOL
instruments use MIDI control, and can be (fairly) easily hacked to
honor pitch bends. Once I get a little free time, I'll post these
hacked instruments.
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