Yahoo Tuning Groups Ultimate Backup tuning missing members

----- Original Message -----
From: "Joseph Pehrson" <jpehrson@rcn.com>

> Well, I'm not missing anything, but we're missing some of our
> stalwart Tuning List participants:
>
> Paul Erlich, Neil Haverstick, Dan Stearns, Jacky Ligon, Robert Walker
> and Jon Szanto.
>
> I can't imagine that these people have found better use of their
> time....

I can.

You missed this:

Message 38278

From: "D.Stearns" <STEARNS@C...>
Date: Fri Jun 28, 2002 12:49 am
Subject: going offline, etc.

Sunday will be my last day online, and quite possibly for some time
too. Over the years I've exchanged CDs and whatnot through the mail
with some of you, but I'll no longer be at that address, so please
don't send anything there.

I'll keep some of my music online as well as some interviews and few
things I've written (like the homage to Ives and the Haverstick
interview). I'm also going to open up a Yahoo email address which I'll
hopefully have the occasion to check in on from time to time. I'll
post all these links when I'm sure they're up and running.

I'd be less than honest if I didn't say that I've felt a good deal of
frustration over the course of the last four years on these lists. But
there's also no mistaking that I've learned a lot and met some very
fine folks whom I'd be happy to call my friends--thanks to all of you!

I've come to the conclusion, and only lately really, that I honestly
think most of the folks that I've repeatedly clashed with here over
the years are folks that I'd get along a lot better with if I knew
them outside of this distortedly, one-dimensional medium. I wish I'd
realized this earlier. (I of course can't speak for anyone but myself,
but it's clear to me that this medium, and for that matter the
internet on the whole, is rather dehumanizing... and potentially
seriously so I think. Yes, the list of its virtues could easily go
long into the night, but it's inorganic and addictive and it seems to
me as though it throws a spookily monochrome blanket over everything
it touches too. No, you can't stop progress... but you can choose to
try and step out of its way.)

There are already many incredibly dedicated practitioners who have
cleared out their own areas in this field, and interest in
microtonality seems to be growing all the time. What the lists
probably suffer from most, in my opinion at least, is a stifling and
often times debilitating lack of diversity of input and contribution.

A concentrated few keep the ball rolling with admirable consistency
and as a result dictate the direction and content of the discourse. So
to all of you out there that are interested, stand up and be
counted... I'm sure there are people here who are dying to get a break
from the regularly scheduled programming!

take care,

--Dan Stearns

missing members

🔗Joseph Pehrson <jpehrson@rcn.com>

🔗David Beardsley <davidbeardsley@biink.com>

🔗Joseph Pehrson <jpehrson@rcn.com>