the Carlos Thread (wasRe: [tuning] (unknown))

In a message dated 2003:05:08 01:08:56 PM, cb202@columbia.edu writes:

>Doesn't she mention using a 144-tone scale somewhere in the notes?

Yepyep.

>I was wondering if this was 144-tet, as a sort of even-better-than-72
>approximation of Just.

IIRC my friend said it was somewhere between those as far as he could
tell. Carlos did a good job of - probably - using studio efx, filtering and
DSP thus making it is very difficult to determine for sure with any accuracy
or certitude.

---
Hanuman Zhang, the "Yves Klein Bleu Aardvark"

"The wonderousness of the human mind is too great to be transferred into
music only by 7 or 12
elements of tone steps in one octave." - shakuhachi master Masayuki Koga

"In the beginning was noise - raw sound, the seed sound, the One, _Nada
Brahma_, the Big Bang. And noise begat rhythm. And rhythm begat everything
else. And thus the Dance began. Rhythm and noise. There is terror in noise,
and in that terror there is also power." - adapted from writings by Mickey
Hart

"I have the feeling that the English word 'noise' has more negative
connotations than our German word 'Gerausch'. We would describe the sound of
wind blowing as Gerausch, to imply that it's a beautiful and natural sound.
...I make noise...I like these sounds and this has nothing to do with
'anti-beauty'" - Helmut Lachenmann

"We cannot doubt that animals both love and practice music. That is evident.
But it seems their musical system differs from ours. It is another
school...We are not familiar with their didactic works. Perhaps they don't
have any." - Erik Satie

"Among the artistic hierarchy, the birds are probably the greatest musicians
to inhabit our planet." - Olivier Messiaen

NADA BRAHMA - Sanskrit, "sound [is the] Godhead"
LILA - Sanskrit, "divine play/sport/whimsy" - "the universe is what happens
when God wants to play" - "joyous exercise of spontaneity involved in the art
of creation"

---
Hanuman Zhang

...improvisation is about change, about flux rather than stasis. ... you have
to be aware of the fact that improvisation is about a constant change. -
Steve Beresford

Mankind's first musical performance couldn't have been anything other
than a free improvisation. - Derek Bailey

What strange risk of hearing can bring sound to music - a hearing whose
obligation awakens a sensibility so new that it is forever a unique,
new-born, anti-death surprise, created now and now and now. .. a hearing
whose moment in time is always daybreak. - Lucia Dlugoszewski