microtonalists gone bad

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jon Szanto" <JSZANTO@ADNC.COM>

> --- In tuning@yahoogroups.com, David Beardsley <db@b...> wrote:
> > Forgive him, for he uses 12tet at work all day and his judgement is
> > unbalanced as a result.
>
> But, just like the guys doing street repairs and construction,
> I always take a shower when I get home and wash off all the
>bad intonations. Then I feel much better!

You wash off the bad intonations AFTER you get home????

[tears hair out repeatedly]

AFTER you've tracked it all over the house! Then after you
wash up, you walk right back through it!

That explains a lot about what's been going on around here
lately! Now we'll have send you to Montclair State University for
reprogramming.

* David Beardsley
* microtonal guitar
* http://biink.com/db

db,

--- In tuning@yahoogroups.com, David Beardsley <db@b...> wrote:
> You wash off the bad intonations AFTER you get home????

Well, they didn't have showers at the hall so I had been in the habit of tearing off all my clothes out in the street and then hosing off at the hydrant on the corner. But after being arrested numerous times (always with the cops muttering about "...another goddam crackpot California microtonalist...") I decided I better save my time in the pokey for more important affairs, like protesting illegal and immoral wars.

See, I figured I was doing the world a favor, and that my fellow 'microtonalists' would understand completely, knowing my spotless track record.

> AFTER you've tracked it all over the house! Then after you
> wash up, you walk right back through it!

Oh, you haven't been to the house lately - lots of plastic sheeting and duct tape. It's safe.

> That explains a lot about what's been going on around here
> lately! Now we'll have send you to Montclair State University for
> reprogramming.

Well, I've already got the microtones ingrained in my DNA. All they could do back there for me is the standard procedure: remove your spine, snip your balls, and you end up playing the most hellacious musics like a docile kitten...

Cheers,
Jon

In a message dated 2003:06:04 03:55:37 PM, JSZANTO@ADNC.COM writes:

>Well, I've already got the microtones ingrained in my DNA. All they could
>do back there for me is the standard procedure: remove your spine, snip
>your balls, and you end up playing the most hellacious musics like a docile
>kitten...

Eh "docile kitten", 0_o? What an oxymoron!!! *googolgigglabyte!*
More like a simpering, cowering, neutered dog ya mean...

Ok, I entirely biased. I like cats a lot - some say too much (my shrink
and my mother think so, esp'ly since I am inordinately fond of quoting "the
gods have retractible claws" and self-mutilating by feline-proxy).
I musta been a psycho-kitty in a previous life or something...

ObTuning-related: IMHO it seems that cats like music a quite bit more
than dogs.
Ferinstanz, recently, Luc the Black Cat - who has adopted me - got rather
pissed-off at me when I turned off one of Brian McLaren's compilation tapes of
microtonal music then relaxed when I turned it back on again.
A friend of mine had a cat that liked crawling into bass guitar amps and
keyboard amps but only if the music was not too "rock-ish" or too loud. This
cat also reaaally seemed to like bass frequencies, especially droning tones.
I know of a harpist, an acoustic guitarist and a cellist who also are
adopted by cats and these cats are inordinately fond of these musical
instruments' sounds/timbres (BTW these cats were not exactly kittens when they choose
their humans either).
On the other hand, a sax/bagpipeplayer and an
accordionist/harmonica-player report their cat-companions scramble as far from these particular sounds as
felinely possible (I don't exactly blame 'em either).

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>Finally a religious statement I can agree with:
>
>the Zoroastrian teaching that it is a sin for a person to be boring.

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--- In tuning@yahoogroups.com, czhang23@a... wrote:

> Ferinstanz, recently, Luc the Black Cat - who has adopted me - got
rather
> pissed-off at me when I turned off one of Brian McLaren's
compilation tapes of
> microtonal music then relaxed when I turned it back on again.

My dog hates McLaren's music. It could be just a matter of differning
tastes.

In a message dated 2003:06:05 04:06:35 AM, gwsmith@svpal.org writes:

>--- In tuning@yahoogroups.com, czhang23@a... wrote:
>
>> Ferinstanz, recently, Luc the Black Cat - who has adopted me - got
>>rather pissed-off at me when I turned off one of Brian McLaren's
>>compilation tapes of microtonal music then relaxed when I turned it back on
again.
>
>My dog hates McLaren's music. It could be just a matter of differning
>tastes.

ROTFLMAO. Luc also likes Indian music, esp'ly tambura music/solos.
I guess drones are not that too different than purring sounds. Also
microtonal music maybe new to Luc, cats tending to be naturally curious, adventuresome
creatures. Luc's primary human is a rock musician, so probably Luc likes the
"change of sonic scenery" and the wide variety of musics I listen to.
Intriguin' experiment: play some Indian music and other kinds of music
(i.e. Arabic, Maori, Australian Aborigine, etc.) for your dog and see how he
reacts... report the informal scientific results. I am curious :)

---
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

"There's a rabbinical tradition that the music in heaven will be microtonal"
-annotative interpretation of Schottenstein Tehillim, 92:4, the verse being:
"Upon a ten-stringed * instrument and upon lyre, with singing accompanied by
harp." [* utilizing new tones]

"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"

...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

improvisation is "a process of liberation, a working around the assumptions
that define our civilization, and the results are open-ended." - John Berndt