tuning(s) in pop music (wasRe: Messiaen's use of harmonic series [was: orchestral tunings]

>From: Louis_Nelson@adidam.org
>Subject: Re: Re: Messiaen's use of harmonic series [was: orchestral tunings]

[ . . .] > Take your basic jazz
>quartet. The piano is in 12-tET, but the sax can tune in JI
>adaptively. So pianest plays an ET C, and the sax plays a JI note
>above it. Then pianist plays an ET F#, and sax plays JI note above
>it--I think adaptive JI melody above ET harmony is actually the most
>common tuning heard in popular music today.

Though 87-98% eminiently ;) disposable & excremental, it can be argued
that some Pop Musics chief virtue is it's willingness to experiment with new
music/sound technologies and ideas.
I think some pop music is 12tET, quasi-12tET, semi-JI and nonJI/nonET
(nonJI/nonET i.e. digital sampling of noises & playin' them as tonalities,
Industrial/Techno music performance dj-ing, electric guitar hum, feedback and
distortion, using scrap metal percussion and power tools as musical sound/noise
tools - not just percussively and timbrally, also tonally.... ad infinitum).
Sometimes strange tonalities/scales/modes can be heard in WorldBeat
Techno & Trance (but it seems more for exoticism's sake than real substanstive
musical depth)... But some Ambient music (esp'ly Robert Rich) is of much higher
quality.

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