Subject: Re: 665-tone equal temperament?

If you can hear the differance achieved in La Monte's music from most other JI , you are hearing just such
differances.
All music BTW is in the imagination. there is no such thing as objective music. Like i have said, i do not claim to
have an an exceptional ear, but i do recognize when things sound different. And remember i started in ET and it was
the siound that made me disregard my 31 tone instruments. This is not like changing a few dials on a a machine, it is
boxing up things that took alot of hard labor to get. The biggest Psychological effect i can think of is having to
build one tuning, knowing you are going to be stucxk with it for years, posibly it takes this type of 'pressure' to
really hone it what you want.

tuning@yahoogroups.com wrote:

>
> From: "Joseph Pehrson" <jpehrson@rcn.com>
> Subject: Re: 665-tone equal temperament?
>
> --- In tuning@yahoogroups.com, <monz@a...> wrote:
>
> /tuning/topicId_46045.html#46105
>
> > ... altho, of course, Kraig has some reservations about it.
> > and to an extent i agree with him.
> >
> > in my own listening experiments, and also when listening
> > to La Monte Young's music live at the Dream House, i often
> > swear that i can hear differences in tuning that i'm
> > theoretically "not supposed" to be able to hear because
> > the tiny differences in pitch are so small.
> >
> > i speculate that perhaps this is attributable to my
> > being able to *feel* the difference in vibrations
> > rather than perceive them audibly via the ear/brain.
> > but more research is needed to follow-up on that,
> >
> > and that's fine, because i means that i'm required
> > to listen to more microtonal music! ;-)
> >
> >
> >
> > -monz
>
> ***Just to be a devilish devil's disciple: is it possible that in
> music there is a "placibo" effect. Or, in other words, one's
> *psychology* makes one *believe* one is hearing something, or hearing
> a difference that is mostly just in the imagination??
>
> J. Pehrson
>
>

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