'out-of-tuners'

> [Daniel Wolf, TD 401.9]
>
> Out-of-tuners: Rhy Chatham, who started as a professional
> harpsichord tuner, then discovered JI via Tony Conrad, and
> then La Monte Young, has written one piece _The Out of Tune
> Guitar_, actually an ensemble work, based upon an accidental
> "found" tuning in which he once found his guitar. Jonathan
> Segel, from the Camper van Beethoven camp, composed _Three
> Pieces for Out of Tune Piano_, intended to be played on a
> 12tet instrument that has drifted out of tune.

I just wanted to mention Annie Gosfield, a young New York
composer who also writes pieces using ideas like this.

And isn't Chatham's first name 'Rhys'?

-monz

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> > [Daniel Wolf, TD 401.9]
> >
> > Out-of-tuners: Rhy Chatham, who started as a professional
> > harpsichord tuner, then discovered JI via Tony Conrad, and
> > then La Monte Young, has written one piece _The Out of Tune
> > Guitar_, actually an ensemble work, based upon an accidental
> > "found" tuning in which he once found his guitar. Jonathan
> > Segel, from the Camper van Beethoven camp, composed _Three
> > Pieces for Out of Tune Piano_, intended to be played on a
> > 12tet instrument that has drifted out of tune.

A while back there was a big discussion on chaos tuning systems. Although
this is probably not the kind of formalized theoretical basis for a scale
that we were talking about, it is an interesting take on the subject.

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Glen Peterson
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