Monzo: _LA Tango_

> From: Graham Breed <graham@...>
> To: <crazy_music@yahoogroups.com>
> Sent: Thursday, July 19, 2001 5:19 AM
> Subject: [crazy_music] Re: New file uploaded to crazy_music
>
>
>
> > File : /monz/LATANGOcr7.mp3
> > Uploaded by : joemonz@y...
> > Description : "LA Tango" by Joe Monzo, in JdL's adaptive 7-limit JI
> >
> > You can access this file at the URL
> >
> > /tuning/files/monz/LATANGOcr7.mp3
>
> This is really good! Put on those dancing shoes and check it out!
>
> It sounds like the patches could be improved, but the 7-limit
> retuning's working without a glitch.

Thanks, Graham! Glad you like it. If you or anyone else
can and wants to play my GM file using better sounds, feel
free. I'll upload the MIDI to the files section too.

This little ditty has a special place in my heart. I just
wrote to John deLaubenfels about it this morning, and I
suppose what I wrote him is worth quoting here, at the very
least to acknowledge his contribution to what you're hearing:

> I thought-up this piece while working in the kitchen of a
> convalescent home in Los Angeles back in the summer of 1981
> (my first abortive attempt to live in California), and
> wrote a sketch of it (just melody and chord-letters) down
> on manuscript paper.
>
> But in the two decades since then, I never recorded,
> sequenced, or even *played* it once! Except for that sketchy
> lead-sheet (which we both know well is *not* a very accurate
> representation of the piece), the only place it ever really
> existed all that time was in my head!
>
> It was only just a couple of months ago that I finally
> decided to draw the notes into my computer screen and create
> the MIDI-file. And the 12-EDO version did *not* sound like
> the one in my head! Your 7-limit adaptive JI version does!
> So you definitely deserve a pat on the back for a job well done!

-monz
http://www.monz.org
"All roads lead to n^0"

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