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Mictotonality in the news... (with Hobbits)

🔗Bill Sethares <sethares@ece.wisc.edu>

3/16/2007 8:06:08 AM

From the Guardian:

http://music.guardian.co.uk/rock/story/0,,2034598,00.html

Frodo gets funky

Elijah Wood has set up his own record label. But he's no Hollywood
dabbler - his first signing is a cult act obsessed with maths. Paul
Lester meets Wood and the brains behind the Apples in Stereo

...In the course of his studies, he chanced across a new musical
scale, based on Pythagorean theory, whose "microtonal quality,
compared to native-American note intervals, we're not predisposed to
dealing with culturally...

🔗Carl Lumma <clumma@yahoo.com>

3/16/2007 4:13:23 PM

> From the Guardian:
>
> http://music.guardian.co.uk/rock/story/0,,2034598,00.html
>
> Frodo gets funky
>
> Elijah Wood has set up his own record label. But he's no Hollywood
> dabbler - his first signing is a cult act obsessed with maths. Paul
> Lester meets Wood and the brains behind the Apples in Stereo
>
> ...In the course of his studies, he chanced across a new musical
> scale, based on Pythagorean theory, whose "microtonal quality,
> compared to native-American note intervals, we're not predisposed to
> dealing with culturally...

You can't make this stuff up!!

-Carl