Tr : IRON/OIL/SAPPHIRE/STEEL

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De�: Sarn Richard Ursell <thcdelta@ihug.co.nz>
� : wim.hoogewerf@fnac.net
Objet�: IRON/OIL/SAPPHIRE/STEEL
Date�: Lun 20 d�c 1999 3:40

Dearest Members of the alternative tuning list,

I wanted to ask you people these things:

Did any of you (at all) ever watch an ABSOLUTELY BRILLIANT television
series, which I wish that they would make another whole lot of programmes
called "SAPPHIRE AND STEEL"?

The reason I ask this is because I have often woundered if there is any type
of personality which is into microtonal music, which is like mine.

I, by the way, have been reported to have "Aspergus syndrome", a very mild
kind of autism, by a very impatient shrink that I go to see when people are
pulling my strings to much-I also looked this up on the internet, and found
that as children, the Aspergus are often "hyperlexic" (I assumme this means
that they have a VERY big vocaulary), and have learned to talk at a very
early age, and often suffer from mental depression.

Funnily enough, not only are all of these thing very true, at least in my
case,I am on a fairly strong dose of anti-depressants now, and when I do not
take them, boy, watch out.

Sadly, people in New Zealand have a very low tolerance for anybody not
playing the big American Highschool routein, especially in my generation,
and cannot tolerate anybody the slightest bit different.

I always find it amuseing those that conform by trying to be different,-you
know, the whole deal, peirced nose, peirced eye, black garments, stout
hesian undergarment, etc....

Microtonality has fasinated me, ever since I was a young boy of 8, for
goodness sake, and I will do everything in my power to spread the non-12
word.

To John Chalmers:

I would very much like to help you get word around about the Xenharmonikons,
and I have been looking around for information on superpowers, as so that
one day, having brought the sampler and sequenceing software, the Akai
S2000, by the way, has 100th of a CENT RESOLUTION!!!!!!!!!!, which was
pretty fantastic, I would gladly help you, wereever you so desire.

I am also looking for laws for superpower exponents, but things are just not
straight foward.

I have plans for about 37 short studys using ET's, superpowers, mathematical
constants, tortured JI, and subliminal messages.

As a final few comments, I have been looking through the older emails, that
I posted to the list, and I was thinking today about the rotateing cycloidic
pickups.

A gentleman replyed to me about these, and I can't remember who it was.

The reason that I say this, is because I thought of a novel type of pickup,
which I cannot figure out what existing technology to use, to make this be
realised cheaply, and practically.

I thought that this pickup could itself consist of merely two sheets of
plastic (laminated), and have flowing through it iron fileings and oil or
alchol, which, of course, could be magnetised.

Somehow, someway, this could be pumped through, and form a turbulent and
chaotic flow,-this system would have to be extremely sensitive, I have tryed
toy magnests on a friend's guitar, and they wern't nearly strong enough, to
do anything of any interest what-so-ever.

How could we change the surface over which this flows?

The BIG QUESTION IS; WHAT THE HELL WOULD A TURBULENT PICKUP SOUND LIKE?????

I got this idea at nearly the same time that I heard about a nifty little
toy called the "E-Bow", and I have had thoughts about a similar sort of
system made into a double skinned glove.

Any suggestions?

Sincerely,

Sarn.