Goforit! .. but it's right HERE!

To Darren Burgess:

Glad you're still "hanging around" (hope you didn't mind my last little
"vacation" joke)-- and many thanks again for the help with the TX81Z and
Scala (!!), now my inexpensive little lab (!)

Perhaps I was a bit too harsh with our "on-line" e-mail course educator.
If he made you think of your priorities, then "goforit!" He obviously
worked for you... That's the important part.

For me, it seemed that he was a little demeaning toward alternate tuning
in his statements -- kind of like it was just "surface messing around"
going on and not necessarily an integral part of the compositional fabric
and structure, determining the nature of events...

I get a little concerned when people start talking about music "meaning"
something. It kind of sounds like Richard Strauss and a "programmatic"
approach. (I love Richard Strauss, though, so it can obviously work
sometimes -- but there sure are BAD examples of this method...)

May I humbly suggest using resources right at hand?? Right on this very
list we have some extremely capable composers who are also microtonalists
and who might be willing to assist you in compositional details in a
microtonal context at a reasonable fee, if they have time. Joe Monzo and
Johnny Reinhard come immediately to mind... although I am certain there are
many, many others here -- I'm just not yet familiar with their work... but
I hope to be.

Best of luck, and please do "stay tuned"

Joe Pehrson