road trip 2000 continued

Hi folks - just a quick update from the road...

I was able to visit SEJIS twice, a week apart, and was treated by
Darren Burgess to a view of the carillons and bass marimba in the
SEJIS collection, as well as a demonstration of all the great
computer-music work being done by Pat Pagano.

After a week of visiting family in other parts of Florida,
it was on to Mobile, Alabama, to have dinner with Can Akkoc, who
gave me a detailed explanation of his interesting work on
microtonality in Turkish classical music, and then Hattiesburg,
Mississippi, to visit Derle Long, who is working on better (JI)
intonation for wind bands.

After that was my first visit to New Orleans, where yesterday
morning I stood on the levee at Jackson Square, riveted by the
sounds I heard coming from the calliope on the Riverboat 'Natchez'.
The bass and chordal accompaniment sounded in tune with each
other, probably in something fairly close to 12-tET, but the melodic
line on top sounded at least a comma sharp on every note! Even
the tonic was sharp, and the subdominant even more so, perhaps as
much as a quarter-tone! Fascinating...

Then last night I got to Austin TX, where I got a chance to meet
and talk with Chris Chapman (on whose computer I am now typing)
and, today, Gary Morrison. Unfortunately I had hoped to meet
John Loffink, but just missed him.

That's just about it for visits to microtonalists, until I get
to San Diego in a few more days...

-monz (on road trip 2000)

PS - Hey Dave, Chris thinks the T-shirts are a great idea!

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