Re: [tuning] Pierre Schaeffer interview

Daniel Wolf wrote:

> > The interview really gets off with quite a bang(!), as Schaeffer
> > grimly ends his very first response with, "seeing that no one knew
> > what to do anymore with DoReMi, maybe we had to look outside that...
> > Unfortunately it took me forty years to conclude that nothing is
> > possible outside DoReMi... In other words, I wasted my life."
> >
> > Dan
> >
>
> At dinner once in Middletown, Ct., the audio artist Doug Kahn repeated this
> quote to John Cage. Mr. C., without missing a beat, replied that Schaeffer
> "should have tried continuing further on up the scale."

Yes it is likewise a shame that his cultural background possibly blinded him to the vast world
music that is not based on DoReMi. Very successful music at that. It seems "progress" in music
at this point is not so much in a continued "evolution", but in a "widening" in the
recognition of the human musical compass already here. Against the "experimental" failures of
the 60's, we have only to loosen the borders that separate us from our neighbors.
-- Kraig Grady
North American Embassy of Anaphoria island
www.anaphoria.com