microtonality today

[danstearns]

Hey, for anyone who might be interested in this topic I thought I'd
mention that there's a 600 plus member forum over at Yahoo:

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/tuning/

Topics tend towards the theory end of the spectrum, but from the
novice to the diehard this is far and away the most active and
thoroughgoing forum on this subject in existence... check it out,
participate.

Dan Stearns
Guitarist-composer-microtonalist:
http://www.zebox.com/daniel_anthony_stearns/

[danstearns]

Yeah, I suppose some of the lingo can seem a tad impenetrable at
first... but if you have an interest there, certainly don't let that
stop you!

It's a fairly benign bunch, so if you have any questions (or general
interests or whatever) you should just introduce yourself and post up
something relevant to you.

Dan Stearns
Guitarist-composer-microtonalist:
http://www.zebox.com/daniel_anthony_stearns/

"Crispin Bennett" <this_is...@yahoo.com.au> wrote in message news:<3eb0e098$0$1030$afc3...@news.optusnet.com.au>...
> "danstearns" <daniel_anth...@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> Well I joined thinking this might be interesting. It probably is. When I
> come across a single post I understand, I guess I'll be on my way to finding
> out ;)

[Mark Smart]

daniel_anth...@yahoo.com (danstearns) wrote in message news:<ab38ce07.03042...@posting.google.com>...

Very cool. This makes me curious if anyone has used or is using just
tuning for jazz. I did a little bit of searching on the Yahoo group
and didn't see anything obvious. The times I've played around with
just intonation on a computer, I was impressed by how nice a 13#11
chord sounded. The main problem, of course, is switching tunings every
time a new chord comes by, but that could be done with digital
technology. Is there already music like this out there? More stuff to
try in Reaktor...

I guess the vocalists have been doing it for a long time. Take 6
sounds so perfectly in tune that they MUST be bending the thirds down.

Mark Smart

[danstearns]

The two most innovative and important contemporary jazz players are
diehard microtonalist, Joe and Mat Maneri. But they're not JI guys. JI
jazz has been done however; most famously by NY guitarist John Catler
and his Catler Bros. band, and I'd highly recommend their Crash
Landing recording to anyone with so much as a passing interest.

Gerald Eskelin--of Lies My Music Teacher Told Me fame--has worked with
higher harmonics (i.e., 11s and 13s) in his a cappella groups, but
this is actually quite rare. Barbershop, however, is an excellent way
to soak up a vocal music rich in concordant thirds and sevenths;
justly tuned dominant seventh cords being a veritable barbershop
staple.

Dan Stearns
Guitarist-composer-microtonalist:
http://www.zebox.com/daniel_anthony_stearns/

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