[LAU] Re: That must suck. For me it's about beauty--musicisjustone path

[Chuck Martin]

On Thu, Apr 05, 2007 at 04:22:35PM -0400, Rob wrote:
> alternative scales are.  I'd bet even most of that 1% would 
> still think Wendy Carlos' "Beauty in the Beast" was not "the 
> music of the perhaps not too distant future", but merely a 
> poorly recorded and out-of-tune record.  (Speaking for myself, 
> that whole record was the closest thing I've experienced to "the 
> brown note".)  

I think that, like any other alternative to the common Western 12 tone
scale, it takes time to get used to.  If I'm not mistaken, that album
used a scale that divided the octave into 250+ notes.

Chuck