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

[Frank Barknecht]

Hallo,
Chuck Martin hat gesagt: // Chuck Martin wrote:

> 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.

One track on that album, "Just Imaginings" uses a 12-tone harmonic
scale modulated over the 12 ET-tones which makes 144 different notes
all together. Those of you who were at the LAC/C-base concert may have
noted that I shamelessly stole exactly this scale in my performance. ;)

Ciao
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