On Thursday 05 April 2007 15:44, Brad Fuller wrote:
> In what human ear are you referring? And in what context
> and/or culture?
I would imagine he's talking about his own culture, which would
be what we broadly call "Western" and in which probably fewer
than 1 percent of the population even knows what micro-tuning or
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".)
As far as the other 80% of the world goes, that part of it who
hasn't adopted the even-tempered scale due to not having radio
and TV or whatever, I can't speak for Charles but I really don't
think they're going to be listening to my music, and if they
did, they probably would already have heard enough even-tempered
music that they wouldn't mind.
I guess this whole thread is instant karma for me having
contributed to off-topic threads in the past, 'cause it sure
doesn't seem to have much to do with Linux or even computer
audio anymore.
Rob
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