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

From: Chuck Martin <dsdhpnw02@email-addr-hidden>
Date: Fri Apr 06 2007 - 08:36:36 EEST

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

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