Microtonalists' critical reaction to a recovering microtonalist's critical reaction to Why Microtonality?: Difference between revisions
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Ultimately, as Mike (B) added, what ultimately matters is that you think it sounds good. Unfortunately when most people get a first impression of Xen it is of either highly dissonant music, music in dead simple scales with little flexibility, or music that sounds so much like 12EDO music it does not qualify as original. | **Ultimately, as Mike (B) added, what ultimately matters is that you think it sounds good.** | ||
**Unfortunately when most people get a first impression of Xen it is of either highly dissonant music, music in dead simple scales with little flexibility, or music that sounds so much like 12EDO music it does not qualify as original.** | |||
I highly recommend these videos to give you an idea where the limits of "good sounding" lie in Xenharmony | I highly recommend these videos to give you an idea where the limits of "good sounding" lie in Xenharmony | ||
[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qHHv3mwJTlg]] | [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qHHv3mwJTlg]] | ||
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Ultimately, as Mike (B) added, what ultimately matters is that you think it sounds good. Unfortunately when most people get a first impression of Xen it is of either highly dissonant music, music in dead simple scales with little flexibility, or music that sounds so much like 12EDO music it does not qualify as original. <br /> | <strong>Ultimately, as Mike (B) added, what ultimately matters is that you think it sounds good.</strong> <br /> | ||
<strong>Unfortunately when most people get a first impression of Xen it is of either highly dissonant music, music in dead simple scales with little flexibility, or music that sounds so much like 12EDO music it does not qualify as original.</strong><br /> | |||
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I highly recommend these videos to give you an idea where the limits of &quot;good sounding&quot; lie in Xenharmony<br /> | I highly recommend these videos to give you an idea where the limits of &quot;good sounding&quot; lie in Xenharmony<br /> | ||
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