Jacob Barton
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//What was your path to discovering alternate tunings?// I began music very early and was fortunate enough to have MIDI software and hardware from about age 8. By high school, I was over sequencing and into writing for acoustic instruments, even planning to build some new ones. Doing a music theory project in I stumbled upon LucyTuning and Partch's //Genesis of a Music//, fascinated by the seemingly wide-open possibilities of an extended pitch continuum. And yet, months went by as I searched to no avail for microtonal music that did what I wanted music to do (a hard enough task without the microtonal). Through that process I got a lot less picky in listening - MIDI sounds don't bother me so much, for instance. A big step in the search was realizing that people were calling this stuff "microtonal music". When I found some writings by Ivor Darreg, I found that his pan-intonational approach fit me better than Partch's more centered view. (I'm very diffuse!)
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<html><head><title>JacobBarton</title></head><body><em>What was your path to discovering alternate tunings?</em><br /> I began music very early and was fortunate enough to have MIDI software and hardware from about age 8. By high school, I was over sequencing and into writing for acoustic instruments, even planning to build some new ones. Doing a music theory project in I stumbled upon LucyTuning and Partch's <em>Genesis of a Music</em>, fascinated by the seemingly wide-open possibilities of an extended pitch continuum.<br /> <br /> And yet, months went by as I searched to no avail for microtonal music that did what I wanted music to do (a hard enough task without the microtonal). Through that process I got a lot less picky in listening - MIDI sounds don't bother me so much, for instance. A big step in the search was realizing that people were calling this stuff "microtonal music". When I found some writings by Ivor Darreg, I found that his pan-intonational approach fit me better than Partch's more centered view. (I'm very diffuse!)</body></html>