Re: Miller and the MicroTones
| From: | Herman Miller <hmiller@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, December 17, 1998, 4:34 |
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On Tue, 15 Dec 1998 22:19:44 -0500, Sally Caves <scaves@...>
wrote:
>Nice samples, Herman. I wonder how often musical ability goes hand in
>hand with linguistic ability.
I think there's got to be some part of the brain that deals with sound
processing in general. Music, languages, and bird songs are all interests
of mine. Of course, not all languages are spoken, but the spoken ones are
the ones that I have the most interest in.
> I've spent a lot of my spare time making
>up tunes for Teonaht and chromatic waltzes, but I haven't attempted
>(can't!) to sample it as you have... nor do I experiment with quarter
>tones, which is what I think you're doing. The effect is very lovely
>and bizarrrrrrrrrrrre. Can't hear your MIDI files, though. Netscape
>asks me to download something, and I hate that.
I enjoyed the one sample of Teonaht singing on your web page. I wonder =
why
your Netscape doesn't like MIDI files?