∞ 2-Jul 08

neverneverland: Any attempt to codify musical reality into a kind of imitation grammar (I refer mainly to the efforts associated with the twelve-tone system) is a brand of fetishism which shares with fascism and racism the tendency to reduce live processes to immobile, labeled objects, the tendency to deal with formalities rather than substance. [Luciano Berio, Classic Essays on Twentieth-Century Music] the 55th’s and wolf-integers of just intonation make equal temperament easily what is and was set to become mere “pop” music.

neverneverland:

Any attempt to codify musical reality into a kind of imitation grammar (I refer mainly to the efforts associated with the twelve-tone system) is a brand of fetishism which shares with fascism and racism the tendency to reduce live processes to immobile, labeled objects, the tendency to deal with formalities rather than substance.

[Luciano Berio, Classic Essays on Twentieth-Century Music]

the 55th’s and wolf-integers of just intonation make equal temperament easily what is and was set to become mere “pop” music.