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Quasicrystals and 12EDO

14 September 2026
I defend 12EDO these days becasue it gets a bad rap. It is a quasicrystal, and creates the frictionless behavior within that is structurally the same as the frictionless – superconducting! property of some quasicrystals. Quasicrystals do appear in …
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Temperament is a Social Construction

20 August 2026
image: Geog Joseph Vogler, who began speaking of *Mehrdeutigkeit*. Gottfried Weber developed the principles much further. “It follows from the lawless, capricious spirit of the present age, which would egotistically annihilate the world and the …
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What Happened to the Cult of the Small?

1 August 2026
What Happened to the Cult of the Small? or Who Cares if You Sell Magazines? Wm. Kentner Anderson There remains a cult of the small in the US, and its predicament is a limpid encapsulation of the pathologies or our time, the pathologies of the …
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Metaphors for the "Extended Common Practice"

18 August 2024
Metaphors and Analogies I’m staking out some positions running up to >The microtonal Village< – an important part of a weekend of concerts September 19 through 22. The Village Trip American Primitive and Inventors of Genius …
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