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rowuk · 04-04-2007, 07:12 AM

1/4 or 1/8th tones only make sense to me if you have an audience for them. It is a lot of head work that only sounds out of tune to the uninformed.
I sang 1st Altus in Dies Irae by Kryztof Penderecki for his 60th birthday with a vocal sextet in Stuttgart, Germany. I had to learn 1/4 tones and be able to get them from a tuning fork A=442. It took me 2 weeks to find somebody that could reliably file down the tuning fork, then 6 weeks of 4 hours a day to get in shape. Yes, I learned something, yes, I would do it again if there was somebody there to listen to it. (My wife thought it was just noise......)

04-04-2007, 07:12 AM	#3 (permalink)
rowuk Moderator Fortissimo User Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Germany Posts: 4,640	Re: .25 tones 1/4 or 1/8th tones only make sense to me if you have an audience for them. It is a lot of head work that only sounds out of tune to the uninformed. I sang 1st Altus in Dies Irae by Kryztof Penderecki for his 60th birthday with a vocal sextet in Stuttgart, Germany. I had to learn 1/4 tones and be able to get them from a tuning fork A=442. It took me 2 weeks to find somebody that could reliably file down the tuning fork, then 6 weeks of 4 hours a day to get in shape. Yes, I learned something, yes, I would do it again if there was somebody there to listen to it. (My wife thought it was just noise......) __________________ Whenever I feel blue, I start breathing again.