Originally posted by LudwigVan
Western music is almost always viewed from a 12-tone equal perspective, so most of us don't even care about precision, really. I like to think in
terms of JI, but I'm not trying to be dead-on precise. I'm not *that* good of a musician or instrumentalist. (And I've heard electronic music in pure
JI, and it sounds completely dry and sterile.)
My obsession with accuracy comes from two sources: the fact I'm rebelling against Western 12-tone so much, and that I'm a bass player, and while you
hear a violinist or singer when he's out of tune, you *feel* a bass player when he's out of tune. (Or at least I do.) |