http://www.newmusicbox.org/articles/between-u-s-a-hyperhistory-of-american-microtonalists/
Not that I'm planning to become a microtonalist composer but Gann's been reliably fun to read when he's blogged. I'm working through his monograph on the Charles Ives Concord Sonata. He's also written a succinct summary and defense of John Cage's 4'33" in a book called No Such Thing as Silence. That doesn't mean I'm a huge fan of that particular work but that I can appreciate what Cage thought he was trying to do. I can even appreciate being inspired to compose a work of silence in reaction to endless canned Muzak in department stores.
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