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Re: [microsound] obtuse or acute?



they probably just mean "difficult"...maybe i'm just stating the
obvious and you guys are trying to qualify the "difficultness" of the
sounds in one manner rather than another.

is there a certain kind of "difficult" that you prefer over others?
(silly question?)

do you prefer "small" over "difficult" ?  (joke?)

-jake

On 4/15/05, Kevin Ponto <kevin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >> Anyone else think "obtuse sounds" is among the worst possible phrases
> >> to employ when discussing microsound.
> > I see them as being acute...no?
> 
> Quite. A word that can mean dull, blunt, wide and/or lacking
> intelligence seems almost a comically bad choice in this context.
> 
> k:p
> 
>

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