Occurred to me that most people are not aware how pervasive equal temperament is. Just want to make it clear that this is not part of some kind of reactionary movement is favor of the most conventional music possible. It’s simply acknowledging that most music you encounter in the modern world can be played on a standard piano or digital keyboard, and that it’s tuned to A=440 Hz. Not only is this true of almost all pop music and western classical music, it’s true of almost every anarchist punk band, hip-hop producer, bedroom recordist and free jazz musicians up to the point of noise. Most atonal music is still using equally tempered notes; it only forgoes regular scales, and most experimental music that intentionally deviates can be measured in it’s deviation from equal temperament*. It’s not an ideology, it’s a fact of life in the modern music world.

Up next: more on this.

*(which was my original purpose, I think)