https://bumnote.com/tags/microtones/Recent content in Microtones on bumnoteHugoen-GB© 1974–present bumnote press • Copyleft / anti-copyright CC BY-NC 4.0Tue, 08 Sep 2026 04:20:00 +0100https://bumnote.com/posts/the-anatomy-of-a-wrong-note/Tue, 08 Sep 2026 04:20:00 +0100https://bumnote.com/posts/the-anatomy-of-a-wrong-note/<p>There is a moment, forty-one seconds into a rehearsal take we have listened to more times than is healthy, where Thelonious Monk plays a cluster so wrong that you can hear the engineer&rsquo;s chair creak as he reaches for the stop button. He does not press it. That hesitation is the whole history of the music we care about.</p>https://bumnote.com/posts/in-praise-of-feedback/Fri, 14 Aug 2026 20:15:00 +0100https://bumnote.com/posts/in-praise-of-feedback/<p>When Jimi Hendrix pushed a Marshall stack into self-oscillation on a Monday morning in August 1969, he converted an engineering defect into political speech. The anthem came apart under the feedback, and the coming apart was the point. Nobody in the field needed the liner notes.</p>