Re: Microtones through pitch inflexions vs ornamentations. Jazz & Indian Music

There are the microtonal inflections used in blues-influenced music, and
there is the more purely experimental microtonal players, which is well
represented by many free jazz players.

Check out Don Ellis-besides strange time signatures, he also used microtones
and even invented the 4-valve trumpet for employment in microtonal playing.
Microtonal playing may have been his reason for getting into more electronic
music too.

Stockhausen got into electronics for this reason. But that is not jazz.

Check out "Electric Bath" by Ellis. There are a couple of examples-sometimes
the band comes off sounding like a bagpipe! Its cool.

The saxophone uses both false fingerings, and embouchure to achieve
microtonal goals, quite easy for most woodwinds actually, often accidental.

I don't know if you are interested in Rock as well but Sonic Youth uses a
lot of microtonal techniques. Thurston Moore usually uses alternate tunings,
with downtuned drone strings (check out "Sister") and any of their early
stuff. I assume some avant-garde guitarists use alternate tunings to achieve
this but I can't think of an example.

Jared