Microtonal EQ / Craig Leon

[rafspielman]

Hi all,
Just read this very cool interview with Craig Leon:
http://bombmagazine.org/article/1000173/craig-leon

In the section about recording Suicide he mentions using "microtonal EQ," which he says is a technique that comes from Can and Neu! records. Does anyone know what he's talking about? Sounds intriguing.

[loxnbabybagels]

Great read, thanks for posting. I have no idea what microtonal eq is, though.

[LupineSound]

That sounds intriguing. Google is coming empty. I'm now curious as well.

[Theo_Karon]

Doesn't really make much sense to me - it's a bit like saying 'polyphonic stereo' or something like that, no?

As in - there's nothing about any EQ I know of that's tethered to any particular tuning system - it's just cycles per second. Either a pitch falls within the band, or it partially does, or some of its harmonics do...? That might be something, cutting or boosting harmonics that are significantly out of tune with the fundamental (as inevitably happens with equal temperament) but you'd have to be incredibly precise and alter the settings with each note played - and I can't really imagine something that time intensive and timbre-specific going around as a technique or a 'sound...' but who knows.

Sounds more like a fancy phrase to describe a technique that produced some sort of exciting result - whether or not the phrase makes any particular sense, it sure sounds cool!