I agree wholeheartedly with you Casey... There are such parallels with structure here... it's just vibrational structure - patterns. There are SO MANY parallels here (and other places) that sometimes my heads hurts with the feel of all of it.
It's at once intensely beautiful and painful because there's so little understanding around it. Love, Julian On 23/01/2012, at 12:48 PM, Casey Ransberger wrote: > Below. > > On Jan 22, 2012, at 1:51 PM, Reuben Thomas <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On 22 January 2012 21:26, Casey Ransberger <[email protected]> wrote: >>> Below. >>> >>> On Jan 21, 2012, at 6:26 PM, BGB <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>>> like, for example, if a musician wanted to pursue various musical forms. >>>> say, for example: a dubstep backbeat combined with rap-style lyrics sung >>>> using a death-metal voice or similar, without "the man" (producers, ...) >>>> demanding all the time that they get a new album together >> >> Only art is not science: it doesn't have pieces you can take apart and >> reuse in the same way (technique does). >> >> So it's not an analogy that works. >> >> (I did a PhD in computer science, and I make my living as a singer.) >> >> -- >> http://rrt.sc3d.org >> _______________________________________________ >> fonc mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://vpri.org/mailman/listinfo/fonc > > Music has parts you can disassemble and reuse. We do it all the time. I > appoigized to my father for stealing and warping his song, when I sent him a > song he wrote about me when I was a kid that I never liked, with every > lyrical assertion reversed. > > I was afraid it would upset him. His reply was, "You've done nothing wrong. > This is the folk process." > > Whatever the hell that means, anyway I spiked my mohawk and went to work. > > I can take a single measure of your music and produce variations based on it. > I can take a single line from a four part harmony you've written, transpose > it, change the key signature, even change the mode, and hand it back to you > with a string orchestra. > > We're way the hell off topic here, but I have to admit being stunned to hear > that a musician cannot fathom taking a piece of music apart and reusing parts > of it. How many guitar songs use G-D-C for the chord progression? Have you > ever heard of theme and variations? > > Your argument about art doesn't stand. > > C > _______________________________________________ > fonc mailing list > [email protected] > http://vpri.org/mailman/listinfo/fonc _______________________________________________ fonc mailing list [email protected] http://vpri.org/mailman/listinfo/fonc
