quoted 11 lines Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2000 19:14:11 -0500> Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2000 19:14:11 -0500
> To: idm <idm@hyperreal.org>
> From: Guillaume Grenier <gollum@videotron.ca>
> Subject: Re: [idm] Re: loopbuster
> Message-ID: <B6601E03.14565%gollum@videotron.ca>
>
> On 15/12/00 17:15, brian albers said in living color:
>
> >>> 2) ALL music is loops. And manipulations thereof. Name me ONE sort of
> >>> music
> >>> that doesnt and, well, I'll fuck a dog or something. Thats how sure I
am.
quoted 3 lines any of the John Cage pieces composed by random processes is not loop> >>
> >>
> >> any of the John Cage pieces composed by random processes is not loop
based.
quoted 3 lines Although I'm not so familiar with his work, perhaps Arnold Shoenberg's> >>
> >
> > Although I'm not so familiar with his work, perhaps Arnold Shoenberg's
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quoted 7 lines tone compositions fit into the "non loop based" category. Perhaps Zappa?> > tone compositions fit into the "non loop based" category. Perhaps Zappa?
>
> No, actually, Schoenberg's serial works are heavily "loop" based, if you
> accept a loose definition of loop, which seems to be what the "fuck-a-dog
> challenge" person had in mind.
>
> The whole point of serial composition is that you start with a, hmm... is
it
quoted 1 line "row" in English? and you sprinkle it everywhere in the work, reversing> "row" in English? and you sprinkle it everywhere in the work, reversing
it,
quoted 1 line transposing it, mirroring it, and otherwise transforming it.> transposing it, mirroring it, and otherwise transforming it.
yeah reminds me of the definition that music is the pleasure of unconscious
counting.
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