Re: (idm) We are the music makers, we just don't know it yet
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Nicholas W Zammuto <nzammuto@wso.williams.edu> writes:
quoted 13 lines we were driving through wyoming. we had just entered yellowstone national>>we were driving through wyoming. we had just entered yellowstone national
>>park and i had Aphex SAW II on at a comfortable listening level. it
>>struck me at that moment how amazing it was that the music seemed to have
>>the ability to seemlessly absorb its surroundings. the variegated hum of
>>the engine, the wind around the car, the smell of sulphur, the fluffy
>>big clouds... i felt the need to awaken my friend, asleep in the passenger
>>seat, so she could experience the way the turning of the car on the road
>>seemed to perfectly accompany the rhythm of the music, but i didn't
>>because the slow sound of her breathing was such a perfect counterpoint to
>>the tightening of the brakes as we rolled into the valley.
>>
>>resonance, my friends, is why we listen, right? we are more than playback
>>engineers, music is bigger than we are.
It's kind of ironic--the very reason I usually refuse to
listen to ambient works (like the SAWs) or classical
music in a car is all the background noise and the usually
crappy stereos. But you took the background noise and
made it part of the music--how very Cagean of you!
On a vaguely related note, Autechre seems to be pretty
cliche on this list. What is the name of the last track on
the second disc of "Tri Repetae++"? I know this track
was released previously. I must say--it is probably the
most moving piece of modern music I've ever heard.
Whenever I listen to it--but esp. when I first heard it--
I get almost painful attacks of nostalgia. I can't explain
it any better than that; I just become overwhelmed by
nostalgia of my youth to a point where I can hardly stand
it. Must be a mental fluke of mine!
Unlike John Cage, Autechre creates music I have a lot of
trouble talking about. And you know what they (read: Eno)
say about "talking about music"! kevin M R.