quoted 26 lines Date: Sat, 27 Jan 2001 12:44:56 -0800 (PST)>
>Date: Sat, 27 Jan 2001 12:44:56 -0800 (PST)
>To: idm@hyperreal.org
>From: jon anderson <pyrrhonist2@yahoo.com>
>Subject: melody is rythm
>Message-ID: <20010127204456.723.qmail@web613.mail.yahoo.com>
>
>as a sidenote, when people talk about whether
>so-and-so is mostly rythm or mostly melody, it can be
>said that all music is really only rythm.
>
>when a pulse becomes rapid enough, we begin to hear it
>as pitch, and instead of "bpm" we refer to
>"frequency". e.g., when you hear a pitch, you receive
>a rapid succession of "beats" (changes of air
>pressure) on your eardrum.
>
>i could imagine someone (like r. devine maybe) taking
>this idea and composing with bpm organizations
>(instead of pitch organizations). like, simultaneous
>beat collages being "chords", etc. then, if you speed
>the track up really really fast (imagine gradually
>spinning the vinyl faster and faster...) you begin to
>hear a melody.
>
>j
yeah..the sound of your vinyl taking fire
this argumentation is completely preposterous just another try to
subdivide music, pitch, frequency, bpm, rhtym,
melody...seriously...who cares?
as for experimenting with bpms and pitch there are people out there
already doing it with ahving to recurr to silly tricks.
liquid
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