G. Who woulda thunk that melody is rhythm. This thread has been so
enlightening to me. Thanks IDM :)
--AL
quoted 32 lines From: "R. Lim" <rlim@escape.com>
>From: "R. Lim" <rlim@escape.com>
>To: idm@hyperreal.org
>Subject: Re: [idm] melody is rythm
>Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2001 19:12:35 -0500 (EST)
>
>On Sun, 28 Jan 2001, Matt U wrote:
>
> > Well yes, but ideally one would not have to spin the vinyl faster to
> > hear this melody. The record that opened my ears to this concept was
> > released in 1956 - it was Max Roach's playing on Thelonious Monk's
> > "Brilliant Corners" that awakened me to the real beauty of rhythm as
> > melody.
>
>Yeah, Roach was a genius at this. Other later practitioners of this
>particularly tonal school of drumming are Masahiko Togashi (active in
>Japan since the late 60s) and the guy from Supersilent.
>
>Before we head off into wave/particle duality, I do want to mention that
>the original melody/rhythm duality was brought up in the context of
>Schaeffer et al's _Study of Sound Objects_, which is a fascinating audio
>essay pertaining to the technical aspects of musique concrete-making and
>how they relate to sound and language (a relation at the heart of French
>musique concrete). The system of music production that Russolo talks
>about in _Art of Noise_ is remarkably to the system that the GRM devised.
>
> -rob
>
>
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