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From:
Arnold Layne
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Date:
Tue, 30 Jan 2001 00:39:32 -0000
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Re: [idm] melody is rythm
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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 > > >--------------------------------------------------------------------- >To unsubscribe, e-mail: idm-unsubscribe@hyperreal.org >For additional commands, e-mail: idm-help@hyperreal.org >
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