Does anybody else out there know 'Slow Music' by Lol Coxhill and Morgan
Fisher on Voiceprint? Its amazing, if you like the stuff mentioned below
then check it out today! Any other suggestions of similar stuff would
be greatly appreciated ;)
quoted 36 lines Brilliant, If you listen to it in the shop youll flick the needle over all
> > Brilliant, If you listen to it in the shop youll flick the needle over all
> > forty minutes and say 'it doesnt change!'... but it does, this is what
> > trance music is really about.
>
> I second this assessment. I listen to this stuff on long car trips :)
>
> > In C is a composition consisting
> > of several musical patterns all based around one simple musical theme.
> > The musicians (including Jon hassel on the original mid-sixties recording)
> > change the patterns at will and in some ways its quite strict, but it is
> > improvisation...
>
> Close--there are 52 (53?) patterns which everyone plays in strict
> succession (always the same order), underneath a pulse played on the top
> octaves of a piano "by a beautiful girl" as the score says (for whatever
> *that*'s worth--it was the sixties, you know--I'd just as soon substitute
> a beautiful guy). Each person decides on his/her own when to move to the
> next pattern, though, so eventually several of the patterns overlap, and
> the piece oozes thru several textures and harmonic areas. Very elegant.
> Incidentally, the score suggests a performance taking place over a
> year--one pattern a week. As far as I know, no one's actually done this. :)
>
> If this controlled randomness approach interests you, look for Fredric
> Rzewski's "Les Moutons de Panurge"--everyone plays the same tune, but
> additively (note 1, notes 1+2, notes 1+2+3, etc.) and you're *supposed*
> to get lost (i.e. a "correct" performance is one in which the notation is
> *not* followed accurately).
>
> And I can't let this go without plugging Steve Reich's Music for 18
> Musicians. A full hour of expertly paced and seriously blissed-out groove
> (w/ no drums). Fabulous. J
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