Re: (idm) We are the music makers, we just don't know it yet
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quoted 11 lines Nicholas W Zammuto <nzammuto@wso.williams.edu> writes:> Nicholas W Zammuto <nzammuto@wso.williams.edu> writes:
> >>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.
I think all good music has the potential to be infused with a moment in time.
For an example, the second track on the Reload LP - i first heard it while going
over the Bay Bridge in the middle of the night and every time i listen to it,
just a little bit of that moment is still there.