Peter, this is a lovely and deep anecdote about making music and thinking about it, in which neither endeavor inhibits the other. A while back I sent you a collection of essays about musical moments that changed people's lives each written in the first person one was by David Harrington, the violinist who founded Kronos Quartet. In his essay, he recalled, among other things, collaborating with a Tuvan throat, singer; when he talked to her about a particular note, her response was: what's a note?
Ornette Coleman imagined a situation in which there were just tones and those tones interacted in a non-hierarchical way.
What is a song? Is it insulting to call that song the tune? I guess a song is a song once you sing it.
Peter, this is a lovely and deep anecdote about making music and thinking about it, in which neither endeavor inhibits the other. A while back I sent you a collection of essays about musical moments that changed people's lives each written in the first person one was by David Harrington, the violinist who founded Kronos Quartet. In his essay, he recalled, among other things, collaborating with a Tuvan throat, singer; when he talked to her about a particular note, her response was: what's a note?
Ornette Coleman imagined a situation in which there were just tones and those tones interacted in a non-hierarchical way.
What is a song? Is it insulting to call that song the tune? I guess a song is a song once you sing it.
Very nice, very hypnotic.