issue09

EMUSIC-L Digest                                      Volume 43, Issue 09

This issue's topics: Miscellaneous
	
	A moment of silence, please...
	nets continued
	New MIDI message (2 messages)
	odd sod

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Date:         Thu, 13 Aug 1992 08:17:25 MDT
From:         Adam Schabtach 
Subject:      A moment of silence, please...

...in memory of John Cage, who died at the age of 79 yesterday.

(Or maybe that should be 4'33" of silence.)

--Adam                                     schabtac@stout.atd.ucar.edu


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Date:         Mon, 3 Aug 1992 15:02:51 EDT
From:         Mark 
Subject:      Re: nets continued

Mike Metlay writes:
"Hmmm. You're making an eye-ear-brain connection here. I don't know if that ext
ra link in the chain is either necessary or helpful -- aftera ll, when *I* look
 at a score, I see a bunch of funny lines and  dots. I see motion and density o
nly in the vaguest sense, and have no cognitive link between ink-blots and note
s."

Most well-trained musicians do develop  a cognitive link between ink-blots (not
es) and musical sounds. This is, for example, what allowed Beethoven to compose
 his later works without being able to hear them. This is what allowed pianist
Walter Giesking to peruse a score while riding on a train, memorise it and then
 perform it that evening without having so much as touched a piano in the inter
im. When I look at a score, I hear the music in my head, perhaps not with the s
ame level of comprehension as when I read English, but the eye-ear-brain connec
tion is most definitely there. Likewise when I hear music I can visualize the
written notes whizzing by.

                           --Mark Simon
                             tip@cornellc.cit.cornell.edu

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Date:         Fri, 21 Aug 1992 11:43:38 ADT
From:         Alan Edwards 
Subject:      New MIDI message

The drummer and I were discussing the need for a colossal sound at the end
of a piece, as well as MIDI things in general.
We decided that a new MIDI message was needed:  All Notes On

Of course this would be implemented as a companion message to All Notes Off,
and effectiveness would vary dependent on the available polyphony.

We thought it was a good idea, but are not sure how to present it to the IMA.


:-)       ...in case you were wondering...           (-:

Alan
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  Alan Edwards
  UNB Physics                              internet:    aedwards@unb.ca
    Canada
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         If the K2000 is VAST...does that make the K1000 half-VAST?




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Date:         Mon, 24 Aug 1992 09:32:03 GMT
From:         Edgar Hellfritsch 
Subject:      Re: New MIDI message

Alan Edwards  writes:

>We decided that a new MIDI message was needed:  All Notes On

*falling down choking with laughter* This one's GREAT!!!!
Finally someone had a REALLY useful idea how to improve good old MIDI.
I'll be the first one to use it!!!

Way to go, Alan!!!

Edgar Hellfritsch, Erlangen/Germany.

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Date:         Mon, 31 Aug 1992 12:45:07 EDT
From:         ronin 
Subject:      odd sod

and i do mean dirt...
i've been scanning vinyl bins (and cd seconds) recently, and have come
across various schulze and td that i have bought largely to keep up the
collections. for the most part, i have simply added to my understanding
of the concept of the canon... the collection of an artist's works which
are best known and distributed. these albums are definitely lesser products,
and seem to have been printed and released more for the purposes of archival
completeness than any real merit. specifically, i picked up 'pergamon' and
'tyger' by td, and 'en=trance' and 'dreams' by schulze. uniformly, these
things are second rate, more like half-realized experiments than the products
of significant inspiration. pergamon is a live album (in e. germany, i think),
of no particular distinction. 'tyger' is one of the few released td experiments
in vocal works... much more extensive than that on 'cyclone', it includes an
entire song cycle based on blake, sung with some degree of conviction by
someone who sounds trained as a soul singer. not a total failure, but
not a wow, either. 'dreams' starts off like one of schulze's standard sequence
jams, which is nice, but about half way through one side someone begins to sing
here, as well, and it does not even seem rehearsed. the voice has been
processed enough to be unitelligible, but not enough to be interesting. bleah.
the other one, 'en=trance', is a series of diddles on an entire rack of roland
synths, the d quite prominent among them. i bought it thinking that i might
like to hear what schulze would make of this suite of sounds, and found
what appears to be his sound pallette (the tape that one makes of one's
patches, mostly for personal reference). pretty cheesy, for klause.
in short, if, like me, you *must* have everything an artist does, then
by all means pick up these albums. they have a certain historical value,
and in no case are wretched... just generally uninteresting. if, however,
you are in the market for music to listen to, and are not so concerned
with the obscure back corners of german pop-synth music... skip 'em.
pick up wendy carlos' 'switched on bach 2000' instead... more on which
later.

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