The 432Hz 'God' Note: Why Fringe Audiophiles Want to Topple Standard Tuning. The first time Ivan Yanakiev heard an instrument tuned to 432 Hertz, he says, it was like he’d heard God speak.
In the men’s dressing room at the Musical Drama Theatre Konstantin Kisimov in Veliko Tarnovo, Bulgaria, Yanakiev, a young, National Academy-schooled conductor, had his friend, Velimir, tune his cello down eight Hz from the standard A=440Hz. They were arranging an experiment. Velimir, “a skilled cellist,” Yanakiev told me, started in on the prelude to Bach’s “Cello Suite No. 1 in G major.” A Relative and an Absolute by Mona Van Duyn. Web Sound. A DRUG CALLED TRADITION Sherman Alexie. A DRUG CALLED TRADITION (from Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven) ~Sherman Alexie Goddamn it, Thomas," Junior yelled.
"How come your fridge is always fucking empty? " Thomas walked over to the refrigerator, saw it was empty, and then sat down inside. "There," Thomas said. Everybody in the kitchen laughed their asses off. When Indians make lots of money from corporations that way, we can all hear our ancestors laughing in the trees. "Hey, Victor," Junior said. "No way," I said. But I did have this brand new drug and had planned on inviting Junior along. "Listen," I whispered to Junior to keep it secret. "Cool," Junior said. We ditched the party, decided to save the new drug for ourselves, and jumped into Junior's Camaro. "Where do you want to go? " "Hey, Thomas," I asked. "You guys know it ain't my party anyway," Thomas said. We laughed. "Hey," I said. Thomas climbed in back and was just about ready to tell another one of his goddamn stories when I stopped him.
Master Class: Cecil Taylor - Poetry and Performance. Fred Moten on Cecil Taylor. Where do words go?
Where, into what, do they turn in Cecil's rendering: a generative disintegration, an emanation of luminous sound? The interinanimation of recording, verbal art, and improvisation -which Chinampas is and enacts -places performance, ritual, and event within a trembling - which Chinampas escapes -between words’ florescence and the constitutive absence of the book.5 Nevertheless that trembling raises certain questions: for instance, that of the relationship between words and their phrasing.6 Changes, like that from word to growl, occur here taking the word to where it does not go but neither to any origin as pure sound nor to the simple before of the determinations of meaning.
This change and movement might be at the phonemic level, might mark the generation of or from a lost language and/or a new thing that is, in spite of its novelty, never structured as if the before that is absent and indeterminate had never been or does not still remain there. Collected Poems: A Bilingual Edition - Stephane Mallarme - Google Books.
Mallarme: Selected Poems- In verse translation. Mallarme: Selected Poems- In verse translation. Electronic Literature Directory. 4079 - electronic poem. Music Publications. Untitled Document. Indian Concepts in the Music of John Coltrane by Carl Clements John Coltrane was at the forefront of many important directions in jazz in the 1950s and 1960s, including those that have been labeled hard bop, modal jazz, avant-garde jazz, and world music.
One interest that became an increasingly dominant focus for him in his later years was the study of Indian music and spirituality. While Coltrane’s music remained firmly rooted in jazz, this exploration was an important part of the development of Coltrane’s personal style from the early 1960s to the end of his life in 1967. Coltrane exhibited a constant drive to absorb new ideas throughout his career.
In the course of his search for structure within this loosening of harmonic boundaries, Coltrane began studying Indian and other non-Western scales and modes. Coltrane also developed an interest in Indian religion and philosophy. Coltrane integrated Indian music and concepts into his style in a number of ways. Transcription by Carl Clements. Merrill Garbus >< Haiti. "...If travel is like love, it is, in the end, mostly because it’s a heightened state of awareness, in which we are mindful, receptive, undimmed by familiarity and ready to be transformed.
That is why the best trips, like the best love affairs, never really end. " — Pico Iyer These days, I'm trying to write a new album. Right now it's called Sink-o , but who knows if that will remain. It came from my obsession with the word "syncopation," which is a miserable sink-o of a word. Syncopation derives its definition from what it is not : rhythmically speaking, it's not what you "expect" to happen; it's a "deviation" from the "norm.
" Oh, show me the way to situate myself in a non-western musical tradition. I started by studying drumming with Haitian-born teacher Daniel Brevil out here in Oakland, California. (“Groove” is another overused, vaguely defined word. JSTOR: The Musical Quarterly, Vol. 76, No. 4 (Winter, 1992), pp. 502-525.