xentonal ice cream truck/'brokeness' as an aesthetic

Hey all,

I had a profound experience today. I heard a Good Humor ice-cream truck
approach with a fantastically warped/broken sounding set of ice-cream chimes.

I wish I had a sample of it to share with you. But it basically sounded
magical in it's severe out-of-tuneness. It sounded like we were all in an
Yves Tanguy painting, buying ice cream from some kind of Willa Wonka type
person. Or that gumby himself was going to serve us up some soft serve.

It made me think: I like things that sound like they are 'broken'. Like that
ice cream trucks chimes. Like electronic circuits that are chaotically wired.
Like the 'wrong note' aesthetic of Prokofieff, Stravinsky, Honegger, Milhaud.
I also imagined a sort of never before heard insect like music that had a
mechanical clarity, but then the 'brokeness' came from someone stepping on
that insect...

But I have to tell you, the ice cream truck beat 'em all. It's something I'll
never forget in my life. I swear it could inspire a whole movement in music
towards the sweetly macabre xentonal !!!!

Best,
--
Aaron Krister Johnson
http://www.dividebypi.com
http://www.akjmusic.com

--- In MakeMicroMusic@yahoogroups.com, "Aaron K. Johnson"
<akjmicro@c...> wrote:

> But I have to tell you, the ice cream truck beat 'em all. It's
something I'll
> never forget in my life. I swear it could inspire a whole movement
in music
> towards the sweetly macabre xentonal !!!!

This reminds me of the time Ives heard two brass bands marching
towards each other.