expose'em early...

In a message dated 2003:06:26 04:28:17 PM, Monz writes:

>(my philosophy is: expose them to non-12edo early,
>before they have a chance to get trapped by it.)

Luckily I was exposed to a very wide range of musics from quite early on
(possibly even while I was in mother's womb)... nearly everything from
Chinese, Indonesian, Japanese, Korean, Tibetan, and Indian to Bob Dylan, European
classical, Stockhausen, the Beatles and even Yoko Ono (my mom partyed with her in
London in the early 60's).
Dad is still a big Dylan fan. Being of a darker nature, I prefer Tom
Waits and Nick Cave.
Nowadays my dad listens to mainly European classical music while drinking
tea in his backyard. He likes requiems a lot.

---
Hanuman Zhang,
musical mad scientist (no, I don't wanna take over the world, just the sound
spectrum...)

"What strange risk of hearing can bring sound to music - a hearing whose
obligation awakens a sensibility so new that it is forever a unique, new-born,
anti-death surprise, created now and now and now. .. a hearing whose moment
in time is always daybreak." - Lucia Dlugoszewski

"The wonderousness of the human mind is too great to be transferred into
music only by 7 or 12 elements of tone steps in one octave." - shakuhachi master
Masayuki Koga

"There's a rabbinical tradition that the music in heaven will be microtonal"
-annotative interpretation of Schottenstein Tehillim, 92:4, the verse being:
"Upon a ten-stringed * instrument and upon lyre, with singing accompanied by
harp." [* utilizing new tones]

NADA BRAHMA - Sanskrit, "sound [is the] Godhead"

"God utters me like a word containing a partial thought of himself." -Thomas
Merton

LILA - Sanskrit, "divine play/sport/whimsy" - "the universe is what happens
when God wants to play" - "joyous exercise of spontaneity involved in the art
of creation"

...improvisation is about change, about flux rather than stasis. ... you have
to be aware of the fact that improvisation is about a constant change. -
Steve Beresford

improvisation: "a process of liberation, a working around the assumptions
that define our civilization, and the results are open-ended." - John Berndt

>

sounds like dad is darker than you!

>
> From: czhang23@aol.com
> Subject: expose'em early...
> .
> Dad is still a big Dylan fan. Being of a darker nature, I prefer Tom
> Waits and Nick Cave.
> Nowadays my dad listens to mainly European classical music while drinking
> tea in his backyard. He likes requiems a lot.
>
>

-- -Kraig Grady
North American Embassy of Anaphoria Island
http://www.anaphoria.com
The Wandering Medicine Show
KXLU 88.9 FM WED 8-9PM PST

--- In tuning@yahoogroups.com, Kraig Grady <kraiggrady@a...> wrote:
> sounds like dad is darker than you!

Speaking of dark, the subject line made me think of a old guy walking down the street in a beat-up rain coat. He's got a little mini-boombox system on the inside, filled with tapes of microtonal music. A kid walks by and he flashes them, aurally and otherwise...

Cheers,
Jon

In a message dated 2003:06:28 12:49:36 AM, Kraig Grady writes:

>sounds like dad is darker than you!

I don't think so. I should have mentioned what kinds of requiems: he
likes the over-the-frikkin'-top Romantic-era requiems (i.e. Verdi, Berlioz,
Cherubini, ...).
::shudder:: Yech!!!! overdone florid ornateness-for-ornateness's-sake...
*gag!*

Ever heard Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds' _Murder Ballads_ or _The
Boatman's Call_? Imagine dark, raw Ol' Time Religion folk-music up-dated to the
Apocalyptic Age...
Oh and Einsturzende Neubauten is also another of my dark, raw-even-brutal
favs...

>> From: czhang23@aol.com
>>
>> .
>> Dad is still a big Dylan fan. Being of a darker nature, I prefer
>Tom Waits and Nick Cave.
>> Nowadays my dad listens to mainly European classical music while
>drinking tea in his backyard. He likes requiems a lot.
>>

In a message dated 2003:06:28 12:49:36 AM, Jon Sz. writes:

>Speaking of dark, the subject line made me think of a old guy walking down
>the street in a beat-up rain coat. He's got a little mini-boombox system
>on the inside, filled with tapes of microtonal music. A kid walks by and
>he flashes them, aurally and otherwise...

ROTFLMAO.
My sister's piano teacher, "Doc Auch", corrupted me. She lent me her
copies and tapes of: _The Liberation of Sound_, _Music Since 1945_, Henry Cowell,
Partch, Lou Harrison and Cage. It's been downhill-racin' since then ;)

---
Hanuman Zhang (aka "Z")
WOG (Wiley Oriental Gentleman ;)
Avatar of Sun WuKong, a.k.a _Ma-Lau_ ("Monkey")
a.k.a. "TricksterGod of the Glorious Anti-Imperialist Chinese Boxers";
¡¡¡ TricksterShapeShifterIncarnate !!! >^..^< ';' ;P~~~

<= thee prIs ov X.iztenz iz aetern'l warfaer 'N' kreativ playf'llnizz... =>

=> om hung hanumatay rudratmakai hung phat <=
mantra to Hanuman the Hindu Monkey TricksterGod

>Finally a religious statement I can agree with:
>
>the Zoroastrian teaching that it is a sin for a person to be boring.

"Life is all a great joke, but only the brave ever get the point."
- Kenneth Rexroth

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