Re: [microsound] texture as narrative???

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dion workman wrote:
> 
> What I find interesting about Kim's question and the subsequent postings
> proposing to address the problem of "texture as narrative" is the
> assumption that a narrative structure is involved at all. 

Yes, yes, yes, I could not agree more. Music/sound has it's one internal
logic and grammar, quite unique to its own characteristics. In our
listening we sometimes draw parellels to narrative, to physicality or to
other kinds of ideas, but music is outside (or beside) all this. Change
over time does not necessarily equal narrative, just as unaltered
repetition does not equal stasis, because both can serve as a catalyst
to differing mental states/perceptions... some might include narrative,
some might not. But this is endlessly subjective and may be missing a
point of Kim's original question.

I took the question as posed from the compositional viewpoint, and was
about shape in pieces. How can one create movement (narrative or not) or
its suggestion within a relatively mono-chromatic setting. For me
structure has a lot to do with it, that is to say how the sounds are
divided up, in what sequence they appear or change, creating an arc or
arcs with organization. Perhaps this is a different type or music/sound
than others are talking about.

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