RE: [microsound] random thought

[Danny Wyatt <danny@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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>i wonder if the conscious sense of anticipation would hinder, augment, or
>even create the perception of a musical theme?
>
>or, if they were too small to be physically sensed, if the brain could
>teach itself to recognize it as such?  like the ability of one sense to
>recover or compensate for a lost one?


	"Well first let me just say, that I'm no Mingus, no John Lewis.  Theory was
never my strong point.  I mean things like reading were always difficult for
me and all -- "
	"I know," Meatball said drily.  "You got your card taken away because you
changed key on Happy Birthday at a Kiwanis Club picnic."
	"Rotarian.  But it occured to me, in one of these flashes of insight, that
if that first quartet of Mulligan's had no piano, it could only mean one
thing."
	"No chords," said Paco, the baby-faced bass.
	"What he is trying to say," Duke said, "is no root chords.  Nothing to
listen to while you blow a horizontal line.  What one does in such a case
is, one _thinks_ the roots."
	A horrified awareness was dawning on Meatball.  "And the next logical
extension," he said.
	"Is to think everything," Duke announced with simple dignity.  "Roots,
line, everything."
	Meatball looked at Duke, awed.  "But," he said.
	"Well," Duke said modestly, "there are a few bugs to work out."

(Pynchon, Thomas.  "Entropy."  _Slow Learner_.  New York:  Little, Brown,
and Company, 1984.


and that's enough schoolboy quoting from me for the evening,
Danny