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Re: [microsound] Re: summer book lists?



true, but that's a blind experiment.
what I'm thinking of here is that you have
to be experienced in the basic structures
of language (i.e. grammar etc.) to read, but you don't have to know
dick to enjoy music. Hence an author can play with
words knowing his audience will (hopefully get it) while a musician
can cleverly blend all sorts of structures behind music
and yet if it doesn't make an aesthetic effect, your average
listening won't know. How do you make a pun in music?

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A


On Monday, June 28, 2004, at 09:13 PM, Phil Thomson wrote:


My composition teacher told me about the experience of playing the surrealist game of "Exquisite Corpses" with several of his friends in his student days. One would take a sheet of music paper and write a line of music plus a note, fold it over, and pass it to the next person who would proceed from the last note of the person before them.

I guess you could do this with computer music too. One person could
write a line of zeroes and ones on a sheet of paper and pass it to the
next person. The last person could unfold the sheet and type it into a
hex editor and put a soundfile header on it and burn it to CD. Just a
thought.

P


On Mon, 28 Jun 2004, andrew jones wrote:

Date: Mon, 28 Jun 2004 18:19:38 -0400
From: andrew jones <liminal18@xxxxxxx>
Reply-To: microsound <microsound@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: microsound <microsound@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [microsound] Re: summer book lists?
"Flaubert’s Parrot" by Julian Barnes

ahh Flaubert's Parrot. that's a good one. on another note, how do you take the cleverness of literary games to music? i mean you have to know a language to read it, but you don't have to know music to listen to it, hence a lot of the word play and tricks that mark great literature seem to be less translatable to music.

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