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Re: [microsound] time
hello Tim Kugel,
I don't know if I have any answers to your questions. I have had some
thoughts concerning time and maybe a few clues.
Long ago in a physics class when asked the question "What is Time?" a
stoner girl who was he best friend of a close friend of mine replied:
"A device invented by man for measuring change." This proves beyond the
shadow of a doubt that if you find the right stoner girl at the right
time you could learn alot.
Some ancient philosophers claimed that time was excrement. There is
the perception of representations of time or devices for measuring time
being something processed by humans then discarded.
Perhaps more help , and something I read long ago (yet not quite so
long ago as the physics class) in one of those spiritually oriented
tabloid magazines; was the statement of some guru like fellow that 'it
is important to consider time in things instead of things in time'.
I've had troubles recently with the idm crowd's concepts of tempo. For
instance the idea that something 167 bpm is faster than something 112
bpm. When I think of what goes fast: birds, light , learjets and so
forth I don't imagine them going bangety bang bang or boom boom ( well
, an old fashioned supersonic plane makes a boom , that's just once or
twice(the futuristic ones might make a swoosh) ). It seems that your
concept of 'free time' might mean a state where different awarenesses
of time can exist at the same time without a conflict that could make
them dysfunctional. Someone napping on a plane flight wearing a watch
holding a plant which is growing and metabolizing a gin and tonic.
I know it's annoying to devise one's own definitions for words and
then foist them on other people: it might help to consider 'tempo' in
the same regard as 'temporary' and 'template' . Something to assist in
setting up a series of events. It isn't the setting up of the events
that make the music , it is the memory of those events ; outside of
time , or at least from a different perspective.
I've had a few experiences where I thought something was out of time
and later discovered , when it was processed differently or something
was added to the sound , that it wasn't . I think it is very good to
trust and develop one's instincts in this regard. There was one piece
from Andrea Gabriele's 'Pregnant Series' that had a kind of hip hop
feel yet it paused at certain places and this drove me crackers at
first since a hip hop producer would not pause like that. Then I looked
up the definition of 'apostrophe' and learned it was 'a turning away'
and thought the piece was brilliant. I think it's good sometimes to
trust your feelings , to let things breathe . If you want to make holes
in something perhaps the music is telling you something more relevant
than adhering to a metronomic pulse.
There is a song by La Düsseldorf 'Time' which might address some of
the questions though I 'm not exactly sure. I tried a quick search for
the mp3... don't know where I found it.
-bill
http://chilowethiastoneindex.blogspot.com
http://home.earthlink.net/~billjarboe/sapbb.html
On May 4, 2006, at 4:13 PM, Tim Kugel wrote:
Hi,
Question about time as it relates to gear (MTC, Beat Clock, din sync
and clock @
different ppq...etc.). I realize I don;t know much about this. Is
there a good
online source to study the concept as it relates to gear development?
And, time
is so essential to nature and there are those who feel a natural
(periodicy?)
uh...periodical source is better than a digital one....or at least
different in
some way they hear. Of course we al can hear a quantized "correction."
And
musicans love "free time" and they love "tight" time (right?). So I
was
thinking...would you deifine free time as
a. random fluculations in periodic time....vs less of same?
b. absolute fluculations in periodic time....vs rate/speed of same?
I mean for the purposes of music. Is free time random time to you?
Metaphysical
thoughts? Or - do you think there is only one time?
In a yin yang way - absolute time is freeing. Are wave periods
(albeit over time)
are more accuate from period to period than absolute value bits,
becuase bits
don't dance and have two left feet - schedulers or priorities - is
that it?
Random time is freeing...but is that the same as free time? I know its
just
words....thanks for your thoughts! - tim
ps and great randomizer apps/patches you like that play with time?
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