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Earlier today I posted Milton Babbitt’s “Who Cares if You Listen?” as an example of an avant-garde attitude that I don’t care for. As an antidote to that, here is a beautiful article by the visionary avant-garde composer Edgard Varèse. To me, this writing is an expression of hope, passion, creativity, and only the slightest bit of [...]
I have more thoughts on this that I haven’t sorted out (and all the responses – many interesting one – I got on the original post were at Facebook/MySpace), but in the meanwhile, here’s a fascinating Wikipedia entry on “Timbral Listening”: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timbral_Listening Timbral Listening From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Timbral Listening is the process of actively [...]
