Music for photographers

[Juan Valdenebro]

Great post, Roger...

I never heard the version on Isaiah you mention, I'm sorry...

And although some, not most of early polyphony has few, minimal components, you could check that Hilliard version on Perotin and you'd be surprised: sometimes it sounds as if composed by Philip Glass ! I meant minimal just like the 20th century movement... Preponderance of the ambient of music over melodic line, absence of a vertical harmonic struggle, and very short musical cells almost unchanged for minutes with insane repetitive rhythm taking you away from reality... Not for every day, of course... But unique, and I guess useful then to make common people imagine and fear an oppressive God...

I try to imagine those sounds in darkness inside Notre-Dame near one thousand years ago... It brings me a chill.

Cheers,

Juan

 

[Roger Hicks]

I try to imagine those sounds in darkness inside Notre-Dame near one thousand years ago... It brings me a chill.

Dear Juan,

This is something it is all too easy to forget: how and where you hear the music.

Where I come from (Cornwall), for example, folk music isn't something you listen to respectfully: it's something you do when you're drunk.

Likewise, church music in church -- the cold, the smell of centuries-old stone, the mere knowledge that there has been music here for centuries -- is very different from church music in a carpeted living-room.

Or pop music at a concert, perhaps with mood/perception altering chemicals (including alcohol) and (when you're younger) trying to 'pull' a member of the opposite sex... Actually I met my first fiancée at a classical Indian music concert (Ustad Imrat Khan) and first heard Christopher Hogwood play at a concert we attended together.

You have to bring a lot of imagination and memory to any music to begin to appreciate it properly....

Cheers,

R.

 

[chris000]

I try to imagine those sounds in darkness inside Notre-Dame near one thousand years ago... It brings me a chill.

I'm fortunate enough to have heard a fair amount of early music at Salisbury Cathedral - The Sixteen and The Tallis Scholars included - hearing this music in that place is very, very special.

It's a strange thing that, although I am in no way religious, I listen to a great deal of religious music. I think that even though I do not share the faith of the composers, I am deeply moved by what their faith inspired them to produce.

 

[Juan Valdenebro]

I'm fortunate enough to have heard a fair amount of early music at Salisbury Cathedral - The Sixteen and The Tallis Scholars included - hearing this music in that place is very, very special.

It's a strange thing that, although I am in no way religious, I listen to a great deal of religious music. I think that even though I do not share the faith of the composers, I am deeply moved by what their faith inspired them to produce.

A clue: Maybe it's because God remembers you...

A recommendation: Maybe if you ask God if it's true...

Cheers,

Juan

 

[Juan Valdenebro]

Oh, Hogwood's versions...

Adorable!

 

[noah b]

My favorites are, ozma, john coltrane, mogwai, black moth super rainbow, marvin gaye, jay z, ahh the list goes on and on

 

[hamradio]

Some favorites at the moment: Miles Davis, Röyksopp, Portishead, Pete Rock & CL Smooth.