I'm interested in your thoughts, was the experiment a success? Are you happy with the results? What did you learn from it? --I-------- Sun, sun, sun Burn, burn, burn Soon, soon, soon Moon, moon, moon
@Jinx: Overall, I think it was a success, as much of a success as a no-tech atonal diatonic harmonica improvisation can be. I am a fan of Cecil Taylor, Ornette Coleman and Charles Ives, and am interested in dissonance as a musical value; there is very little of it done with diatonic harmonicas. This is a meager contribution. Thanks for listening and asking. What did you think? ---------- Ted Burke http://youtube.com/watch?v=-VPUDjK-ibQ&feature=relmfu
For me personally, dissonance is easy to achieve and of little value, unless it is to contrast and highlight harmony and melody. It sounds like the soundtrack of madness. ---------- Lucky Lester
Dissonance is easy to get, but there is a way to use it artfully. harmony and melody are not required for aesthetic worth. Not that I am making any big claim for what I've done here, but there is value and much excitement in things that scrape, bang, grate, rasp, rattle and clash, done the right way. Here is another piece i did, a little more complete than this morning's impromtu. ---------- Ted Burke http://youtube.com/watch?v=-VPUDjK-ibQ&feature=relmfu
I just came in from outside, and the were all these bats. They were dropping caterpillars on the ground and they spelled out words! And I saw a cat barking. It looked at me and said that it was going to bark. ---------- Sun, sun, sun Burn, burn, burn Soon, soon, soon Moon, moon, moon
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I know there's some real potential here. Long live Cecil! Or maybe the potential has been/is being realized on the spot! Yes! That's it! Carry on McBurke!
