Re: Musical languistics - Mass Reply

In a message dated 2003:06:09 01:51:58 PM, Padraic (elemtilas@YAHOO.COM)
writes:

>yscreus il "J Y S Czhang":
>
>>     IMHO it seems that cats like music a quite
>> bit.
>> Ferinstanz, recently, Luc the Black Cat - who
>> has adopted me - got rather
>> pissed-off at me when I turned off a
>> compilation tape of microtonal
>> music then relaxed when I turned it back on
>> again.
>
>Well, you disrupted the Cat in his attempt to
>relax with some nice music. That is a Nono! Bad!
>Bad human! As I'm sure you're aware, the Cat will
>express his Displeasure!
    No friggin' joke...  ::rubs shin area with scars::

>>     I know of a harpist, an acoustic guitarist
>> and a cellist who also are
>> adopted by cats and these cats are inordinately
>> fond of these musical
>> instruments' sounds/timbres (BTW these cats
>> were not exactly kittens
>> when they choose their humans either).
>
>Mine has been known to hop up on the keyboard. I
>tried telling him the Cat's Fugue has already
>been composed, but that didn't phase him!
    LMAO

> He seems to like the quiet of the clavichord, but at
>a little over a stone, he's just to heavy for the
>action!!, so I have to shift him to a more
>instrument friendly location.
    Put him on a diet, LOL.

>>     On the other hand, a sax/bagpipeplayer and
>> an accordionist/harmonica-player report their
>> cat-companions scramble as
>> far from these particular sounds as
>> felinely possible (I don't exactly blame 'em
>> either).
>
>Hm. Depends on the pipes! Some are smooth and
>sweet sounding. I suspect the piper in question
>blasts away at the acoustic universe with one of
>those HGPs?
    Oh yes. He is _tryin'_ to play bad-ass punkjazz on them
scary things from some Scottish version of Hell.
He's been evicted from 2 places in the past 4 months!
He now shares a house with a Satanist priestess,
whose cat - despite the household's *evilness* -
runs like a bat outta Hell upon perceivin'
the paint-peelin', window-rattlin' sounds of that
HGP, the musical world's equivalent to the
military world's RPG (Rocket Propelled Grenade).

---
Hanuman Zhang, the "Yves Klein Bleu Aardvark,"
musical mad scientist (no, I don't wanna take over the world, just the sound
spectrum...)

    "What strange risk of hearing can bring sound to music - a hearing whose
obligation awakens a sensibility so new that it is forever a unique, new-born,
anti-death surprise, created now and now and now. .. a hearing whose moment
in time is always daybreak."  - Lucia Dlugoszewski

"The wonderousness of the human mind is too great to be transferred into
music only by 7 or 12 elements of tone steps in one octave." - shakuhachi master
Masayuki Koga

"There's a rabbinical tradition that the music in heaven will be microtonal"
-annotative interpretation of Schottenstein Tehillim, 92:4, the verse being:
"Upon a ten-stringed * instrument and upon lyre, with singing accompanied by
harp." [* utilizing new tones]

NADA BRAHMA - Sanskrit, "sound [is the] Godhead"

"God utters me like a word containing a partial thought of himself." -Thomas
Merton

LILA - Sanskrit, "divine play/sport/whimsy" - "the universe is what happens
when God wants to play" - "joyous exercise of spontaneity involved in the art
of creation"

...improvisation is about change, about flux rather than stasis. ... you have
to be aware of the fact that improvisation is about a constant change. -
Steve Beresford

improvisation: "a process of liberation, a working around the assumptions
that define our civilization, and the results are open-ended." - John Berndt