Re: OT: Musical languistics

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From: "Samuel Rivier" <samuelriv@...>


> Can animals like apes and dolphins (and, to a more
> familiar extent, cats and dogs) interpret emotion in
> music, or does that have to be complemented with
> conditioned experience?
In a message dated 2003:06:01 10:48:11 AM, scaves@FRONTIERNET.NET writes:

>I think complemented with conditioned experience.  I really don't know.
>Animals respond to music, I'm told.
"We cannot doubt that animals both love and practice music. That is evident.
But it seems their musical system differs from ours. It is another school...We
are not familiar with their didactic works. Perhaps they don't have any."  -
Erik Satie

"Among the artistic hierarchy, the birds are probably the greatest musicians
to inhabit our planet." - Olivier Messiaen


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Hanuman Zhang, the "Yves Klein Bleu Aardvark"

Brett Campbell writes:
>>"After prolonged exposure to the rich, kaleidoscopic world of microtones,
>>returning to equal-tempered music was for me like going back to black and
>>white after spending a weekend immersed in color".
    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
=)"  - one annotative interpretation of Talmudic writings

NADA BRAHMA - Sanskrit, "sound [is the] Godhead"
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 is "a process of liberation, a working around the assumptions
that define our civilization, and the results are open-ended." - John Berndt