[spectre] Re: SPECTRE Digest, Vol 114, Issue 30

[Gívan Belá]

strange theories, and super conventional in the end, sounds like a  
schoolbook for alternative nerdy kids
if you are not into the terms this must be ununderstandable to normal  
people anyway, think it is a scam,
despite the authority of the authors, ok they are getting older as  
well, but don't believe this historical
nonsense, neopostmodern potpourri... (bartok with his field recordings  
proved really more influences from
turkish and arabic historical music, and alois might be a little  
miscast here and so much more olala... )


> In the late nineteenth century two facts conspired to change the  
> face of
> music: the collapse of common practice tonality (which overturned the
> certainties underpinning the world of Art music), and the invention  
> of a
> revolutionary new form of memory, sound recording (which redefined and
> greatly empowered the world of popular music). A tidal wave of  
> probes and
> experiments into new musical resources and new organisational  
> practices
> ploughed through both disciplines, bringing parts of each onto shared
> terrain before rolling on to underpin a new aesthetics able to  
> follow sound
> and its manipulations beyond the narrow confines of ‘music’. This  
> series
> tries analytically to trace and explain these developments, and to  
> show
> how, and why, both musical and post-musical genres take the forms  
> they do.
> This first programme sets the scene and investigates early  
> reconsiderations
> of pitch: probes that postulate new scales to be constructed through  
> the
> ever-greater subdivision of the inherited intervals of equal  
> temperament.