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March 08, 2009
Aunty Gann
New Aunts by Kyle Gann must qualify as one of the loveliest pieces that I have heard in a long time. While I've always had a soft-spot for out-of-tuneness in music, I don't think I have the patience to organize my wavering pitches in a methodical way. I prefer to leave such things up to chance, choosing instruments that cannot be tuned (like a toy piano) or introducing out-of-tuneness without requiring the forethought of scales (like Alvin Lucier). What just intonation does so well however is to remind us of the fiction that is octave equivalence, and more than that, that sounds have an absolute value apart from their relationships. Just like human beings, essentially alone even though we try so hard all our lives to define ourselves in terms of the company of others.4px 0pt 0pt; float: left;">
(Hat-tip: Aworks)
Originally from Theater of Found Sounds, ReBlogged by newmusicrebloggers on Mar 8, 2009 at 12:52 PM