RE: creative ennui question/Oblique Strategies.....ragas

[Greg Meredith <gregmer@MICROSOFT.com>]

Rodrigo,

A great resource is Henry Cowell's _New Musical Resources_. This was the
book that inspired Conlon Nancarrow, for example, to do his player piano
stuff. It's a brilliant little book and very accessible.

--greg

        -----Original Message-----
        From:   Kriist@aol.com [SMTP:Kriist@aol.com]
        Sent:   Monday, January 25, 1999 6:56 PM
        To:     Loopers-Delight@annihilist.com
        Subject:        Re: creative ennui question/Oblique
Strategies.....ragas

        In a message dated 1/26/99 12:46:42 AM !!!First Boot!!!,
tcn62@ici.net writes:

        > On the other side I wrote, at random, a key signature or
        >  something such as "D Modal" or a gamelan scale or raga, or "no
pitched
        >  sound, highly rhythmic". (You could also write a color on there,
and use
        Ive been trying to find out about ragas for a bit
        whats a resource for that type of thing?

        and any other obscure leads would be nice

        rodrigo