Re: love, vision, and archetypes

[Matthias Grob <matthias@grob.org>]

>  >>I sent one C90 cassette of sexy loops to my nephew ...
>>  lucky one... and the rest of the world? How about some CD-Rs :-) ?
>
>I have made a promise to myself and others: I am working on a book ("Play
>Guitar By Ear," which is a story in itself) and as soon as I am done with
>it, I am going to return to playing in public, including looping. Once I
>start that up, I will undoubtedly assemble some CD's. And you folks at LD
>will hear about it as soon as it happens!
>>
>>  Besides, I am rather looking for another kinds of associations:
>>
>  > God: a deep drone
>[agreed! Perhaps natural overtone series brought forward a bit]

exactly! all the richness in one

>  > The Healing Energy: quirling mixture of rather high pitched quick 
>melodies
>[I like this!]

This was an inspiration I had once during giving Reiki. Since then I 
am trying to reproduce it. Simultaneously I saw two snakes winding 
(Spiral!) arround a post.

>  > to Give is a melody down
>[thought-provoking. I will try and see how it feels]

This one I discovered during piece meditations of Brahma Kumaris. I 
observed I used to play it when the lady was speaking abou it...

>  > to Grow: a melody up [also thought-provoking. Must try]
>  > to Work: steady beat
>[I like to focus on a heartbeat-related pulse. Internal, focused 
>work at 60 bpm; brain work at 80-92 with lots of sixteenth note 
>activity; physical work/dance at 120-140; etc.]

right. not every beat means work.
Lightness: rather quick and light beat, often 3/4
Brutality: slow heavy beat


>  > Love: romantic melodic
>>  Tension: disharmony
>>  Hate: free tonal melody [i disagree. Only if it "upsets" a tonality, 
>and
>even then, one of my favorite loop strategies is to build a tonality and
>shift to another right on top of it. Moments of atonal wandering feel 
>like a
>kind of questioning, not hate]

true!
Doubt: atonal wandering

Fun: staccato melody with mixed narow and big jumps in it

>  > Domination: a fat harmony

>the music has some absolute meanings to it. We got global musical
>>  archetypes. Lets use them to communicate!
>Can't wait to hear from others on this!

yes, we can collect a "dictionary" :-)

Serious: the more concrete the subject become, the more dificult the 
discriptions.
To prevent from somone saying: "this is bull shit, I can express that 
in a completely different way": there certainly are many ways. To 
list up some may help some musicians to broaden their expressions, 
maybe more efficiently than scores would...

>dB
>Douglas Baldwin, coyote-at-large
>coyotelk@optonline.net


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