Re: new lingo

[Paul Greenstein <paul@ubiq.co.uk>]

Perhaps there is a musical analogue to this - improvising musicians 
often tend to unconsciously fall back on repetitive patterns (nothing 
to do with looping), which are 'tried and tested' i.e. confortable 
idioms, riffs, chord structures etc. I would suggest that this is the 
musical equivalent of verbal filler - phrases like 'now what I mean', 
and another one which I've noticed recently in UK 'yeh, no' preceding a 
statement...

I went to see Robert Fripp play at the Purcell Rooms in London a few 
years back. He was playing for free in the foyer, so I went for 2 days 
running. The thing that hit me most was that he managed to almost 
completely avoid the standard riffing and cliche that is so much part 
of a musicians language. He did start playing what could loosely be 
called a standard 'guitar solo' over one loop, but it was a momentary 
lapse. It takes a lot of  discipline to avoid this kind of stuff, both 
verbally and musically.

Paul


On Monday, October 20, 2003, at 04:07  pm, Aptrev@aol.com wrote:

>
> In a message dated 10/20/03 2:26:10 AM, spgoodman@earthlight.net 
> writes:
>
> << Anyway!  Ya know what I'm sayin'?  Okay. >>
>
> In a way, these are like loops eh? A word like ok or anyway after 
> every other
> sentence would be sort of like a "glitch" loop.
> Rhythmic iterative patterns perform a linking function that are part 
> of an
> individual's sense of flow. Partly it may be a fear of using 
> pause/silence for
> emphasis, so the repeated words are there for continuity and 
> sustaining the
> thought constructs as well as "holding the floor".
>
> There is an artist who is using software to remove language from 
> speech so
> that you can hear what is between the words : sighs, clicks, rumbles 
> etc. These
> also appear in repetitive looping patterns. I don't have the url handy 
> but it
> is called Language Removal Services and there are audio clips, a 
> search at
> www.npr.org or google should bring it up.
>
> BobC
>
> visit: www.cdbaby.com/rpcollier
>
>
>
> The Thumb Piano Project
> www.mp3.com/thumbpianoproject
> http://trundlebox.iuma.com
> http://brokenaxe.iuma.com
>
>