Re: Asian culture

[Daryl Shawn <highhorse@mhorse.com>]

thanks Andy...! I won't add anything else, but...yeah.

One of my favorite traditional pipa pieces, a millenia or two old:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ZmAgFyVo48

Daryl Shawn
www.swanwelder.com
www.chinapaintingmusic.com

> Before Western influence, and still surviving in some places Asian 
> music incorporates innovation in a natural way. There's
> no need to react against a tradition that isn't hidebound.
>
> For most of the innovations of the West, I think it's possible to
> find examples of Asian music that did it first, and did it better.
> Ambient, Minimalism, pure sound, rhythmic complication, microtones,
> drone, and just plain "that's not music".
>
> ..and plenty of Asian music that Western theory just doesn't understand.