tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8827040061563065922.post4014844653613276924..comments2024-03-18T14:05:44.909-05:00Comments on The Music Salon: Metric TexturesBryan Townsendhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09482696991279345516noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8827040061563065922.post-74420496716562962302017-06-04T18:27:07.446-05:002017-06-04T18:27:07.446-05:00Yes, Sabicas makes most guys around today sound pr...Yes, Sabicas makes most guys around today sound pretty tame. Great guitarist. And I can't imagine a bulerías played on anything but a guitar...<br /><br />Will, there is absolutely no requirement that you like Steve Reich! Someone has to dislike him, and I guess it's you. But I think you might want to give one of his later works a try if you have not already. The two I would recommend, that might not sound like a horrible experiment are The Desert Music and Tehillim. Link below:<br /><br />https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fiaTvR9sFX8Bryan Townsendhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09482696991279345516noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8827040061563065922.post-83111950315898577392017-06-04T12:33:06.041-05:002017-06-04T12:33:06.041-05:00Will I ever like Steve Reich? With every listen, ...Will I ever like Steve Reich? With every listen, I move closer to answering "probably not. He seems to always be imagining a new device, and then presenting that naked device as if it were real music. It isn't. Neither of these 2 Reich pieces are even listenable to me --I had to jump forward a few times to sample his progression without enduring its torturous development. Like a spiritual toxin, these sounds drive out all interior life and destroy any sense of freedom or living creativity. I would appreciate these experiments if they were kept in the composer's laboratory where concepts and elements can be purified and technically studied, but, in the same way that technical writing is NOT literature, neither is this music. Let the calculator compose it, let the machine play it, and let the computermachine listen to it. Only a thing that can't hear and feel could tolerate this stuff being audibly expressed. Maybe as graphs there would be something interesting here, I don't know.Will Wilkinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01997868915978439364noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8827040061563065922.post-89792931957802745252017-06-04T12:09:55.381-05:002017-06-04T12:09:55.381-05:00Holy cow, that guitarist is AMAZING!!! And the pi...Holy cow, that guitarist is AMAZING!!! And the piece, Bulerias, is obviously a top-rate guitar composition that, with a virtuosic player, brings out the full capabilities of the instrument. Although pieces can and often are transcribed for instruments other than the original intention of the composer, because different instruments are played and tuned differently, a properly-composed piece will take full account of the peculiarities of the instrument and thus render a transcription less convincing or less possible to play. Obviously there are exceptions, for example I've read a lot of baroque pieces don't even specify the instrument.<br /><br />Will Wilkinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01997868915978439364noreply@blogger.com