Login  Register

There is style and then there is mood

Posted by jon zingale on Feb 26, 2021; 6:40am
URL: http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/There-is-style-and-then-there-is-mood-tp7600885.html

I spent the working day listening to Arvo Pärt and now I am experiencing a not unfamiliar experience. Voicings relegated to the back of my mind auto-hallucinate music not in the style, but in the mood of Pärt. There is no particular melody or theme but instead simply, and non-specifically, a feeling. If pressed to denotationally represent the experience, I would find the direct translation to tintinnabuli, to arpeggiated tonic triads, and counter-stepwise diatonic motion. Such a representation, however, would be secondary to the actual experience, to the experience of wistful longing, endless expanses; the intensity of all-consuming and stoic loneliness. What is this that I produce?

Sent from the Friam mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

- .... . -..-. . -. -.. -..-. .. ... -..-. .... . .-. .
FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv
Zoom Fridays 9:30a-12p Mtn GMT-6  bit.ly/virtualfriam
un/subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com
FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/
archives: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/