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Sudden Music - Improvisation, Sound, Nature (Paperback)
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Sudden Music - Improvisation, Sound, Nature (Paperback)
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Music, said Zen patriarch Hui Neng, ""is a means of rapid
transformation."" It takes us home to a natural world that
functions outside of logic, where harmony and dissonance, tension
and release work in surprising ways. Weaving memoir, travelogue,
and philosophical reflection, Sudden Music presents a musical way
of knowing that can closely engage us with the world and open us to
its spontaneity. Improvisation is everywhere, says David
Rothenberg, and his book is a testament to its creative, surprising
power. Linking in original ways the improvised in nature,
composition, and instrumentation, Rothenberg touches on a wide
range of music traditions, from Rob Nachman's stories to John
Cage's aleatory. Writing not as a critic but as a practicing
musician, Rothenberg draws on his own extensive travels to
Scandinavia, India, and Nepal to describe from close observation
the improvisational traditions that inform and inspire his own art.
The accompanying audio disc features eleven original compositions
by Rothenberg, none of which have been previously released on CD.
Included are a duet with clarinet and white-crested laughing bird,
and another duet with clarinet and Samchillian TipTipTip
Cheeepeeeee, an electronic computer instrument played by its
inventor Leon Gruebaum. Also featured are multicultural works
blending South Indian veena and Turkish g-clarinet with spoken text
from the Upanishads; a piece commissioned by the Tanglewood
Contemporary Music Festival with readings of texts by E. O. Wilson
accompanied by clarinet and electronics; and improvisations based
upon Tibetan Buddhist music, Japanese shakuhachi music, and the
image of a black crow on white snow. Sudden Music is a concise and
delicate work of beauty. It will help all readers experience the
world as a musical place, full of wonderful events that come out of
nowhere to create a strange and rhythmic harmony.
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Imprint: |
University of Georgia Press
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Country of origin: |
United States |
Release date: |
February 2016 |
Authors: |
David Rothenberg
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Dimensions: |
216 x 140 x 10mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Paperback
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Pages: |
232 |
ISBN-13: |
978-0-8203-4912-1 |
Categories: |
Books
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LSN: |
0-8203-4912-7 |
Barcode: |
9780820349121 |
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