[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]
Re: On "learned" A/P, lattice / grid, and what it means
I am not proposing that Mozart's melodies are accidental, or that
Ulysses was written based upon Markov chains and information theory. I
don't think the "strings of pitches" was attributed to Mozart; more
likely, "pitches of strings".
Until I was 40, Joyce's Ulysses, when I tried to read the book, seemed
to be "a string of words". Now through (what I call) 'unmediated
perception', I hear it entirely differently, and most of it makes
sense. For me it is now the same for the Berg Lyric Suite, or
Stockhausen's Gruppen.
My point is partly that (1) I can now organize these sounds I hear,
and (2) this may not be the same way in which someone else, or the
composer has organized them. Was it not Copernicus who said that
"chaos is but unperceived order". In watching a 100-car freight train
go by (the strings of gritches from the Rose of Castille, cf Ulysses),
I may not be able to perceive the structure that was used to sequence
them, but I do not attribute this sequence to accident.
My proposition starts to seem to be that the perception (sic) of the
order, is related to memory, and that if the memory does not have
enough 'experience', the stimulus will be moved from one category to
another in order to make sense, or it will not "make sense" (carry
meaning); this is after all -- as far I as I have read on this list --
about what it all means.
"The fault, dear Brutus, lies not in our stars, but in ourselves ...”
Freud believed this, but Oedipus had learned differently.
Kevin
On 2009, Sep 3, at 10:53 AM, Eliot Handelman wrote:
Kevin Austin wrote:
My view is that perception (and the organization of perception) is
uniquely individual. In this way, it may be that I have an
experience called "melody" of which someone with AP has no concept
of, in the way I perceive it.
Sure, but the point is that if APers don't hear a melody
relationally, then why should they compose relationally? Is the
proposal that the structures of Mozart's melodies are accidental,
because all he ever heard were strings of pitches?
-- eliot