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Database: Laura Cannell On The Mechanics Of Acoustic Instruments, Improvising, And Simple Motifs
“I’m not trying to re-create anything, especially not early music, but I am also attached to the fact that human anatomy and the mechanics of violins and recorders haven’t changed in over a thousand years, so we are inherently connected to the physical feelings and patterns that musicians would have experienced throughout the last millennium.”… Continue reading
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Tuning
Laurent de La Hyre, Allegory of Music (1649) Before a concert, the orchestra tunes. The oboist blows a sustained reference pitch at A 440 Hz to which the string, woodwind, and brass players adjust. The musicians tune their instruments to compensate for environmental changes in temperature and humidity. Before the music has even begun, each… Continue reading
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Resonant Thoughts: John Ashbery’s “A Wave” (1984)
“The truth is discovered, a patch of it, dried, glazed by the sun, It will just hang on, in its own infamy, humility. No one Will be better for it, but things can’t get any worse. Just keep playing, mastering as you do the stepInto disorder this one meant. Don’t you see It’s all we… Continue reading
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