Later on we'll conspire
Since the CPR Railway was purchased by an American Company, we no longer enjoy a free cup of coffee compliments of the Crown…but thankfully we may purchase a $9 coffee voucher card, which allows us 6 cups; a savings of $3 given that each cup is regularly $2. So I sit on a stalled train with a steaming cup of savings and stare out into the still
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My adviser is a philosophy prof. who is interested in memory and improvisation, among other things. So he told me to start with this book called "Music in the Moment" by Jerrold Levinson (Philosophy-Maryland). It's a contested little number because he argues that music is a temporal experience and thus our enjoyment of a piece has nothing to do with the form of the piece as a whole. His 'concatenation' in music is the notion that as listeners we are restricted to the actual note we hear, a short bit before which he calls 'vivid remembering' and a short bit after, which is anticipatory...the combination of these producing 'cogency of sequence.' I don't know if I'm doing this justice- we'll have to chat about it sometime...it's philosophy! The counter-argument concerns the architecture of the piece as a whole as being fundamental to our experience of it.
I agree with Levinson concerning his ideas in terms of melody and harmonic structure, but I take the architectonicist view regarding sonic (volume and texture) and rhythmic properties. Next up I read a book by someone of the latter school, and then I read a bunch of books on memory and cognition (because these writers don't include any data as such), then I synthesize.
Then I publish and get famous.
Then become Governor General.
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I'm certainly ready for something solid.
p.s. I've become obsessed with your proposal...add it to the pile consisting of the barn owl who, according to EEG, hears missing fundamentals.
AAAAMAAZING!!!!!! All this nerdy Star-Trek alternate reality stuff- you're tapping in.
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