tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9617011.post4928831323320351616..comments2024-03-27T23:45:06.093+01:00Comments on Renewable Music: N is for Non-StopDaniel Wolfhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09093101325234464791noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9617011.post-43522201258457697532014-07-13T15:40:04.447+02:002014-07-13T15:40:04.447+02:00That's a really interesting observation. Does...That's a really interesting observation. Does not having enough visual stimuli affect this? Or is it just the intensity of the focus on music alone? I actually find musical time to be quite elastic -- some music moves at the pace of a glacier and other music just zooms by too fast. Robert Erickson talked about "taffy time". Also, I find too much contemporary music is written with a basic pulse of mm 60 (the tyranny of the clock) and moves at such a ponderous speed that it gets boring, but at 80 or more as a basic pulse for events to bop on by, you can have both slow and fast tempi that sound good by subdividing or multiplying this pulse. (I suspect that this is because 80 is closer to our inner clocks.)Daniel Wolfhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09093101325234464791noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9617011.post-72985626188179740512014-07-13T15:25:14.530+02:002014-07-13T15:25:14.530+02:00I´ve always wondered why is musical time so slow -...I´ve always wondered why is musical time so slow - while I can sit through a rather bad 90 minutes movie in a cinema without any kind of physical problems, when I listen to a (very great) piece of music of similar duration, I always feel some kind of discomfort (my back aches, I need to scratch here and there (and even there...), I´d like to stretch, the hall feels too warm... whatever). This happens all the time, no matter how good the music is and how comfortable is the seating. I would say that listening concentratedly to a 60 minutes piece of music is like watching 3 movies in one go or something... It´s physical, the time in music simply unfolds much slower.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04526309762592653878noreply@blogger.com