tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9617011.post6318935039121325218..comments2024-03-27T23:45:06.093+01:00Comments on Renewable Music: Sonic obsessions, revisted (7)Daniel Wolfhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09093101325234464791noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9617011.post-34699903456191787262011-01-04T04:58:21.981+01:002011-01-04T04:58:21.981+01:00This brought to mind Robert Erickson's Summer ...This brought to mind Robert Erickson's <i>Summer Music</i> (1974), for solo violin and prerecorded tape. The recorded sound is of a brook; I'm sorry I don't have more specific information at hand; Erickson passed that sound through filters to accentuate certain pitches. <i>Summer Music</i>is truly minimal; it contains long silences and longer sections with very few pitches. As I wrote in my biography of Erickson, “for over three minutes, at the center of teh piece, the violin plays only the pitch C in various octaves. For a minute and a half only <i>middle</i> C is played.” But the result, combined with the water sounds, is nostalgic and hypnotic. There is something essentially grounding, I think, to the human listener, in the sound of running water.<br /><br />By the way the Irwin garden is at the West Los Angeles Getty Center, not the one in Malibu.Charles Sherehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10480432901356490235noreply@blogger.com