Classical Music influences thread

["Joe Dallarda" <jdallar@hotmail.com>]

George Crumbs "Black Angels" as performed by Kronos Quartet, which was 
"inspired" by the war in Vietman, never ceases to have a powerful effect 
on 
me- it has the sound of someone shredding the physical body to get at some 
kind of primal core of being held within, a kind of excorcism and 
catharsis 
of a soul in trauma, trying to break free of itself, violently, 
apocalypticaly- heroicly.
Some works of art (not just music, of course,) are just so fertile 
somehow, 
like worlds you can travel in which somehow create a kind of
cloud of abstract (oh no, there it goes again), half-formulated ideas, 
images, etc, which give rise to more ideas, more images, more music.

About a year ago or so I went to see a friend/musical collaborator who was 
performing with raz mesinai of subdub and badawi. at one point during the 
show some music was performed which made use of sampled (themselves, not 
other musicians)/looped violins and cellos, treated with fx at times, that 
really blew me away. anyone know of any experimenatl electro-acoustic/loop 
oriented music/musicians in which the principle instruments are classical, 
violins, violas etc, that they would recommend? You know, not steve reich, 
philip glass repetitive structure composing technique kind of stuff, but 
music in which the musicians make use of loopers, electronic sound design, 
etc.

Also, not that the current thread is running out of steam, but how about a 
"world" music influences thread? I've gotten ideas about looping (maybe 
just 
philosophical, maybe applicable also)from south asian, balinese, african, 
and middle eastern music in particular. its really struck me many times 
how 
strange it is (maybe it isnt) that when listening to, just for sake of 
example, a recording of moroccan folk musicians, the "tendency" to 
repetitive, yet evolving structures, reminds me of loop-based electronic 
music.

you see this in particular in religious, or mystically oriented music, so 
its really, really interesting to me that so many people on our list, when 
gettin' kinda personal about their feelings about the kind of music they 
do, 
use almost religious, definitly mystical terms.
peace,
j.




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