MU121 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Tim Leary, Sound Collage, Plunderphonics
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Musique concrete (mixture of acoustically produced sounds and electronically produced) Staying on one chord idea comes from indian music. Ravi shankar said real indian classical music should not have moving chords . Took time signatures, drum playing style, lack of chordal music, drone from indian music. Lyrics turn off your mind, relax, float down the stream from american version of tibetan book of the dead. Leads soul from this life to next life. Tim leary wrote american version called the psychedelic experience . Instead of text about reincarnation, learly wrote it about book that guides lsd trip. Tomorrow never knows meant to sound like an lsd trip. Thought a religious experience could be found through psychotropic drug use. Engagement in eastern religions but in very self centred, western, hippie culture way. June 1967: sgt pepper"s lonely hearts club band. Some songs had to bounce between three 4-tracks. First record to be printed with lyrics on sleeve.
