MUS 114 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Frank Zappa, Richard Strauss, Gong
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Brings you to the edge of your listening ability. Things like fish, dna sequences, spiders, shells, etc. were named after him. Edgard varese (1883-1965: french, spent time in paris and new york, background in science, particularly physics and mathematics. Into davinci readings of sounds and auditory physics. Early theories of psychoacoustics: friends with satie, debussy, richard strauss, busoni, picasso, trotsky. Took inspiration from sounds of city life: music: the corporealization of the intelligence that is in sounds (hoene-wronski) The embodiment; how the sounds become integrated with our bodies. How we perceive bodies in the sounds themselves. Different from art as aesthetics and personal expression: music as spatial; bodies of sound moving in space, hyperprism (1924) Winds: flute doubling piccolo, piccolo clarinet, 3 horns, a tenor and a bass trombone. The ensemble consists of 13 musicians playing a total of 37 percussion instruments.
