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last year my tutor at college insisted i checkout a musician called 'methian' or some similar spelling. never did find a trace of this guy, but apparently uses bird song as the structure to his tracks. its been bugging me since igot a new job starting 6am so i walk in the early morning sun, listening in aour at this same bird in the same tree every day singing outrageous headfuk tunes does anyone know who im talking about?? oh and scanner too - is he goof? |
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I've never heard of him, but I've heard of someone - the name have escaped me - mic'ing up plants and vegetables and using the sounds to make music. Apparently plants are very sensitive to anything going on in the immediate environment and he could tell that from the recordings. If someone walks into the room the plants react in ways that generate a lot of sound. Unfortunately he can never play in front of a live audience, cos the plants - he said - would go bonkers :) I think I read about him in The Wire, years ago.... |
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that sounds cool. i have become obsessed by birds though - how they fly in flocks and who decideds where they go - and this urge to chirp incessently over and over, but i am up in the clouds i guess |
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The guy is Olivier Messiaen. Check the piece 'le réveil des oiseaux' for the bird melodies. |
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cheers str_ph |
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In His Own Words The music of our time is quite a natural continuation of the music of the past; doubtless there are changes, but no rupture. I've used bird song in two different ways: either by trying to outline the most exact musical portrait possible, or by treating the birdsong as malleable material (think of the electronic manipulation our present-day researchers indulge in). There aren't any modal composers, tonal composers, or serial composers. There is only music that is colored and music that isn't. I feel that rhythm is the primordial and perhaps essential part of music; I think it most likely existed before melody and harmony, and in fact I have a secret preference for this element. I'm not a theorist - only a believer, a believer dazzled by the infinity of God! Nature is primarily a great force in which to lose oneself, a sort of nirvana, but above all it's marvelous teacher, and this last aspect has been very useful to my work. definately looking into this!! |
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what about scanner? doesnt he use telephone converstaion as material or am i thinking someone else? |
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