Archive of the former Yahoo!Groups mailing list: The Mellotron Group

Anyone looking for a one-way ticket to Bollocksville should look nofurther than this:

http://www.songsouponsea.com/Promenade/ChapterOne.html

Seriously. This guy is off his tits. Seriously. This is one of the(many) reasons we felt we had to draw a halt to Elephant Talk.

Mike

markpringnz wrote:

 

He left out I Ching, Godel's theorem and the mandlebrot set.

--- In newmellotrongroup@ yahoogroups. com,Mike Dickson <mike.dickson@ ...> wrote:
>
> Even as a KC fan, this sort of thing makes me ∗despair∗.
>
> From David Cross' diary:
>
> /"I have just scanned through a preview copy of Andrew Keeling's
> 'Musical Guide to Larks' Tongues in Aspic by King Crimson'. Inthis book
> Andrew has applied some powerful analytical tools, deconstructingtonal
> and metrical materials using Bartok's Axis system of tonality, the
> Golden Section and the Fibonacci series. He has also engaged withthe
> ritualistic, occult and mystical components implicit in the album
> through the lens of Jungian psychology and revealed somefascinating
> numerical symbolism (particularly around the number 5) whilstdeveloping
> a finely argued view of the music's place in the spectrum of rock.
> Andrew recognises the developmental importance of LTIA in uniting
> disparate musical features within a shared language as opposed tothe
> polystylism of earlier progressive rock."/
>
> --
> Mike Dickson, Edinburgh
>
> Free Music Project: http://www.mikedick son.org.uk/
> Or http://www.last. fm/music/ Mike+Dickson
> Or http://soundcloud. com/mikedickson
> Or http://www.planetme llotron.com/ revd4.htm# mikedickson
> Or http://www.myspace. com/mellotronwor ks
>