This stuff ,http://www.songsouponsea.com/Promenade/ChapterOne.html, is just precious Mike. What a great find! The day is now sunny......
fritz
-----Original Message-----
From: Mike Dickson <mike.dickson@gmail.com>
To: newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Sun, Jan 10, 2010 2:57 am
Subject: Re: [newmellotrongroup] Re: [OT] Despair
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.mikedickson.org.uk/
> Or http://www.last.fm/music/Mike+Dickson
> Or http://soundcloud.com/mikedickson
> Or http://www.planetmellotron.com/revd4.htm#mikedickson
> Or http://www.myspace.com/mellotronworks
>Message
Re: [newmellotrongroup] Re: [OT] Despair
2010-01-11 by fdoddy@aol.com