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- catalog abstract """Music," said Zen patriarch Hui Neng, "is a means of rapid transformation." It takes us home to a natural world that functions outside of logic, where harmony and dissonance, tension and release work in surprising ways. Weaving memoir, travelogue, and philosophical reflection, Sudden Music presents a musical way of knowing that can closely engage us with the world and open us to its spontaneity." "Improvisation is everywhere, says David Rothenberg, and his book is a testament to its creative, surprising power. Linking in original ways the improvised in nature, composition, and instrumentation, Rothenberg touches on a wide range of music traditions, from Reb Nachman's stories to John Cage's aleatory. Writing not as a critic but as a practicing musician, Rothenberg draws on his own extensive travels to Scandinavia, India, and Nepal to describe from close observation the improvisational traditions that inform and inspire his own art." "The accompanying audio disc features eleven original compositions by Rothenberg, none previously released on CD. Included are a duet with clarinet and white-crested laughing bird and a duet with clarinet and Samchillian TipTipTip Cheeepeeeee, and electronic computer instrument played by its inventor, Leon Gruenbaum. Also featured are multicultural works blending South Indian veena and Turkish G-clarinet with spoken text from the Upanishads; a piece commissioned by the Tanglewood Contemporary Music Festival with readings of texts by E.O. Wilson accompanied by clarinet and electronics; and improvisations based on Tibetan Buddhist music, Japanese shakuhachi music, and the image of a black crow on white snow."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b12467188.
- catalog created "c2002.".
- catalog date "2002".
- catalog date "c2002.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c2002.".
- catalog description """Music," said Zen patriarch Hui Neng, "is a means of rapid transformation." It takes us home to a natural world that functions outside of logic, where harmony and dissonance, tension and release work in surprising ways. Weaving memoir, travelogue, and philosophical reflection, Sudden Music presents a musical way of knowing that can closely engage us with the world and open us to its spontaneity." "Improvisation is everywhere, says David Rothenberg, and his book is a testament to its creative, surprising power. Linking in original ways the improvised in nature, composition, and instrumentation, Rothenberg touches on a wide range of music traditions, from Reb Nachman's stories to John Cage's aleatory. Writing not as a critic but as a practicing musician, Rothenberg draws on his own extensive travels to Scandinavia, India, and Nepal to describe from close observation the improvisational traditions that inform and inspire his own art." "The accompanying audio disc features eleven original compositions by Rothenberg, none previously released on CD. Included are a duet with clarinet and white-crested laughing bird and a duet with clarinet and Samchillian TipTipTip Cheeepeeeee, and electronic computer instrument played by its inventor, Leon Gruenbaum. Also featured are multicultural works blending South Indian veena and Turkish G-clarinet with spoken text from the Upanishads; a piece commissioned by the Tanglewood Contemporary Music Festival with readings of texts by E.O. Wilson accompanied by clarinet and electronics; and improvisations based on Tibetan Buddhist music, Japanese shakuhachi music, and the image of a black crow on white snow."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Book contents. Chance designs -- One note history -- Roads, music, rapture -- The shadow is what you hear -- A sense of soundscape -- Four-fifths of the world cannot be wrong -- the thought and the story -- The instrument includes it -- Sound changes.".
- catalog description "CD contents. Se Lo -- Inclusive gazes -- Blue Cliff cases -- Exile -- Night train shadow -- White crested laughter -- In the rainforest -- They say -- Crow on snow -- Samchillian duet -- The hundred thousand sounds (according to our study).".
- catalog description "Discography : p. 209-212.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references.".
- catalog extent "214 p. ;".
- catalog identifier "0820323187 (alk. paper)".
- catalog issued "2002".
- catalog issued "c2002.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Athens : University of Georgia Press,".
- catalog subject "781.3/6 21".
- catalog subject "Improvisation (Music)".
- catalog subject "ML3877 .R68 2002".
- catalog subject "Music Philosophy and aesthetics.".
- catalog subject "Nature (Aesthetics)".
- catalog tableOfContents "Book contents. Chance designs -- One note history -- Roads, music, rapture -- The shadow is what you hear -- A sense of soundscape -- Four-fifths of the world cannot be wrong -- the thought and the story -- The instrument includes it -- Sound changes.".
- catalog tableOfContents "CD contents. Se Lo -- Inclusive gazes -- Blue Cliff cases -- Exile -- Night train shadow -- White crested laughter -- In the rainforest -- They say -- Crow on snow -- Samchillian duet -- The hundred thousand sounds (according to our study).".
- catalog title "Sudden music : improvisation, sound, nature / David Rothenberg.".
- catalog type "CD-ROMs.".
- catalog type "text".