Korgscrew
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Posted: Mar. 31 2008, 19:10 |
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The two albums are indeed based on the same concept (well...Mike's description refers to it, at least - from what he's said recently, it seems more like he just stuck the title on it after he wrote it). I would think that it's not a case of Mike taking the concept from Neil Ardley, but rather that both of them share a common inspiration.
As Harmono has said, the concept of the music of the spheres is an ancient concept which goes back at least as far as Pythagoras. David Bedford made a reference to it in one of his more recent works by using a chord which had been calculated based on the work of Johannes Kepler in the 1600s - I'd imagine there's a stronger case for Mike having come into contact with the concept there, though really, my first guess would be that he read about it in a book or on the internet.
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