Alan D
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Posted: Feb. 29 2008, 16:12 |
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Quote (Korgscrew @ Feb. 29 2008, 17:49) | David Bedford made an attempt at the music of the spheres concept ... he based a lot of the harmonies on "Kepler's Chord", which has notes calculated from the angular velocities of the planets of the solar system. I remember it having a very eery, otherworldly sound, which may have biased me - my idea of what the music of the spheres might sound like would be much closer to that. |
Yes, me too. MO hasn't said anything anywhere about using Kepler's stuff as far as I know - has he? But certainly that's where the idea of planets and mathematics would take you, if you really followed it through. I suspect the whole thing is more personal for Mike - very much his take on where he imagines his music coming from, rather than some actual mathematical relationships like Kepler's.
Incidentally, the same issue of Classic FM reviews Jon Lord's Durham Concerto. There's a bit more of a shot at describing the music than in the MOTS review, though it strikes me as another milk-and-watery affair, really. You wouldn't think, from reading its bland assertion ('a very agreeable composition' ), that the music was powerful enough to evoke tears in places. Score: three out of five again. And guess what: same reviewer!
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