tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28154988.post5491727976515107383..comments2024-03-26T01:59:52.206-04:00Comments on Just outside: Brian Olewnickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08567239067604835372noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28154988.post-19491006359570048202011-03-21T07:51:21.368-04:002011-03-21T07:51:21.368-04:00[Could not find a way to leave a private comment, ...[Could not find a way to leave a private comment, so please pardon]<br />I am sorry the reference was too strong to gamelan music for you. It was unintended, but i can see why the places with hockets especially might give that impression. Fair enough. But i think Indonesians would be at a lost with this music too, not finding much they are familiar with. I had no desire to imitate what they do here. When i have, it sounds quite different. Perhaps being in Australia, It being the neighboring country. Far from England and the US .Kraig Gradyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04234783065045199904noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28154988.post-54188329384555763622011-03-17T11:11:54.717-04:002011-03-17T11:11:54.717-04:00Wouldn't, for example, most gamelan ensembles ...Wouldn't, for example, most gamelan ensembles be "finely tuned"--maybe not is a Western sense, but certainly in a Balinese or Javanese one? Maybe not! If so, my apologies.<br /><br />I do think there's a certain trap, attractive though it may be, when artists from one culture seek to (overly) imitate the work of another. I wouldn't make a hard and fast rule, but there seems to be a fine line between influence (unavoidable) and emulation. And, to my ears, the most worthwhile results have been achieved by those who acknowledge the influence then consciously strive to go in a different direction, e.g., AMM and black American jazz.<br /><br />Sorry for the time-line confusion vis a vis Drummond--was going from the wiki article on Grady which indicated a teacher/student relationship.Brian Olewnickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08567239067604835372noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28154988.post-66055655361053578392011-03-15T23:30:19.573-04:002011-03-15T23:30:19.573-04:00I am quite curious as to what other fine tuned met...I am quite curious as to what other fine tuned metallophones as Lou Harrison might be the only other one that comes to mind, and both that and the one reviewed sought out a relation to Indonesian music deliberately. I am not sure if being trapped is quite the relationship. Grady's work preceded Drummond's work in Just intonation and not a result of that by almost 10 yearsKraig Gradyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04234783065045199904noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28154988.post-24883081400538875562011-03-13T21:13:55.693-04:002011-03-13T21:13:55.693-04:00Thanks for your thoughts Brian. Rather than from t...Thanks for your thoughts Brian. Rather than from the standpoint of a standard compilation, 3+e (like the Ozu project) was intended to be presented as one body of work, so the cohesive uniformity was intended on my part. Of course the track order (and flow) is very important in accomplishing this goal. I also chose not to list individual track titles for the sake of keeping the focus on the whole rather than individual parts.<br /><br />As for Kraig's CD, it was my idea to include the second track because I thought they complimented each other in a subtle way while straying from the usual predictability of a single track ambient album. I also wanted to give people an idea of his previous work, plus I found myself playing both pieces over and over without growing tired of them, so I figured 'why not'? :)and/OARhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12765714120087231175noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28154988.post-51641540394682421322011-03-12T00:28:45.217-05:002011-03-12T00:28:45.217-05:00Five minutes before reading your post, I read this...Five minutes before reading your post, I read this about Antonioni.<br /><br />http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/mlasalle/detail?entry_id=84806Robert Gablehttp://rgable.typepad.com/aworksnoreply@blogger.com