January 27ths (Zuni Song)

 1/27/1998

Reading fascinating book by Edward Hall, The Dance of Life, The Other Dimension of Time. On the Zuni songs: perform an experiment, formulate a function, because they came from an unconscious, unverbalized layer representing group sentiments and beliefs. This is why very good songs have congruence on all levels. Music represents a rhythmic consensus of the core culture.

 

[1/27/2025: What’s interesting and unique about primitive cultures is that they don’t memorialize or tokenize music as recordings, but can be represented (re-presented) in visual forms, perhaps depicting dancing, which is a transference from rhythms to the body and then to painting, fabric, pottery, etc.]

1/27/2001

Heard track on WDCB jazz. Angus Thorne (or is it Bill Dickens?) 7-string bass. Hilarious!

[1/27/2025: I still think even 6-string basses are overkill, especially if you have a guitarist in the group, although overlapping and dove-tailing in the mid-range around middle-C can be contrapuntally interesting. The 6-string easily gives you that range as opposed to playing all the contrapuntal lines (uncomfortably) above the 12th fret].