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Re: Asian culture

Thanks for that Daryl, that was amazing!

j

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Daryl Shawn" <highhorse@mhorse.com>
To: <Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com>
Sent: Friday, January 30, 2009 12:37 PM
Subject: Re: Asian culture


> thanks Andy...! I won't add anything else, but...yeah.
>
> One of my favorite traditional pipa pieces, a millenia or two old:
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ZmAgFyVo48
>
> Daryl Shawn
> www.swanwelder.com
> www.chinapaintingmusic.com
>
>> Before Western influence, and still surviving in some places Asian
>> music incorporates innovation in a natural way. There's
>> no need to react against a tradition that isn't hidebound.
>>
>> For most of the innovations of the West, I think it's possible to
>> find examples of Asian music that did it first, and did it better.
>> Ambient, Minimalism, pure sound, rhythmic complication, microtones,
>> drone, and just plain "that's not music".
>>
>> ..and plenty of Asian music that Western theory just doesn't understand.
>


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