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On this page I am going to start keeping a semi regular blog about my musical thoughts.
Gigs The Sandcastle wed nights, Sun arvo at the Mad Monk Urban Gypsies
The Sandcastle The food at this place is fantastic.
Bandish Fairbridge Festival 2009
Del Feugo Fou Fairbridge Festival 2009
25/08/08
How is music universal? What aspects of music are universal? This is never qualified when someone says music is universal. Music is a man made structure and any sound outside this structure is not music. A bird singing can interpreted as musical but it is not music, when someone like Messian uses bird song in his music it then becomes music.
Music cannot be intellectually nor emotionally universal. However, where music is universal is that it can evoke a ‘varied’ emotional response with or without an intellectual understanding. Animals and humans have evolved to respond to sound in some way and this I feel is the aspect that composers innately understand.
2/6/08
For the moment I hold a belief that musics meaning exists on a continuum between referentialism and absolutism. My position is absolutist, I feel that music is about form and structure and that form through time has the power to evoke a variety of meanings. For me the power of music is a random and abstract process (but not always) between listener and musical event.
3/4/09
The further I remove myself from popular music the more integrity I feel I have.
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Glenn Rogers - guitarist and composer. Accomplished in both Jazz and classical guitar he has performed with symphony orchestras and in major concert venues and festivals throughout Europe and Austraila.
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