Hey Chris: Fairly new as a reader to Substack and really enjoying your posts. Your own work shared here had a delightful retro quality: a kind of frontier steampunk post-modern sound. It's nice to hear advanced compositional techniques fulfilled with very traditional timbres - a bit like alternate musical history.
I teach at Berklee and have been exploring Schillinger's legacy in the pedagogy here - it shows up in odd
places like a homeopathically reduced tincture. So the connections between Cowell, Theremin and Schillinger are of particular interest to me. Some of these polyrhythmic textures are very reminiscent of Schillinger's rhythmic ideas.
I had only recently heard the name Schillinger for the first time and have been meaning to explore. Can you recommend a good starting point? I had to laugh when I noticed that the picture on his Wikipedia is him leaning into a Rhythmicon - like Lucy at Linus' piano.
Thanks for the comment on my music - I think a lot of people who think about and make music with just intonation wish they could go back to the moment that western music history diverged toward equal temperament and see where the alternate path would have taken us. That is certainly one of my motivations so the fact that it gave that impression is very gratifying to hear. Much appreciated
Hey Chris: Fairly new as a reader to Substack and really enjoying your posts. Your own work shared here had a delightful retro quality: a kind of frontier steampunk post-modern sound. It's nice to hear advanced compositional techniques fulfilled with very traditional timbres - a bit like alternate musical history.
I teach at Berklee and have been exploring Schillinger's legacy in the pedagogy here - it shows up in odd
places like a homeopathically reduced tincture. So the connections between Cowell, Theremin and Schillinger are of particular interest to me. Some of these polyrhythmic textures are very reminiscent of Schillinger's rhythmic ideas.
Hello Mark great to meet you and thanks!
I had only recently heard the name Schillinger for the first time and have been meaning to explore. Can you recommend a good starting point? I had to laugh when I noticed that the picture on his Wikipedia is him leaning into a Rhythmicon - like Lucy at Linus' piano.
Thanks for the comment on my music - I think a lot of people who think about and make music with just intonation wish they could go back to the moment that western music history diverged toward equal temperament and see where the alternate path would have taken us. That is certainly one of my motivations so the fact that it gave that impression is very gratifying to hear. Much appreciated
Milton Mermikides https://www.miltonline.com/
has a bunch of great YouTube videos including several on Schillinger:
https://youtu.be/ZqPSz34QqzA
Thanks, Chris.
Another great post. So full of musically informative and inspirational stuff!
ur so good