Couldn't agree more. Your point that 'Nor can it move to the right, expressing the passage of time … without the parameter of rhythm' profoundly articulates rhythm's core function. Will the course also explore how different cultures perceive and structure this fundamental temporal parameter?
I love that thought, and to me, it's an entire course of its own! That said, this course is meant to be an overview of making music, by first taking it apart, so that as composer (or interested/active listener) we first examine what drives us in our approach to expressing ourselves.
In formal study, we are often given "the rules" before we look at what is going on from a higher altitude perspective. Those rules become, for lack of a different understanding or perspective ... dogma.
My hope is to keep us all free of that, and so, the course is really about the student, not about absorbing the rules. What drives you to do this? What are your definitions for why you do what you do?
Thanks so much for sharing. To answer your question ... I think so, as it's always in the back of my head as an InterSpiritual Minister, and difficult for me to parse out from the totality. And while there are countless examples of rhythm in service to culture, it's almost impossible to discern between them, as they all serve the same high-level function: as a means to create community, as a touchstone to the Divine, and /or as a means to deeply connect with nature and natural cycles.
Couldn't agree more. Your point that 'Nor can it move to the right, expressing the passage of time … without the parameter of rhythm' profoundly articulates rhythm's core function. Will the course also explore how different cultures perceive and structure this fundamental temporal parameter?
I love that thought, and to me, it's an entire course of its own! That said, this course is meant to be an overview of making music, by first taking it apart, so that as composer (or interested/active listener) we first examine what drives us in our approach to expressing ourselves.
In formal study, we are often given "the rules" before we look at what is going on from a higher altitude perspective. Those rules become, for lack of a different understanding or perspective ... dogma.
My hope is to keep us all free of that, and so, the course is really about the student, not about absorbing the rules. What drives you to do this? What are your definitions for why you do what you do?
Thanks so much for your comments!
-J
hi Daniel
Thanks so much for sharing. To answer your question ... I think so, as it's always in the back of my head as an InterSpiritual Minister, and difficult for me to parse out from the totality. And while there are countless examples of rhythm in service to culture, it's almost impossible to discern between them, as they all serve the same high-level function: as a means to create community, as a touchstone to the Divine, and /or as a means to deeply connect with nature and natural cycles.