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...harpsichord maker convinced me that the noise I was hearing from the modern harpsichord I owned, colorful and varied though it was, was only an apology for the fact that no one sound on that instrument was a classical sound. He actually explained to me why, sitting at eighteenth century harpsichord, there is a classic quality to the sound, in that you don't need much variety with the style of playing and listening, which defends that instrument in its own right, and you don't need to apologize...
...traditional rock, the guitar is the central instrument for these musicians, but their riffs resonate with blues and jazz, reggae and rap, and all the other rhythms of the black musical experience. "We didn't watch MTV and take a little of this and that because it was hot," says Follow for Now guitarist David Ryan-Harris. "We grew up among a lot of various musical influences, and we use them all." Lyrics in these songs deal with race relations and other social issues that reflect a consciously black sensibility. "A lot of rock is about coming of age," says...
Currently, German science is agog with its exciting discovery of "E rays," which are said to come from deep within the earth and cause cancer and which cannot be detected by any known scientific instrument. Fortunately, they can be sensed by a dowser carrying a forked willow stick. The trusting viewer in what was the Soviet Union places a bottle of water atop his TV set every morning so that a faith healer can "charge" the contents with curative power via Channel 6. In Finland and Sweden the private, expensive and government- accredited Rudolf Steiner schools teach children to cast...
BIEGET: It's kind of like the difference between buying a paint kit with a limited number of colors and painting by numbers as opposed to getting a blank canvas and mixing your own paints and slapping it on with anything--brushes, toes, whatever. We approach the instruments in a way that most of the music population in general doesn't, because it's so new and they're so flabbergasted by the fact that they can take this thing out of the box and sound like Michael Jackson. If you really get inside and learn it, there...
LANCTOT: Things that had acharacteristic sound to it, like an analog drummodule, might have some characteristic sound. Nowwe've got more instruments, and the samplinginstruments are more the sampling, flat sound,true reproductions of sound. So hopefully, youdon't hear the instrument; you just hear thesound...