Word: rhythm
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Jamaica, N.Y. A Chicago boy blinded by measles at nine, Tristano later experimented with welding classical music to jazz and developed his own style of long melodic lines and shifting harmonies. Organizing several combos, he allowed each musician to play his own melody in his own key and rhythm with results that anticipated by a decade the free jazz experiments of Ornette Coleman...
...group's sterile rendition of "Satisfaction." What was a fevered shout of desperate frustration in the hands of Mick Jagger et al becomes a mechanical exercise under Devo's influence. The song itself de-evolves--it loses the anger and humanity of the lead vocals, the power of the rhythm guitar, the pulse of the heavy drum beat; it becomes lobotomized. Devo probably intended all this when they recorded "Satisfaction" this way--but that doesn't make the track any less dull. Alas, this sterile, tuneless shell will be many radio listerners' only acquaintance with Devo, and they will understandably...
...stage strikes you, there's no doubt that Devo has created one unique masterpiece--the de-evolution anthem, "Jocko Homo." The song opens with three chords on a standard electric guitar followed by a rising four-note sequence on some sort of synthesizer or Eno-treated guitar. This elusive rhythm continues throughout the song, as lead singer Mark Casale breaks out in a contorted voice with the de-evolutionary creed...
Regular visitors to the monastery usually stress the spiritual nourishment they receive from the rhythm of the monastery and its monks. Kimberly Patton '80, began attending services at the monastery last spring. For her, daily visits provide a framework to a life that once seemed fragmented. According to her, "the orderedness of their life is very different from the way students live their lives. To go to a place with a set schedule revolving around worship of God is a powerful experience. I was particularly attracted to the Eucharist and the chanting and singing. The forms are very beautiful...
...chamber music is murderously difficult to play well. If a performer is too flamboyant, he upends the others. If one violin is off pitch, all instruments sour. Each line is naked, each player dependent on the others to "breathe" together, in order to get the right pitch, intonation and rhythm...