If there’s a musical demonstration of relationalism, and by extension (as Skholiast points out) of ecology, it’s the kind of improvised music that the Dead are supposed to have excelled at (and occasionally did). The universe gives rise to many wondrous entities in its long history of spontaneity, relational responsiveness, habit-formation, and form-building. The habits start as rhythms, melodic chirps that turn into territorial refrains and calls, and that gradually maneuvre their way into verse patterns, melodies, harmonies, polyrhythms. Distinct songs develop for particular purposes and gradually get freed from those purposes, taken up into improvisational routines and performances, some of which crystallize into larger-scale architectonics, but only ever temporarily.
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relationalism, earth jazz, & the solstice
Posted in GeoPhilosophy, SoundScape, SpiritMatter, tagged Buddhism, improvisation, Miles Davis, music, object-oriented philosophy, paganism, relationalism, solstice on June 20, 2010 | 9 Comments »