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Like Stephen I purchased the Varese discs after reading the posts here on
the list. I have been quite satisfied and interested in them. Certainly
they are not the kind of discs to listen to at a single sitting. But as
I have listened to them periodically in the two months or so since I got
them, I find the music becoming increasingly familiar and comfortable. In
listening to many of the recordings in my jazz collection for example I can
find many things that seem derived from Varese's rhythmic impulse and use
of percussion.
In fact, as I was listening today to Integrales and some others I was
struck by just *how* familiar the sounds were. If I didn't know better,
I would have thought I was listening to the sound track from a contemporary
action thriller movie. This was actually a bit disturbing to me. How do
we travel from innovative creative music designed to make us think, to the
idiomatic background noise of the latest blockbuster without realizing it?
Ed
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