Danielou, A. (1995). Music and the power of sound. Rochester, VM: Inner Traditions
Presented by Stephen and Meagan
Below, a "Link Pile," an emergent scaffold, a prolepsis on class discussion. Write between the links!
The Influence of Sound Phenomena on Human Consciousness by Alain Danielou
connect rhetoric, remix culture, this time vis-a-vis shaivism/hindustani classical music again:
lit. critic/philosopher/theologian Abhinavagupta, who is the
author of the oldest extant commentary on the Natyasastra, the principal work of Sankscrit dramatic theory, comparable in scope with Aristotle's Poetics, and Rhetoric, for example pathos and rasas
also composed the Tantra Loka which collates and comments on diverse sutras, mixes in personal narrative and other idioms as well,
and also composed
a unique commentary on the Bagavad Gita
this article considers his metaphysics
musician as "ethos engineer"
Musicology today? An occasion to go back to the sample/mix/render mixture, and the delineation of a "work" in composer/performer/listener configuration. Talk about "commenting" on sutras, and transmission strategies of music and musical training as a practice of composition (in this case, it's nothing more than shiva bringing the universe into being: diversity. thread this with emptiness). Aristoxenus tells us to do this and other rhythmic recipes tell us to do this. The rhythm is the lacuna of composition: angle of entry for rhetorical analysis of diverse bodies of discourse. It's everywhere and nowhere in rhetorical history.
the sitar. How was sitar taught? Garana schools, teachers transmit knowledge to students by sharing states of consciousness, (Druhpad)
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design questions for us to contemplate this week?
secret life of plants and "equal" temperament?
definitions of noise
stakes involved in the "comma" cf Lucretius' "the clinamen" (perhaps)
http://my.opera.com/PRC/blog/althusser-on-aleatory-materialism
chapters 5 and 6: two turntables
wiki derive and full-class focus: David, Kevin, Caitlin
template: http://idh4000rhetoricsofrhythm.pbwiki.com/krisunittwoportfolio
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