tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8060605.post321407137744448786..comments2024-03-26T15:57:13.443+00:00Comments on On An Overgrown Path: How classical music lost its auraUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8060605.post-47523926458354951602014-05-23T14:47:58.749+01:002014-05-23T14:47:58.749+01:00Thanks Lyle. Your, as ever, perceptive comment pro...Thanks Lyle. Your, as ever, perceptive comment prompts me to state all three of Arthur C Clarke's laws for the benefit of other readers:<br /><br />1. When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong.<br /><br />2. The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible.<br /><br />3. Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.Pliablehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10616598845886342325noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8060605.post-82435942768888168032014-05-23T14:10:22.819+01:002014-05-23T14:10:22.819+01:00What a terrific post!
As to, "I am well awa...What a terrific post! <br /><br />As to, "I am well aware that some will deride me for venturing into the mystical at the expense of scientific rigor." - My feeling is that the situation is like Clark's idea, "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." I think music is a much more advanced technology than empiricists appreciate, that in time there'll probably be empirical expalnations to what we now call "mystical". Just because they haven't figured out all that's going on doesn't mean it's not happening.<br /><br />On a personal note - some years back some Tibetan lamas let me try one of those long horns after a concert. I'd never attempted brass before, but got a pretty good tone and loved the feeling. Got a French horn and it's provided the most amazing musical experience I've ever had - playing in the Brahms Requiem. I think a lot of what's going on is akin to the bone conduction you mention - somehow the sound of the horn is both in the air and in me.Lyle Sanford, RMThttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11312150272934828223noreply@blogger.com