Topic: | Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Importance of Emergence |
Posted by: | Mark MacLean |
Date/Time: | 31/01/2004 22:28:36 |
Hi John, In part of your reply you wrote: "To this day, I can play in sequence "individual" parts of a west African polyrhythm well enough but are unable to pre-hear the emergent pattern that occurs once the individual parts are played against one another. Possibly, this is a statement about where in the process of developing my skills as a percussionist I am at present. However checking with other drummers (who I perceive to be more advanced than I, I have found the same inability to pre-hear the emergent rhythm." I am unfamiliar with drumming and African polyrhythms, but I'm wondering about this "pre-hearing" you are referring too. As someone who has spent quite some time playing pre-recorded music as a DJ, I often “mix” music (typically 120-130bpm dance music) in my head (as well as live (at some later point)), and have some sense of what it will sound like as a final product when beatmixed together. Is this what you are referring to? To what degree of accuracy are you comparing this “pre-heard representation" with the final product/patterning? Also don’t composers "pre-hear" symphonies with multiple individual parts? Would modeling a professional DJ or composer help lead to this type of competency/understanding? Although, perhaps from your comments that followed your example, there much more to this "predicting" of emergent patterning that you are also alluding to. Perhaps a "higher order", or some epistemological backdrop, onto which to locate, track and predict these patterns? Is this close? And finally...can we help? What proposals can you make to those of us that would be interested in participating in your investigation, and formalization of these concepts? (Or as a starting point, what are some of the underpinnings that could be investigated (past a simple web search for "emergence") to bring us to a useful level of dialogue in this area?) ATB, Mark MacLean |