Re:Tibetan musical notation
by radiowave on Thursday April 25, 2019 @08:49AM
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"The map is not the territory."
I'm stealing this phrase. Increasingly in music production, the map is the arrangement of rectangles on the screen, but it's a poor substitute for understanding the ebb and flow of the music.
In getting past notation by internalizing our knowledge of the music, we build a mental map of how we feel about the territory.
Re:Tibetan musical notation
by beat on Thursday April 25, 2019 @08:57AM
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Feel free; I stole it myself! It's from the Polish scholar Alfred Korzybski, who made many interesting observations about how language itself limits our understanding of the world.
I'm stealing this phrase. Increasingly in music production, the map is the arrangement of rectangles on the screen, but it's a poor substitute for understanding the ebb and flow of the music.
In getting past notation by internalizing our knowledge of the music, we build a mental map of how we feel about the territory.