[NewMusic] underwhelmed @ Mills

[David Slusser]

On Nov 8, 2007, at 1:16 PM, Ron Lettuce wrote:

> No, you were clear about it (Obviously, it was a choice, as the  
> canvases have paint on them, and aren't just blank canvas, they're  
> clearly painted white...). It's just that there are ways to cleanse  
> a pallette besides silence. Silence is the equivalent of bare  
> canvas...dynamics and textures also work as well...as you were  
> saying before, using different spectral ranges, identifying where  
> people are stepping on each other's feet is almost  
> critical...finding ways to support others improv is a very  
> difficult thing when you don't know what they are going to do  
> next...the paisly comment was more that it's VERY hard to cleanse a  
> pallette with something busy (like lots of loud fast notes from  
> lots of different people...), when you go to a good restaurant,  
> sometimes they will give you pickled ginger, or citrus, or mint as  
> a pallette cleanser, but almost no-one would give you chicken gumbo  
> as a pallette cleanser, unless they have some sort of "anti-chicken  
> gumbo"
>  coming up that will be exaggerated in flavor by the chicken  
> gumbo...this is what separates professionally done wine pairings  
> from cheese and wine...

periodicity creates macro rhythms