Composers Forum is a daily web log that allows invited contemporary composers to share their thoughts and ideas on any topic that interests them--from the ethereal, like how new music gets created, music history, theory, performance, other composers, alive or dead, to the mundane, like getting works played and recorded and the joys of teaching. If you're a professional composer and would like to participate, send us an e-mail.
Record companies, artists and publicists are invited to submit CDs to be considered for review. Send to: Jerry Bowles, Editor, Sequenza 21, 340 W. 57th Street, 12B, New York, NY 10019
In a comment below, Jerry writes of rhythm being hardwired into our brains: “we all respond to rhythms in some strange primitive way that is basically emotional.”
I’ve often wondered about the sound-world we experience in the months before birth, a sound-world dominated by our own internal pulsations, which must create fascinating patterns with our mothers’ heartbeats. A four-month fetus heart-rate can be three times as fast as its mother’s.
That’s the most predominant sound we know from the first moment we experience sound, and for quite some time thereafter -- what must feel like eternity -- until birth. Would that hard-wire a powerful predilection?
posted by Lawrence Dillon
9:50 PM
