Robert Fripp's Diary

Wednesday 16 September 2009

World HQ Bredonborough New reading

10.16

World HQ, Bredonborough.

New reading I…

II...

Yesterday, while organising shelves in Study No. 1, the music library at the top of World HQ, my eye fell upon this volume edited by John Sloboda, and the arising sense of beginning today’s morning reading with it.

The first essay, by Eric F. Clarke, Generative Principles In Music Performance. Recent work in GC addresses similar concerns & interests as those discussed in the essay. A difficulty, for me, is getting through & past the vocabulary. But then, my music education was not academic.

Clarke acknowledges the creative insight, termed in Guitar Craft a Point of Seeing. He cites Mozart Beethoven & Hindemith seeing a piece in a single ‘glance’; and has difficulties as to how this quality of experiencing might be tested. The author has my sympathy. One possible answer is: experientially.

This is an example of spontaneous composition, where the piece is seen whole, perhaps in an instant. This seeing-of-the-whole, as one & a unity, then moves outwards (or downwards in an hierarchical presentation).

Well, good to know that an instinctive & intuitive sense of things is mirrored to some degree in the academy. Referring to the difference between forms of training & education, on the shelf behind my head…

… Dr. Lucy Green’s most recent book…

11.55    For those interested in emerging forms of doing business within the music industry...
Free digital music service Spotify bids to live up to the hype

Some record labels get paid for each subscriber, instead of each song, depending on take-up, but it is easy to see why the doubters may have a point.

… The four biggest labels — Universal, Sony, Warner and EMI — took a collective 16% stake in the business early on, in lieu of licence fee income.

Assuming this to be the case, how might this be equated to royalties paid on a catalogue? And even if micro payments were paid to artists based on subscriptions, how could these be verified as accurate by the artists? Please note, large sums of KC money were under-accounted by EMI, who were exceptionally unhelpful in responding to two successive audits, then even less helpful in eventually paying. And that was when accounting was “straightforward”, if only relatively.

18.10    On the Guestbook…
RF in Performance Today post :: Posted by eclecticguy on September 16, 2009
Performance Today has a post where Robert’s quote is used.

But not quite the quote

Re-booking the flights to Seattle for the GC course in October, the flights that mysteriously disappeared along with the disappeared travel agent.

Organising & ordering World HQ.

18.23    Stepping onto the street, homewards from World HQ…