In honor of my late teacher Clarence Barlow, I offer this deep dive into his theory of rhythmic indispensability, a way of measuring the relative importance of different beats in the measure.
Recording of "Barlicity: • Marc Evanstein: Barlic...
A mysterious making-of video: • Making of "Barlicity"
Some of Clarence's music to start exploring:
- "Relationships for Melody Instuments, version 6" (a concept piece with many different versions. Definitely uses indispensability in there): • Clarence Barlow - Rela...
- "...until... Version 7 for guitar" (another concept piece with many different versions, this onea meditative transformation based on his ideas about tuning): • Clarence Barlow - ...u...
- "Piano Concerto no. 2" (maybe my favorite piece that Clarence wrote. You have to listen to the whole thing; he wrote it over the course of 40 years or so -- the first part when he was in his teens, then gradually the piece gets wilder and wilder as his compositional world got broader and broader. Maybe his most personal, autobiographical work.): • Piano Concerto No.2 (1...
- "Estudio Siete" (I wish I could find the video that goes with this; it's written to go with Oskar Fischinger’s Study No. 6): • Clarence Barlow - Estu...
- "Septima de Facto" (an unhinged version of Prince's Sexy MF in 7/8 -- it's orchestrated in such a way that you actually hear some of the words...if you try really hard): • Septima de facto (2005)
- "Çoǧlu Otobüs İşletmesi" (an epic piano piece that only Clarence ever knew how to pronounce): • Clarence Barlow - Çoǧl...
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26 сен 2024