{"id":5071,"date":"2011-07-18T19:05:39","date_gmt":"2011-07-18T18:05:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/?p=5071"},"modified":"2021-01-31T18:38:23","modified_gmt":"2021-01-31T18:38:23","slug":"i-have-problems-with-drones-part-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/2011\/07\/i-have-problems-with-drones-part-1.html","title":{"rendered":"I have problems with drones (part 1)"},"content":{"rendered":"

As an aside, I mentioned before that I have problems with drones. One thing that nagged at me during the Eliane Radigue gigs<\/a> was the sense of time: this came back to me when I re-read Robert Ashley\u2019s understanding<\/a> of what a \u2018drone\u2019 might be.<\/p>\n

It’s true, of course, that “time” passes while music is being played and while it is being listened to. But in non-timeline music (the drone) the time passing is not “attached to” the playing or the hearing. Time passes in the consciousness of the listener according to internal or external markers.<\/p>\n

I have called this new idea the “drone,” because there is no better term that is not a neologism – like non-timeline music. I have said that I use the term “drone” to mean any music that seems not to change over time.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Listening to Radigue\u2019s Jetsun Mila<\/em> at St Stephen Wallbrook<\/a>, and especially to the acoustic pieces like Occam I<\/em> and Naldjorlak<\/em>, I did not have this feeling of timelessness. As a new sound entered, or a persisting one changed, I wondered: why that sound now? Why was that last sound held so long? If the music is timeless, why did this sound have to give way to another? If it is not timeless, why was the sound held for that particular duration? Each change felt like a tiny admission of defeat, a futile attempt to delay the inevitable end. I suspect Radigue\u2019s music, or at least a significant amount of it, doesn\u2019t really fit Ashley\u2019s definition of the drone, despite his inclusion of her in his brief list of drone composers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As an aside, I mentioned before that I have problems with drones. One thing that nagged at me during the Eliane Radigue gigs was the sense of time: this came back to me when I re-read Robert Ashley\u2019s understanding of what a \u2018drone\u2019 might be. It’s true, of course, that “time” passes while music is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,44],"tags":[357],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5071"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5071"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5071\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8491,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5071\/revisions\/8491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}