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Originally Posted by Xurtio
I have an addiional consideration that isn't given a lot of time in mainstream academic music: timbre theory. The way different people hit notes with their instruments - the components of the attack, sustain, decay. Thing that we seldom have symbols for in music theory. This reddit thread from the music theory subreddit has some resources:
https://www.reddit.com/r/musictheory...ory_of_timbre/
In pop music, timbre is chiefly vocal and sample-based (given the direction of electronica). But samples, too, can be insightful if used right. I always thought John Cage was on the fringe, but I still like to take parts of his philosophy:
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Wonderful ideas - thank you for sharing them! I've copies of Silence (the 50th Anniversary ed.), For the Birds, and Empty Words which reveal much of Cage's philosophy and I enjoy them immensely. But I had not yet seen Écoute (1992) - the documentary film from which this interview is taken.
I recall Eno expressing similar ideas many years later with the Long Now Foundation. The unreleased Bell Studies for the Clock of the Long Now is one of my favorite recordings.
Thanks again!