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Having recently read Oliver Sack’s “Musiciophilia,” I am even more amazed by the human brain’s capacity to create something overwhelmingly amazing and which serves no readily apparent evolutionary purpose. Such is music. The ability to perceive music requires different parts of the brain to process its distinct components–rhythm, melody, harmony, pitch, timbre, dynamics, etc.
Sacks fills his book with amazing stories of people lacking in the ability to perceive one or more of these elements; others who lose the ability to understand music at all; still others who suddenly start hearing music playing in their head constantly; people who are not musical and suddenly start composing music in their head and have to learn music in order to transcribe or play it; people with and without perfect pitch; synesthetes who see musical keys and notes in colors; people who lose sight and develop increased powers of music; and composers for whom color and music are so inextricably linked that it directs the form their compositions take.
I am reminded of Moondog, a who wrote today’s piece.
Moondog was born Louis Thomas Hardin in 1916 in Kansas but grew up in Wyoming, where at an early age he started drumming on cardboard boxes. At some point, his
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Moondog (1969 album)
1969 studio single by Moondog
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Winner of the prestigious BASCA British composition award, multi-instrumentalist Andy Scott is a versatile contemporary musician with a distinctive saxophone and compositional approach that includes elements jazz, worldmusic and contemporary classical music. Scott works to order, often for leading instrumentalists and ensembles on the world scene. He teaches at the composition and saxophone departments at Royal Northern College of Music, is a popular course leader and holds lectures and workshops around the world. In addition to being a band leader in his groups and projects, Andy is regularly invited as a guest to lead and direct large groups and creative projects. For more than thirty years he has been launching creative collaborative projects, one of which is dedicated to the music of Moondog and his work "Bird's Lament" for Charlie Parker, which he realizes with the SAX-UMAS Ensemble.
The unconventional composer, poet, music theorist, musical instrument inventor and performer Moondog wrote "Bird's Lament" in 1955, following the death of saxophonist Charlie Parker, who went by the nickname Bird. He was friends with him in the early 1950s, when they often talked about music and the possibilities of collaboration, which never happened. It is a work that represents hi