Knee Play 2 - Philip Glass
My mind is pleasantly disabled by the rhythms of autistic poet Christopher Knowles’ libretto for Einstein on the Beach. There is an amusing scene in Errol Morris’ Fast, Cheap & Out of Control in which an animal trainer demonstrates how a lion stalking him is mentally overwhelmed and pacified when a chair is put in front of his face; the lion cannot focus on the four legs of the chair and immediately loses track of what he’s doing, sitting down happily on the floor.
Perhaps the combination of iterations and permutations in Glass’ music -additive rhythms, threes and fours and fives, subtractive rhythms!- and in Knowles’ words overwhelm and pacify my mind. It’s like having a migraine without the pain. This transcription is in error in some places, but it’s interesting nevertheless.
(Inspired by Topherchris posting Anthem - Part 2 from Powaqqatsi).
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Knee Play 2 - Philip Glass...yeah! what he said!
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mathcat345 said:
Philip Glass’ music always makes me very nervous, except for his music for “The Illusionist.” That might be because it’s in the background and other things are distracting me. I am not a fan of Glass; it’s a migraine *with* the pain.
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