The discovery of Folk Cathederals

...... may be described as the heart ,the source of all musical expression.It is the ability of man to create a 'noise myth' that ,as CS Lewis noted ,creates a "willing suspension of disbelief ",ie the ability to accept the unexpected .It is strange that the ability to dream is linked to the ability to forget ,and that sound can so pacify ,as well as arouse .The wonderful thing about music is its very effanescance.It is barely heard before it disappears.Neither does it permanently intrude on anothers privacy,the ears are loaned but for a moment.Yet the birth of personal hi-fi stereo equipment has created all too frequently an atmosphere of auditive "terrorism" - rave, techno ,sonambulic states.This is why serious examination of the bricks and mortar of the neighborhood's 'noise myths' is rather more 'hands on' than may be expected of a group of highly trained classical performers....
Most great music is birthed in ghettos ,and over the last ten years , we would like to invite you join ,from the comfort of your chair ,the tour of the 'folk cathederals ' we have encountered.....and performed from within ...

A Cathederal to clown

Bach and the Cathederal

The six solo sonatas for violin consititute the most challenging vison of intuitive immersion of the musical self into a dynamic where none other exists than the harmonious .It is enough of a statement on how seriously JS Bach was taken to note that it was not until 1814 that the manuscript raised its head in a butter shop in St Petersberg ,Russia ,serving as a mere wrapping for the grease of the "bread of man".
Here are 4 sample mp3s ,movements 1-4 of the first sonata in Gminor ,the fuga of which Bach was so fond - that he used it in three later compositions.This first of the six is the take on the most formal of the baroque ,and the most serious.Each of the sonatas (there are three) transcribe a mood increasingly akin to lambs frollicking in the meadow ,which contrasts strangely with the dance suites - partitas -which culminate in radiant truimph ,especially as the middle Dminor commemorates the sadness of loss.It is the juxtaposition of the 20 minute chaccone with the gambolling C major sonata that are the most fervent circumscriptions of hope perhaps ever recorded on paper.

Ezekiel's early chapters on the bread of man is the antithesis of what Bach achieved with these far reaching thrusts of musical light.Yet there is hidden irony in much of what resounds within the monument itself.If the Cathederal is of man's making ,the Clown is of heavenly import.....

(3)Siciliene ,a twisting elegant dance

The complete set is being worked on

The Clown

Paganini and Zen- the art of sleeping with your eyes open while trying ones' hardest not to play a note .

The caprices are written for the artist ,in order that he may learn how easy it is to give freely.Didn't stop Paganini locking himself away for several hours a day while wrestling with each one, notedly proud that one cup of hot chocolate sufficed throughout.

Taking his Zen seriously ,protests that several of these techniques are better learned while destroying tandems in places where bikes are rarely seen .That's after the obligatory ten years apprentiship.Recorded at Bovenwater studio summer 2004.

Both samples are part of the clown series of 24 sound photos from the " musical encyclopedia of existensialism ".

Paganini 1st caprice

Paganini caprice no8

The * Clown CD consists of 24 Caprices all recorded at one sitting.

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