FernieCanto wrote:aperture wrote:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generative_music#Biological.2Femergent
Wow, cool. In fact, as I was writing that post, I had this idea in my head that Jacquard Causeway kind of sounds like the melodies are living things which could be reproducing and evolving by a natural process. Of course, in the hands of BoC, a song like that lasts for six minutes, whereas an actually avantgarde and experimental composer would have it lasting for six hours, surely.
I was sitting on this idea for a bit too.. like an ode to the idea of progression/evolution/iteration itself. Neither positive nor negative, and perhaps a good introduction to the nihilistic aspects of the story. It could represent life, it's reiterations and inextricable connections to the world, or the path of the evolution of technology and its attendant consequences, or the interplay of both. I think it communicates patterns that have been and will keep spinning along for many more generations. A tapestry of history made of more threads than can be sorted. It sounds new and promising at first, but becomes a lament.
Perhaps The Causeway is the precarious ridge traversed between pre-civilization and excess civilization. The unavoidable meshing of these worlds into a new one where both kinds of inhabitants are forced to build nests from the same insurmountable compost heap. Our mess cant be cleaned up, so it becomes merged with the planet we inherited. This could be the soundtrack of the stumbling way forward through that new world. I think some of these songs are more specific than others and encompass greater or shorter timescales, this being one of the larger ones seen through a wider lens.
