RESONANCE
John Cage once made a fifteen-minute concerto of silence. The music was the sound of the audience shuffling about and so forth. It caused quite a stir.
In the 1920’s Eric Satie gave a performance in a restaurant. He came on stage sat down at the piano and the audience fell silent.
“No, no, please,” begged Satie, “continue talking and let the music be the background.”
That evening was the origin of modern music.
Once many years ago when I lived in the Chelsea Hotel I spent an afternoon with a French artist called Jean Triffez who also lived there.
Suddenly, as we chatted, he asked me, out of the blue:
“What was the first musical instrument?”
I was in a sensitive state and so thought very deeply about this question and gave Jean some answers off the top of my head.
He answered ‘non’ to them all.
“I tell you,” he said and began walking heavily across the floor.
“First musical instrument…the drum…sound of feet on earth.”
There are three pages here. The first is my own, Marchesi music, which will be theoretical and practical.
The second will be what I term, Cosmic music, or other peoples music. This might often be accompanied by some odd theory as it is now.
The third is entitled Song of the Day which may introduce the listener to something new.
It will, overtime, become a musical library. But first things first.
Do.
A resonance.
