Zappa - what a tight music arranger

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they're pretty good musicians

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"The computer can't tell you the emotional story. It can give you the exact mathematical design,
but what's missing is the eyebrows."
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"There's no calculus in music."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EdM6KFFSRwc

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Pity that many of the videos attached here, can not be seen in my country, for some stupid Youtube policy /copyright reason. :(

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I have one video which is blocked in certain countries. I got rid of Warner's claim via fair use but it doesn't hold true everywhere. There have been numerous entities trying to lay claim to it (a Fred Astaire sequence from a flick) who definitely do not own it at all. At that time there was a lot of abuse of Youtube like this.

Here's an amazing thing. This is from Civilization Phaze III, composed at the Synclavier with one supposes a really minimal contribution from Ensemble Modern live/recorded to the hard drive.

This live group doing it... well there's bas relief if you get my meaning, which doesn't happen with the Synclavier. And certain instruments are kind of suggested or the samples weren't quite there and there's a larger dynamic range (with full-on trombones etc). But this is such a radical piece that the live orchestra seems hyperreal or surreal. This translation represents something actually new in the world of music, there are - confer Stravinsky and perverted orchestration - perverted or hyped-up dynamics and exchanges in timbre that were conceived for a machine and probably considered quite beyond getting people with horns and drums and suchlike to even do. And it's interesting to hear someone on a drum kit - and the percussionists with ratchets, slapstick and other gestures - do the Synclavier drums which again amounts to a hyperreal/surreal impression.

But rhythmically this is highly unusual to say the least.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LE7iTTDZeF4

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Music is great - the cameraman could have take some closeups, too. Maybe he had left the zoom home...;-)

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He wanted to make sure young Stevie was roadable.

There is another story where Frank about made Vai cry with 'I'm not even sure if you're roadable!' after some mistakes.

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jancivil wrote:"There's no calculus in music.

“There’s only 12 notes” - Charley Daniels.

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Ratt was flipping tight too. So was metallica and motorhead. But... yes, Zappa was tight.

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Dasheesh wrote:
jancivil wrote:"There's no calculus in music.

“There’s only 12 notes” - Charley Daniels.
this goes to 53

https://www.semantic-danielou.com/

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