Raymond Monelle observes the belief that there are simultaneously plural cultural temporalities, which musical temporalities exemplify. This is distinguished from the impression of natural time, as a flow that is uniform and singular. One could hardly exaggerate the importance of… Read More ›
Music
In the absence of natural time, clock time has become a tyrant – Greer.
James Greer argues that given the pervasiveness of time-technologies, primarily involving the clock, humans have domesticated and artificialised time. The result is that increasingly, natural time becomes absent. In a music recording studio, just like in a Las Vegas casino,… Read More ›
Technological time and natural time are two modes of musical time – Barry.
Barbara Barry observes that there are different interpretations of musical time, based around measurement and experience. The clocked measurement of time is here distinguished from the natural time of sun and moon movement, and biological experience. Alternative interpretations are different… Read More ›
Is the clock measurement of a note, or how long it feels, the real time of music? – Kramer.
Jonathan Kramer explores the position that a real, musical time, exists. In comparing the clocked measurements of the durations of musical notes, with how long such notes seem to a listener, a consideration is developed of which constitutes the real… Read More ›