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Dog 3000
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Edited Feb 23, 2011, 17:03
Re: Harmolodics
Feb 23, 2011, 16:58
From what I've seen of interviews, the Captain Beefheart comparisons don't end with the music. Ornette is a weird guy who seems to live in his own universe, and he has trouble explaining his alien concepts in mere words.

As near as I can figure "harmolodics" means that the harmony is built up from a pile of melodies played on top of each other, rather than using "chord theory" -- the "souped-up Dixieland" metaphor isn't a bad way to think about it.

But I think it's also a whole lot of individual idiosyncracies that don't necessarily translate to anyone else -- playing harmolodic jazz is pretty much synonymous with being a member of Ornette Coleman's group.



Though Royal Trux once claimed to play harmolodic music . . . (do you believe them?)
;-)
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