From: Joseph Maurer (jhmau@sbcglobal.net)
Date: Fri Apr 08 2005 - 21:51:23 BST
On Tuesday 5 April MarshaV writes to Joe:
>Of late when I hear an arrangement of a melody played on a piano or other
>instrumental arrangement, other melodies suggest themselves to me. I try
>for harmony, but many times I am discordant. I wonder if this is true in
>painting also?
[MarshaV] If you're looking for a more technical answer, I'd say that lost
and found edges are a painting equivalent of your experience. Even the
phrase 'lost
and found edges' I find represents both painting and life.
Hi MarshaV and all,
I want to focus on the two phrases 'I am discordant', and 'lost and found
edges'. IMO I do not need another to tell me I am discordant, although I do
need others to sing with. I find being discordant the root for morality in
myself.
In atonal music there is no acknowledged discord. Mark Maxwell suggested
that the equal tempered tuned intonation possible on some music synthesizers
has different qualities than instruments tuned by well-tempered tuned
intonation to the 12 tone scale. I use this technical jargon to exemplify
the movement from one note to the octave. There are seven steps in a musical
octave. Harmony or discord depends on the steps sounded together. Morality
is not just one note but a relationship. Do I know when I am immoral? How?
There are steps from the inorganic to the organic, to the social, to the
intellectual level.
I don't know how many 'edges' there are in painting. But your statement:
"Even the phrase 'lost and found edges' I find represents both painting and
life" indicates at least a pattern for a mode of behavior.
Joe
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