@Kujo20 said in What's Your View On the Use of Time and Space In Music:
@Dr-Mark said in What's Your View On the Use of Time and Space In Music:
I went through my Maynard/Arturo phase in high school. Interesting.
That just shows the difference in personalities and value systems. I never had a Maynard/Arturo phase. I was always much more interested in Miles, Chet, Freddie and the like. I certainly was impressed by the high notes from Maynard, Chase, Cat Anderson but way more impressed by the improvisors, even lead players with range but with less showy style, like Conrad Gozzo.
BTW, my technique was just fine, making all-state band, orchestra and choir even with special waiver to play in all-state high school band while in Jr. high, so not making excuses for poor chops.
I wasn't being facetious about reading John Cage's Silence. It not only deals with sound and silence, it even introduces being aware of ambient or "background" sound that fills in the space in "silence". I was raise mostly in Japan and Hawai'i among mainly Japanese-Americans so my aesthetics on sound and silence is perhaps with a different default sensitivity.
If you listen to latter Miles you hear a wall of contemporary sound, yet his personal playing still relies a great deal on space and silence. One aesthete of his is that in his spaces, there is still sound of interest going on in the other instruments. Some might call it a rhythm section. but they are actually co-creators in the music and their sound in his silences are not breaks in the music, but a continuum simply without his voice.