Bryan Hooten’s Framing the Void series of articles for RVAnews describes music and its relationship with negative space. Part IV, published today, explores musical line, where the time and space dimensions of music intersect most thoroughly.
We seem to have an intuitive sense of the void, a void that our minds constantly and compulsively divide, rearrange, and reassemble. Like the human experience, all music, including the tune you just sang, plays with these dimensions. When listening to or playing music, we constantly experience sound and silence, space and time in combination, and nowhere is this play more apparent than in a musical line.
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