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From: tebo@gatech.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.music
Subject: Harmelodics
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Date: Tue, 9-Aug-83 12:42:44 EDT
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Posted: Tue Aug  9 12:42:44 1983
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   I'm interested in hearing from anyone with any opinions or information
about Ornette Coleman's "harmelodics."  I'm especially interested in hearing
about any interviews with Ornette published in the last few years.
The terse, cryptic statement he made on his "Dancing in Your Head" LP
was of help in making this VERY different sounding music more accessible to me.
It may be that trying to attain a better intellectual understanding of
harmelodic theory is a bad idea: intellectual listening often makes the
listener less open to emotional/aesthetic interpretation.  Despite these
fears, I'm still interested in any comments. I'd also be interested to
see if there IS anyone out there with a taste for this sort of music.
   Ornette "alumni" are also of interest.  Blood Ulmer and Shannon Jackson
are the only other purveyors of the idiom I know of.  Additional information
and/or record titles and/or reviews would be appreciated.