Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!clyde.concordia.ca!rutgers!mailrus!umich!samsung!brutus.cs.uiuc.edu!psuvax1!psuvm!auvm!MOREKYPR!HALLRL From: HALLRL@MOREKYPR.BITNET Newsgroups: bit.listserv.allmusic Subject: Avant Garde Message-ID: Date: 6 Feb 90 14:13:12 GMT Sender: Discussions on all forms of Music Reply-To: Discussions on all forms of Music Lines: 20 Approved: NETNEWS@AUVM Gateway > An interesting experiment perhaps? Try to make music that has no >relation to time at all. In other words no time signatures, etc... It would >have to be something just improvised, and recorded then learned without >applying any sort of timing to it... I think this would be very difficult >to do, but then again, who knows? Anyone know of some band who has tried it? >King Crimson would be my best guess, if anyone at all... I really don't know of any rock or fusion bands that play in the avant garde style, I know Don Cherry (the father of Neneh Cherry) is a famous jazz avant garde performer. There was a song that the Dixie Dregs did called 'Leprechauns Promenade' that had a section in the middle of it that lasts for about 20 or 25 where there is no set time signature, just chaos and noise. My brother did an arrangement of it for percussion ensemble, that's the only reason I remember that song. Rando p.s. Lynard Skynard (spelling?) albums tend to have superior aerodynamic properties for frisbee throwing, 8-) hee hee, I know from experience!