Jun 15, 2008
Soft marble
Photo: Elpidro
The Traitè introduced the famous explanatory fiction of the sentient statue was later highly vulnerable to the physiologists, but it well served Condillac as a paradigm to demonstrate how an individual organism might acquire faculties. The statue itself represents man’s perfect organic structure; were it depicted, it would doubtless appear with the regular and harmonious proportions and the generalized physiognomy characteristic of neoclassical beauty. It signified in Condillac’s exposition the universal organic substratum and sensorium, which was the endowment of all men and which provided the foundation and seat of all mental powers. As the exposition opens, the senses of the statue are described as “asleep”, and hence the “soul” which later animates the statue is conceived as totally lacking in “ideas”. It has by definition never been penetrated by any sense impression. In its course the text proceeds to awaken and unlock the sleeping senses one by one, beginning with smell as the sense which contributes least to human knowledge. Progressively step by step tries to demonstrate how from simple sense experiences alone (like the smell of a rose), the soul in the statue would acquire its full complement of desire and passions, and the faculties of memory, association, judgement, etc.
Michael Donnelly – Managing the Mind
01. Wynton Marsalis – Canon In D
(Portrait of Wynton Marsalis)
02. Bach – Aria De La Suite N°3
(Classical chillout lounge / 2006)
03. Ennio Morricone – Piano Piano
(The legend of 1900 / 1999)
04. Michael Nyman – The Heart Asks Pleasure First
(The piano / 2004)
05. Jethro Tull – Bourée
(A little light music / 2006)
06. Giovanni Allevi – Come Sei Veramente
(No concept / 2005)
07. Yann Tiersen – Le Matin
(Amelie / 2001)
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heh. Bach just never sound good with “synth”. First time I’ve heard Miles Davis doing Bach. It’s a take, but a bit conventional. (I should stop complaining. ….ha)
I really have problems to understand the meaning of this kind of compressed english language Sq. Do you hear “synth” playing Bach?
Miles Davis’ track is a interpretation of Pachelbel’s original. Do you know what is conventional to me? The same way you shouldn’t be able to say what could be convenional for the others.
I only consider argumented complains about the quality of the tracks, and whatever complain coming from Moka.
I’m just a dummy/beginner and I hope I will do better in the future. I also hope you liked almost one of the seven tracks. There is something more you want to say, some other complain to discuss? Feel free to say whatever you want.
that bach is done on synthesizer. It’s not real violin. It’s a bit “glassy”. The edge of the note is not as pretty as real violin.
conventional or not. Music has history. some pieces are well known and have various big interpretation/way of playing it. I was thinking, Miles Davis could have add little “sizzle” to the way he plays the song.
just my take. (you shouldn’t worry too much about weird take on music. It makes the music better. new information about each pieces. It’s fun to endlessly talk about music pieces. It add context)
I love the jehtro thull btw, very lifely
“Classical chillout lounge” was performed by David Soyer & Lynn Harrell; they seem to be classic musicians.
David Soyer: http://www.cello.org/freepage/soyer.htm
Lynn Harrell: http://www.music.indiana.edu/som/ejmccf/honorees/harrell.html
Do you still think they used synths?
are you serious? hmm. they do sound like synth. … I have another of those I think. I’ll post.
Sorry, but that is not Miles Davis playing Canon in D. It is actually Wynton Marsalis performing Canon for 3 Trumpets and Strings, from the Portrait of Wynton Marsalis album: http://www.wyntonmarsalis.org/discography/classical/portrait-of-wynton-marsalis/
Beautiful, nonetheless. And thanks for posting.
That’s why i faced a lot of problems trying to find the Miles Davis’ album that would have contained the track!… May I ask you how do you discovered the real performer of the song?
I think I have to apologize for this mistake. Thank you very much for the support!
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