interview with trey spruance villette sonique 2010

[shjescaresme]

Thanks for posting this, that was a very interesting interview and a very interesting man.

[Wierdoinc]

I think his accent sounds a little strange, but he is american isn't he?

[mrgoesta]

one of my absolute favorite composers and instrumentalists, hands down. secret chiefs are just limitless. kudos for keeping it up.

[phreestylesk8r]

great interview

[creativenameisnotava]

This man is a legend. So rare to find good stuff on him, thanks!

[fatalfuss]

wow this knows his stuff...and shit 

LOL god

[clovengoatlord]

I learned to play music by figuring out the bungle songs. Trey's ideas are so exceptional to me. Hearing him talk, and getting an idea of how brilliant he really is, was a treat. Very nice post.

[Quaniverse]

where's that new Secret Chiefs 3 album?

when is coming out?

I'm dying for it.

[shuckslbj]

Trey's enunciation is impeccable.  Quite posh, I do say. Also, scarcely a more versatile, brilliant, all-around mind-blowing guitarist can be found.

[baiNEKO]

this was a really nice interview. thanks!!

[sweetabbyg]

@baiNEKO thank you!i'm trying to make part2 interesting

[punxtr18]

Yes! Cleric!

[bealtown]

I never got to hear his ideas about pitch before; what he says is congruent with musical (and all-art) systems outside the academic west: that a word is a thing, not just an idea. A musical motif has an objective existence which is not merely arbitrary. Harry Partch was trying to get this back into practice with his "Genesis of a Music" monograph and all the work that came out of it.

When a music is experienced as an objective thing like any other 'creature', it points us back to actual being.

[pootuberus]

totally agree, once you start playing "in tune" and break away from the equal tempered, let's change keys whenever we feel like it thing, it forces a radical shift in perception - changes how you see, hear, think, makes these "unusual" scales totally natural

[daiseemeadow]

i always seem to get lost in translation by what Mr. Spruance says...

thanks for the upload, i look forward to part 2=]

[harveypotato]

@daiseemeadow - That's because he's the most eloquently spoken bullshitter on the face of the planet.

[risingpower]

@harveypotato I don't believe that is true. He is making complete sense. I find it incredibly interesting that he, perhaps intentionally, modeled his 7 bands after the 7 diatonic modes. He obviously knows more than you on the subject.

[harveypotato]

@risingpower haha!

[thekidwiththefa]

@harveypotato Most of the time that's exactly what I think.

[baiNEKO]

@harveypotato -- wat? there was neither exceptional eloquence nor excessive bullshit there! you smokin ;p