Terry Riley rare footage, live in the 70s

[variations3]

Does anybody know if this is from his album Shri Camel?

Thanks

[Vtolus]

perfect

[Spelendora]

I know that organ is called the yamaha yc-45d. And what are called two devices that are on the cover of organ?

[baco82]

i love terry riley. is this natural tuning? i can hear the difference from equal temperament.

[Bastard471]

dont make a car of it!

[musicmovement]

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none needed : )

[FRANCESCOBERTELS]

Thank you very much!

[Mikemaniax]

Ah the Yamaha YC-45D... One thee greatest organs ever made!

[iXlikeXsushi]

Thank you for making the footage available.

[petezilla]

Ohhh it's a cover of "Riders on the storm" j/k : p

[setuda3]

So wonderful, and rare footage to expose me, I thank you.

[maeiraldi]

fuck yea

[dialecticalspectacle]

Thank you.

[Morgmun]

Too cool! :D



[vivalapsych]

been diggin'

[MJMorrey]

YES! nice find.

[finalnexus]

too much....

[tobto1]

beatiful

[Fresienduft]

Too bad no one found the play button of the tape recorder.

I am quite sure it would have contained the part of the performance that had made the whole thing musically interesting. That is, for those people who prefer to see a little bit more in music than just some handy tool to get "spiritually elevated", drunk or high or however you like to call it.

[saSkylark]

@Fresienduft google "India" and check out their classical music tradition

[Fresienduft]

@saSkylark I know quite about it. And I admire some of it. Rarely it's as boring as its epigones...

[oliverecords]

@Fresienduft I find you're a bit severe with this music. I hate labels, but I would put this along A. Coltrane or even B.Eno and other people whose music you may not like either. Lately I read someone's comment on a jazz video, saying he was through with it and got to more "musical" stuff, namely classical. But a sound is not intrinsically boring or non-musical. Sometimes, as many people do, I love to listen to nature sounds for example. I don't feel that elevated but I find it beautiful.

[Fresienduft]

@oliverecords I admit: I am very serious about music! ;-) And, btw, I do love to listen to the music of nature very much — in nature. And I am not against esthetics who try to kind of emulate the way sound develops in nature ("naturally"). Still, I think the musical complexity of an "evening in the woods-soundscape" is so much more exciting than this kind of reduction of nature's (or mankind's) capabilities in production as well as perception. But that's my view. I fully accept others.

[Fresienduft]

@saSkylark I don't need to google it, my wise friend... ;-)

[Raiyne123]

@Fresienduft Isn't that the function of most music, though? And what most good musicians aim to do? To take you on a journey, or to lift and expand your consciousness.

What's the point of 'musical interest', complex chord progressions and extended harmony, if it ends up saying nothing? We have gone through serial and 12-tone music and nothing really came out of it.

Have you wondered why Indian Classical musicians practice their whole lives, focusing only on a few scales?

[trojanlol]

@Raiyne123 nothing came out of 12tone music ? I listenned to some Boulez recently and I think you should too, it's amazing, totally different than terry, but great too. Try, and if you don't find it interesting, try replaying it, "eventually you discovers that it is not boring at all" you know ?

[Fresienduft]

@trojanlol Very true!

I think limiting the idea of a certain art to what YOU prefer it to be (for all sorts of random reasons), is only reveiling the limitations of your worldview.

So, curiousity towards what sounds foreign (and maybe ugly) first, is the most enlightening motor for one's own esthetic evelopment. That's why I listened to that video (not being a Riley fan, obviously).

I may have been wiser not to post a sarcastic comment on the tape recorder not being switched on, though... ;-)

[Fresienduft]

@Raiyne123 I have to disagree on your conclusions about music that tries to depart from simplistic ideas on the social function of music.

I think as any art it offers the potential of being something original, something that doesn't need a functional excuse to exist, etc.

Btw, I think a lot of breathtaking music came out of what you summarize with serial and 12tone, but contains so many more colours, technics, ideas etc.

So I agree with trojanlol here... :-)

[bassvessel]

yes



[polycyx]

master resonator.

[wassonii]

Thank you!

[peterbonos]

This is a variation on 'Anthem of the Trinity', featured on the album Shri Camel.