[FRIAM] There is style and then there is mood

[Eric Charles]

Well.... it's art and art "creates a mood" in the broad sense... right?

By that I mean... I think... not that "art" inherently does that... but
that the art we keep around is the art that does it to some
desirable level.

I like The Godfather, Apocalypse Now, Bojack Horseman, and Smashing
Pumpkins. Christi doesn't. She doesn't like them, because she doesn't like
the "mood" they leave her in.
<echarles at american.edu>


On Fri, Feb 26, 2021 at 1:40 AM jon zingale <jonzingale at gmail.com> wrote:

> I spent the working day listening to Arvo Pärt
> <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4e3xhWPhffc&ab_channel=VSPmusicali&t=0s>
> and now I am experiencing a not unfamiliar experience. Voicings relegated
> to the back of my mind auto-hallucinate music not in the style, but in the
> mood of Pärt. There is no particular melody or theme but instead simply,
> and non-specifically, a feeling. If pressed to denotationally represent the
> experience, I would find the direct translation to tintinnabuli
> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tintinnabuli>, to arpeggiated tonic
> triads, and counter-stepwise diatonic motion. Such a representation,
> however, would be secondary to the actual experience, to the experience of
> wistful longing, endless expanses; the intensity of all-consuming and stoic
> loneliness. What is this that I produce?
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