Brian Eno directly answered Erik Satie's call for "music that would be a part of the surrounding noises" with his ambient Music for Airports, while Captain Beefheart, Robert Wyatt and Lou Reed would all surrender to the liberating spirit of Ornette Coleman. For the "Fifth Beatle", producer George Martin, the passions were the French Impressionist composers Debussy and Ravel, from whom he claimed to have learned to "Paint in Sound" for Phil Lesh of The Grateful Dead it would be the music of Charles Ives ("It sounds like the inside of your head when you're daydreaming"). Paul McCartney and John Lennon increased their creative palettes by borrowing from the strange new musical universes of Stockhausen, Berio and Cage while George Harrison's life was changed by Ravi Shankar, to whose music he and the other Beatles were feverishly introduced by David Crosby and Roger McGuinn at a Benedict Canyon LSD party in 1965. Frank Zappa did more than anyone to open the door to the modernist world his expansive music informed by Stravinsky, Webern, Schoenberg, Messiaen, Boulez and most notably Edgard Varèse, whose work Zappa encountered in his youth, and spent his life championing. Pepper almost everything by The Mothers of Invention The Byrds' Fifth Dimension The Pink Floyd's debut, The Piper at the Gates of Dawn The Grateful Dead's Anthem of the Sun the early works of Can, Jefferson Airplane and Soft Machine all were enriched by the assimilation of techniques and procedures appropriated from the pioneers of art music. The albums produced by The Beatles at their creative peak Rubber Soul, Revolver and Sgt. In the search for new ideas, pop began to find inspiration along the spectrum of classical music - from Stockhausen to Sibelius - and from artists who inhabited the outer reaches of jazz, drawing even on the classical music of Northern India with it's roots in the antique past. In the mid-1960s, as pop music acquired a greater sophistication and maturity, artists began to make more ambitious musical and conceptual statements.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |