User:Tavisab

About Tavisab

 * Name: Tavis Ashton-Bell
 * Age: 21
 * Location: Australia
 * Areas of Interest: Music Performance, Teaching and Composition, Musical Instrument Design and Creation, Semiotics, Neuropsychology, Linguistics
 * Current Studies: (Completing a Bachelor of Music \ Bachelor of Education Undergraduate Degree at Monash University)
 * Classical and Contemporary Clarinet \ Bass Clarinet Performance
 * Musical Composition (Traditional Classical, 20th Century and Contemporary, Jazz)
 * Other Persued Interests:
 * Semiotics in: Time, Music, and Visual Arts
 * Neuropsychology
 * Musical Instrument Design and Creation
 * Instrumantal and Compositional Instruction

Articles Edited
"A test for even the accomplished clarinetist, Messiaen's extremely slow pulse (quaver (eigth note) = 44), diverges rhythm from the common perception of regular metric musical time. As it has no written time signature, it is implied that the performer is to play "out of time", but not out of rhythm. That is to say that the semiotic comprehension of musical time is to be ambiguous. This "stillness" in the piece is not only to freely interpret the "sadness" of the abyss that is "Time", but also to enforce Messiaen's breakdown of the listener's personal feeling and interpretation of musical pulse. This seemingly paradoxical notion of a movement with continual rhythms as opposed to regular metrical intervals conveys the "sadness" of "Time" and the endless void that is its passing."
 * Quatuor pour la fin du temps - Structure (added content written by Messiaen that describes the movements II. Vocalise, pour l'Ange qui annonce la fin du Temps (Vocalise, for the Angel who announces the end of time) through to VIII. Louange à l'immortalité de Jésus (Praise to the immortality of Jesus), and my own interpretation to III. Abîme des oiseaux (Abyss of birds).
 * Hitomi Kaneko - Entirety. (Background, Writings, Compositions and Discography) Japanese/French Contemporary Composer.