Anthony Braxton - Echo Echo Mirror House

The  “Echo  Echo  Mirror  House”  music  is  a  trans-temporal  music  state  that  connects  past,  present  and  future  as  one  thought component. This idea is the product of the use of holistic generative template propositions that allow for 300 or 400 compositions to be written in that generative state. The “Ghost Trance” musics would be an example of the first of the holistic, generative logic template musics. The “Ghost Trance” music is concerned with telemetry and cartography, and area space measurements.

With the “Echo Echo Mirror House” musics, we’re redefining the concept of elaboration. It’s not a linear elaboration. The new
holistic  models  are  multi-hierarchical  formal  states  that  allow  for  many  different  things  to  happen  at  the  same  time,  and  the friendly experience can have the option of approaching the music in many dif ferent ways. Compositions, in this context, are not written to be like 5-minute or 30-minute compositions, but rather compositions that can stop and start to meet the needs of the friendly ensemble  of musicians, depending on their needs.
I have designed my system, from the beginning, so that the formation reality of the music involves ever ything happening at the
same  time.  With  the  “Echo  Echo  Mirror  House”  music,  suddenly,  it  goes  back  to  the  old  TV  commercial:  “Is  it  live  or  is  it Memorex?”

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