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Scott Walker, Postmodern Tendencies of His Poetics and Works

· · Musicologica 1/2016, Rock Pop Jazz

The author is dealing with six key words tied with a topic, which demonstrates indisputable importance of Scott Walker for world of music. One of them is conceptualism in the aesthetics of rock music as well as function and interaction of such terms as the relationship of the composer and the work, intertextuality, intersections of pop and classical music, intermediality and aesthetics of ugliness. The author presents in the character of Scott Walker the largest musical “chameleon” in the history of popular music; singer, composer pop, rock, classical and avant-garde music, composer of film music, song writer and poet who gives an exemplary work of progressiveness and syncretism in major artistic universe by his more than fifty years of musical career. With his personality and work we can demonstrate an example of the incoming “new” type of artist, dissatisfied, doubtful and unseized. His roots are based on popular culture; from times, even before the digital world of the mid-sixties, where the reflections of the composer and his work are moved to today’s fluid time. The chameleon is an animal that adapts to the environment by camouflaging; choosing different colors, but Walker tones changes his art eminently freely, freshly and unexpectedly. This study will talk about a story of courage, listening the voices of muses as well as insight of media and ability to articulate the deepest portions of the human being of the author and the recipient as well as inside the medium through which the dialogue between the two sides are pending.

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Ambient sound and onomatopoeia in jazz

· · Musicologica 1/2015, Rock Pop Jazz

The defining feature of the harmonical component of contemporary jazz is sonority that underlines spatiality. In jazz, it first appeared in 1950s, mostly thanks to the progressive approaches of Miles Davis and his innovative principles based on the then-newly rediscovered modal music. In the continuum of jazz style transformations, a new trend appeared at the turn of the millenia. Under the auspices of ECM publishing house, American and European musical traditions amalgamate in a globalised world to create a solid basis for the new, both local and global, trends that form today’s jazz language. This trend also brought new particularities into jazz harmony, which is looked at more closely in this study. One of the most significant personalities who contributed to the formation of the onomatopoeic harmonic language of jazz is American guitar player Bill Frisell. His compositional and improvisational style is analysed, along with a closer look at the musical premises he respected, and related to the music of European descent in order to present a viewpoint on the principles that form the basis of harmonic onomatopoeia in jazz.

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