Critique of Pure Jazz (2014)

by Frank Rothkamm

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	1.	What Is Your Point? (60:04) opus 545 (2014) 01:00:04
	2.	Hymn of the Flight Trecker (60:00) opus 546 (2014) 01:00:00
	3.	Return to Fortepiano (60:00) opus 509 (2014) 01:00:00
	4.	Greggeries Peccaries (60:00) opus 549 (2014) 01:00:00
	5.	Reboot Factory (60:23) opus 548 (2014) 01:00:23
	6.	Low Bee Colony (61:28) opus 318 (2014) 01:01:28

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Catalog No: FLX33
Title: Critique of Pure Jazz
Sound Artist: Frank Rothkamm
Visual Artist: Jackson Pollock, Holger Rothkamm
Label: Flux Records
Length: 6:01:55 (21715s)
Composed: 2014
Location: Los Angeles
Instruments: Dual Yamaha FB01, FORTH
Release Date: 10/17/2015
Format: Digital
File Under: complex minimalism

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"Music came to a full stop with Brahms; and even in Brahms I can begin to hear the noise of machinery" Wittgenstein (1930)

1 Pure Jazz is everything that is random.
(We have input, the program, and output.)

2 What is random, the fact, is the existence of musical facts.
(The input is random within a range, a random choice from a known number of elements.)

3 The musical picture of the facts are the notes.
(The program is the advancement of time with each random choice.)

4 The notes are the significant propositions.
(The notes can be from imperceptible to indefinite. To be significant, they almost always are short or a fraction of short and within a musical range)

5 Propositions are musical functions of elementary propositions.
(An elementary proposition is a musical function of itself.)

6 The general form of musical functions is: MF = random(lower_limit,higher_limit)
(This is the binary form of propositions, the Bernoulli trial)

7 Whereof one cannot make a note, one must make a rest.

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