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Ornette Coleman: Intro To Harmolodics
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 8 มี.ค. 2020
- Ornette Coleman
An Introduction to Harmolodics
In 1995 Ornette Coleman released Tone Dialing with his band Prime Time. It was the first album on his new worldwide label Harmolodic with Polygram. Ornette is always asked, “what is Harmolodics?”
Harmolodics is the term he coined to describe his music and his philosophy of life. He decided to do a short film about Harmolodics. A few artists were in enlisted, including Lou Reed, Thurston Moore, Yoko Ono and dancer Wunmi Olaiya.
The film only went out to journalists as part of the Tone Dialing press kit. This is the first time it is being released publicly in honor of the occasion of Ornette’s 90th birthday March 9, 2020.
Harmolodics is hard to explain but it basically democratizes the relationship between melody, harmony and rhythm. And Ornette Coleman, with his theory of harmolodics, didn’t just rewrote the language of jazz. He changed the way people hear music.
Rest In Peace Ornette Coleman 🙏🏾
The " EXPRESSIVE ABSTRACTNESS ".
IS HELD IN WITHIN, TO BE BORN AND
WITH SCREAMS. IT BURSTS UNTO
THE WORLD IN THE SOUNDS OF
POETRY. WONDERCHEK ///.
I truly believe that Ornette Coleman is one of the greatest composers in the history of Western music, not just jazz. He’s in the same category as the greats (Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, Brahms, Chopin, Liszt, Bartók, Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninoff, Stravinsky, Joplin, Ellington, Bird, Monk, Miles, Trane, Shorter, etc.) because he not only liberated jazz from conventional harmony, tonality and structure, but he showed us how to truly listen to the music and how to take it in.
Lest we not forget, Sun Ra.
I’m always rooting for contrarians. This man was definitely a genius.
An undisputed genius
I've listened for years read the academic ideas and I have to say I don't get it but the truth is I feel Ornette Coleman's music so deeply it is truly a human experience
I've been waiting my whole life for this
I can't believe someone disliked this😦...they must be part of the system...
No ones liked or disliked anything this is just all pointless bullshit : -)
Only talking 2 you cause don't have many people 2 talk 2 n is less anxiety provoking talking this way, see have few friends, am not cool like u would like am probably 'Loser' 2 you n this will only make you less greater n loser 2 : -)
I'd be friends with ornette, now he's honest n Trustworthy, Great person ,: 0
it's the misunderstood
He found a great word to describe my life. I am 77 and been aware of being this since i was 5. I have been a musician since I was 10.
Coleman, Ulmer, Cherry, et al. ... the music sounds as my mind and body often feel.
Such a wonderful cornerstone in the history of music..
RIP
You can ear ORNETTE HARMOLODICS influence on MILES "ON THE CORNER "in 1973 .
This is more than a video on music; it’s a philosophy of life that goes beyond words. He seemed to have a freed understanding of being a human.
Delightful. I have always chocked on free jazz but this openned my eyes and ears. Ornette comes across so sweet and likable a real genius.
I ran into Ornette waiting for the uptown A train st 59 around. He had been on the cover of the Voice around our meeting. Holding some micky ds.
Gave him a demo
He told me he moved uptown cuz he got beatup
Had collapsed lung. Broke my heart.
Ornette is not a musicain! ornette es : -)
The Texas horn that changed the world. Thanks for this wonderful upload.
When Ornette Coleman describes harmolodics as "removing the caste system from sound," it makes perfect sense.
On a broader level, harmolodics equates with the freedom to be as you please, as long as you listen to others and work with them to develop your own individual harmony. The richness of harmolodics derives from the unique interaction between the players. By breaking out of the prison bars of rigid meters and conventional harmonic or structural expectations, harmolodic musicians improvise equally together in what Ornette calls compositional improvisation, while always keeping deeply in tune with the flow, direction and needs of their fellow players. In this process, harmony becomes melody becomes harmony.
My God I just watch 3 years a go content, so lucky i'm still life 😅
He was such a beautiful soul.
Thank you for putting this together! Currently expanding my mind!!
This is amazing. Enjoyed it greatly. Ornette is my hero!
Thank you for the upload!
OC is as influential as anyone else in jazz on the music (that I've) heard from this century.
Inspiring as hell, conceptually thick in moments - yet his music can often sound and feel like a fresh rinse over the brain and heart.
So glad to see this come to light!
Great video! Much food for thought, especially his comments on education
still love his work!!
Ms Wunmi doing her Harmolodic dance! Yeah, girl!
I know nothing about her, thanks for the info. I’ll look her up.
this is fabulous, such genius, such generosity!
had to look up who edited this, cos' too dope, same dude who cut music videos for Korn, B.I.G., Fatboy Slim// Spike Jonze among many others :D
Ornette somehow reached a point where he saw life differently. He reflected that in his music and managed to find a handful of artists who could relate. What he did was uniquely inspirational. There were critics and doubters, but there were listeners who were struck by the beauty of what he was doing. None of that seemed to influence his trajectory.
i needed this...
beautiful
This is wonderful. Thank you so much!
I was very lucky to attend a Don Cherry clinic on this.. genius !
Thanks for this!
No wonder he teamed up with David Cronenberg. What a brilliantly bizzarre mind!
This a most wonderfullest thing on you tube, Denard (sic) did you upload it ??? :))))))))))))
Ornette speaks to me. Am I way out? Hope so. .
He tries 2 speak 2 all of us : -)
does anyone know the name of the song that was played at the start of the video with the dancing?
The songs are noted in the end credits.
THATS WATT IM TALKING BOUT.
❤
thank you . very important document...do you have the red puzzle that cam with the press kit? it read "remove the caste system from sound" as in the beginning of the film...
anyone know what book is being shown?
You mean War and Peace by Tolstoy? The one where they highlight words?
He did it his way... Good for him ....
I've grown up with frank Zappa saying that jazz isn't death
it just smells funny
ornett straighten that out
still dont know what harmolodics mean! What is it now? Melody is not driven by harmonics and is equal to it, does not say much.
I think that's part of the point, it is open to interpretations and fluctuations depending on the the composer or performers skill set or desire.
There are a multitude of tools a composer can use. There is a tendency to begin with Harmony and then write a melody based off of that original harmony, or vice versa. However, why should the melody and harmony be related? Maybe write the two independent of each other. Why not start a piece from dynamics, or structure? Why use the pre-existing language of functional harmony, instead of creating your own symbolic harmonic system for the piece your creating? For instance using Colemans example of visualizing a persons initials to translate that into music.
I think in essence its about rejecting the rigidity and the formality of the European music theory language, or any other for that matter. They all emphasize certain aspects over others, and they all have value, but if you've got a pallete full of colors, why stick to the same 1 or 2 or 3 everytime.
Is like any element can have any power it wants, melody/harmony is not dictating rhythm, rhythm isn't dictating melody, very interesting concept 2 me, not always easy, I was getting it when I was reading it in books on google. When I hear his groups no instrument seems to be in control of another, ornette is maybe leader so they are 'with him' as he has said in past but playing 'for themselves', it's folky kind of, maybe even a little like country music or as well other cultures like musicians of joujouka, they can follow the sounds in their head while looslely following ornette n ornette following himself, it's a whole new way of playing together, a whole new way of music I believe that could lead 2 even more ways of playing together and new sounds/music forms. It's not like charlie haden is following ornette exactly, maybe he has quite a bit but he has freedom 2 explore, he's not held down by accompaniment, and harmony or melody of the 'piece' dictating, except he dictates and bes with ornette loosely, same as higgins n cherry or blackwell etc, it's so free n easy, and it does away perhaps with the Western notion that if people aren't forced into education they won't educate themselves. I believe personally people have sense of purpose and will naturally want to be working on something, although I think the Western education system is a fine system, and does the job so to say, it's always interesting to question n try new things. Whatever the case Ornette had his style and way of music n I just love the freedom n folkiness n rawness, it's refreshing to listen to it after some improvising can seem too strictured by set rhythms n creating, n Ornettes music always seem Live, so I've seemed to understand it better by turning it up, this is real live playing music, not portraits or whatever even though that can be great too not always with ornette, at least turning it up has allowed me 2 really hear it and enjoy it, get it so now I am getting it more n trying to get more n more. ,: 0
Yeah perhaps it is got flaws too, it can even be limiting playing like that occasionally n not relating Anything to the chord progression cause anything works (Dolphys idea), I particularly like dolphys concept cause it seems 2 be like any note can work cause they all come out of eachother, n then u get Ayler n Cecil n with Dolphy though I just love to come from a few different points of view, ornettes n dolphys n etc, open the possibilites up to where so much could be possible n fascinating n exciting.
There was always a rumor that Harmolodics was all BS that Ornette made up to pull the wool over whitey's eyes.
@@lex3729 Yes makes sense, i think it is his own view and ignores everything that existed in music to this point, he has a unique mind and i think it is just the way he percieved his music without describing it in european music mindset. I mean modal folklore musics melody is also not driven by harmony but it is not equal to harmony because there not much harmony. So you can say his music is driven by ear and not western music theory but you could use western theory to classify his techniques.
At what point is Ali? I d love to see how he looks now. :))
Yeaahhh ,:-0
Anyone knowd whats the name of the music in the end?
It's an excerpt from Ornette Coleman & Prime Time - Bach Prelude
@@serena6464 thank you!
From this album: www.discogs.com/Ornette-Coleman-Prime-Time-Tone-Dialing/master/259196
Tanışalım, iyi arkadaşımdı rahmetli.... :))
What day is his again in Fort Worth?
"Remove the caste system from sound..."
Can't make head not tail of it?!
Just play as many bad notes as possible