I really want to do a good job of figuring out Erik's reactions to modern music. But wow, that's hard lol.

Gold has a vinyl collection he's welcome to explore

I've always assumed his own music had moved towards twelve tone or atonal elements, that he was basically ahead of his time and also had incorporated other modes from his eastern travels

Jaq : I'll have him come over then, if that's ok

absolutely!

But to extrapolate from "this guy is an early Stravinsky" to "how does he feel about The Stooges...."?

I suspect that if Gold has a mind to put on music while he works, it depends on his mood. But older-school elton john is probably what's on when he's sad

loll

So if any music people have suggestions...

the smart thing would probably be to have him explore how stage music has evolved

and then touch on other genres when they started getting weaved in

yeah

I wonder what he’d think about how we use drums. Of course drums have been around forever, but using a drum set as an accompaniment spelling out the rhythm is, I believe, a new thing. European music until recently kind of had the rhythm...implied? without a four-on-the-floor drum beat, for example, marching along under the instruments.

Yeah. he would be familiar with actual martial music, of course, but applying it to a concert like situation?

He's also familiar with like, folk music in various places so he'd probably see "bands" as say, the type of setup you'd see in a Balkan village or a Romany camp

tosses some John Cash at him

yis