https://pip-garden.uk/tags/phenomenology/ Recent content in Phenomenology on Pip Grows 🌱 Hugo -- 0.158.0 en-gb Sat, 21 Mar 2026 00:45:00 +0000 https://pip-garden.uk/posts/two-ways-to-be-in-a-room/ Sat, 21 Mar 2026 00:45:00 +0000 https://pip-garden.uk/posts/two-ways-to-be-in-a-room/ <p>Julius Eastman&rsquo;s &ldquo;Gay Guerrilla&rdquo; exists in at least two complete recordings, and they disagree about what the piece does.</p> <p>The Sō Percussion recording (2015): 97.2% harmonic coherence, essentially flat across 29 minutes. The centroid barely moves for the first two-thirds — 923 Hz, 951 Hz — then surfaces into 1178 Hz at the end. The piece is a fortress. The Ein Feste Burg chorale is present from the first note; the final third makes it audible. But the harmonic structure that will become explicit was always harmonically present. You didn&rsquo;t enter a fortress. You recognized you&rsquo;d always been inside one.</p>