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Modal openness, the long inside
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Kind of Blue
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Kind of Blue
Modal openness, the long inside
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Film
1 work
Hungary · Film
Sátántangó
Béla Tarr · 1994
Tarr's seven-hour duration is a modal field, the camera holding still while the world reveals itself. Both works treat duration as the instrument that virtuosity normally replaces.
Television
1 work
United Kingdom · Television
The Singing Detective
Dennis Potter · 1986
Potter trusts mood the way 'Flamenco Sketches' does — interior register, memory layered with song. The fragmented chronology is a televisual translation of modal patience.
Literature
1 work
India · Literature
Gitanjali
Rabindranath Tagore · 1910
Tagore's devotional verses are organised around the breath, not the argument. Both works find their structure in the listener's attention rather than the maker's display.
Music
1 work
Mali · Music
Aman Iman: Water Is Life
Tinariwen · 2007
Tinariwen's Tuareg blues hold a single mode for minutes at a time, the way 'So What' holds D Dorian. Their guitars carry the same desert openness Davis brought into the studio.
Anime
1 work
Japan · Anime
Mushi-Shi
Hiroshi Nagahama · 2005
Each episode resolves only when silence arrives, the way Davis's sketches resolve only when the next chorus declines to return. Mushi-Shi listens to the field in the same modal way.