Comments | moshez: Of Music and Science Fiction

moshez

Of Music and Science Fiction

Jun 09, 2007 10:43

As people who know me have realized, I have finally discovered an interest in music, after 30 or so years of being mostly uninterested in it. This is largely thanks to filk, which I only seriously discovered a year ago. I have been a serial reader for as long I remember myself. This is probably to the early discovery (1st grade? 2nd grade?) of ( Read more... )

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omerm July 15 2007, 17:59:39 UTC

Can filk be considered a music, if it is what filkers do when they happen to get together, i.e. an activity?

omerm July 15 2007, 18:01:38 UTC

congratulations, btw. welcome to the wonderful world of abstracting feelings by use of multiple waves of different length.

omerm July 15 2007, 18:06:37 UTC

it may be that you will enjoy certain classical pieces more than modern music, as in nineteenth century people were, in fact, eager to write fantastic pieces.
Today music (I mean music and not the pop culture, which is different) is much more introvertive, and I dare to suggest you will not enjoy pouring someone's perception of everyday's life as much as you could enjoy a good fabula, interesting heroes, untrivial decisions, convincing villians and fascinating actions you can find in classical pieces.