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[poorernie]

music theory 101: A (over 99

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[neuroticmeeps]

ASU deserves death.

[poorernie]

death to ass-you

[destroycarthage]

Your cricket anomaly may be explained by this article on autotomy, the voluntary shedding of limbs.

Also, a friend of mine (lj user: tangent_reis) and I formed a noise group about a year ago. We were called '1347' (first year of the Black Plague in Europe), and I still have a lot of our raw material if you're interested. He was extremely fascinated by dronology, whereas I was more rhythmically oriented. This dichotomy is apparent in our work, which I think is what ultimately caused us both to become disillusioned with the whole thing.

[poorernie]

noise is teh awesome. now here's something to be posited: is noise music or performance art? I find myself relating noise more to an exhibit in a modern art museum, with insanely sweaty artsies bouncing around in the pain instead of quietly engaging in commentary. as for music, noise has its origins in music, wherefrom it extracted the psychologically dionysiac attributes attributed to raw dissonance, and the "anti-theory" chaotic elements characteristic to cheap electronics. as for noise that was created in the home studio...as for any sculpted sound, this has a strongest semblence to sculpture.

as for that article, I should check it out. plus, I think you sent me an email already in aol, but I'd have to check. jovial lax me. yayay

[destroycarthage]

If by music you mean something that can be reproduced infinitely, or something that is planned or can be diagrammed, then I don’t think that music itself is music. I mean, in many ways, all music is noise…however, not all music is Noise music. I guess what I’m trying to say is that music can be performed repetitiously, but everytime is different from the last. Even music generated in the bowels of an electronic synthesizer, although capable of maintaining exactly the same tone, etc., in each (mechanical) reproduction, each note is still confined to a linear temporal structure, i.e. each note must come after the preceding note. So, if we have a phrase that is repeated ad infinitum, then we have the issue of whether or not to establish what would appear to be an arbitrary beginning and end, or do we look at each note individually? A ‘song’ is just such an arbitrary delineation of beginning and end, because really, the song must be expanded to infinity in order to escape its temporal fixedness

[destroycarthage]

On Kant’s thing-in-itself, if taken aesthetically, this would mean that music is really just noise that the ear intelligently reorganizes into patterns that we can understand. This would mean that, as I said earlier, all music is noise, but Noise music would be music that disrupts the organizing principles of the listener.

It makes sense in a way, that music is only music if there is someone to listen to it, or that painting is only painting if there is someone to look at it, otherwise it is all just rubbish that no one can perceive, sort of like microbes or something. Art, based as it is on physical sensation, means nothing if it cannot be sensed. The infinite in art is transmitted through the finite, but for people who cannot grasp the medium, well they would be like cockroaches crawling along with out antennae (pure chaos).

[ceramufary]

Testing out of stuff is always good, because it means you have hours you can spend on something else, not on something you already know.

[poorernie]

tricky tricky!! I need to talk to the right people then