SR XXXII: Ascension

CCVP wrote: You know Loek, srsly now, the dissonance so characteristic of music written since the second half of the XX c. is nothing but a way to masque the player's lack of ability or intimacy with its instrument. No bullsh*t. Classical composers were particularly enthusiastic in defending that because it was very true in the beginings if atonal, dodecaphonic music and experimental classical. Let this sink in for a second there.

CCVP wrote: harmonium.ro wrote: Why did T make Henry cry? because he said the old shred title (shriendship is magic) was lame. Being the fruitcake that he is, Henners cried his heart out.

Yeah, I can visualize that.

CCVP wrote: You know Loek, srsly now, the dissonance so characteristic of music written since the second half of the XX c. is nothing but a way to masque the player's lack of ability or intimacy with its instrument. No bullsh*t. Classical composers were particularly enthusiastic in defending that because it was very true in the beginings if atonal, dodecaphonic music and experimental classical. Let this sink in for a second there.

I have no clue about modernist music, but this idea is a very well spread cliche in the world of the visual arts. Actually, most of the abstract painters and sculptors were amazing technicians, well versed with the formal language of their art. Simplicity was in their case the end of an evolution that implied a lot of thought and practice with form.

Any Colour You Like wrote: CCVP wrote: You know, srsly now, the dissonance so characteristic of music written since the second half of the XX c. is nothing but a way to masque the player's lack of ability or intimacy with its instrument. No bullsh*t. Classical composers were particularly enthusiastic in defending that because it was very true in the beginings if atonal, dodecaphonic music and experimental classical. Let this sink in for a second there.   No   U mad?

No, I am not. That is the very unadulterated truth. Many composers on Brasil and abroad (Europe mainly) destroyed their original handwritten scores because they believe that music had either degradeted to a point beyond return and that those things needed to be destroyed or that those things would not survive outside the ranks of pseudo-intellectuals who could not understand music and actual educated and studied people who could understand the music purely on its technicality.

My mother did her Masters thesis on Music on this theme (contemporary music), so I have a huge source of information / material on that.


Edited by CCVP - March 02 2011 at 17:44

Any Colour You Like wrote: harmonium.ro wrote: Any Colour You Like wrote: I have a guitar. Will travel?   Of course.

Be careful with than man wanting to make a deal with you, at the crossroad.

harmonium.ro wrote: Any Colour You Like wrote: I have a guitar. Will travel?

You know Loek, srsly now, the dissonance so characteristic of music written since the second half of the XX c. is nothing but a way to masque the player's lack of ability or intimacy with its instrument. No bullsh*t. Classical composers were particularly enthusiastic in defending that because it was very true in the beginings if atonal, dodecaphonic music and experimental classical.

Let this sink in for a second there.


Edited by CCVP - March 02 2011 at 17:39

I have a guitar.

CCVP wrote: The Sleepwalker wrote: CCVP wrote: harmonium.ro wrote: The Sleepwalker wrote: Polo wrote: Who's that chick on your profile pic, Sleepwalker? Cat Power, Cat Power, Cat Power.  Nice. That's quite a chick to have a fetish with. Do you have sexual atraction for people that can't play the guitar? Jeez, I'd better never come near you braw. . . . At least there is emotion in her music. DT fan rite? LOL, right, emotion huh? As if that's magically going to make up for not having a crucial ability when it coms to playing an instrument. What's next, people trying to drive a car without fuel?

She can play guitar.