Audis are ugly.
Awesome! I hope the States get a similar set next time. I would really love to hear all 4 tracks from Haunting The Chapel.
Slightly different set tonight, can’t remember what they took out, but they played World Painted Blood, Implode, Payback and Disciple. Good show, i managed to get a Kerry King plectrum too.
And how about food? Oh, let me guess, you think filet mignon is tasty and so is seared ahi and maybe even foie gras? BOOOOOORRRRRIIIINNNGGG!!!
I hate those “family friendly” restaurants. you know, the ones with a salad bar and a dessert bar and where every meal is served with about a ton of chips (french fries). Lasagne and CHIPS. Burger and CHIPS. Fish and CHIPS. CHIPS CHIPS CHIPS!!
And you’re always seated next to some annoying family with loud, rude children who can’t sit still and run around the restaurant chasing each other. Either that or some rude childless couple who stare at you everytime you open your mouth to speak or accidently drop the cutlery.
I hate them.
I guess I am elitist in some ways…
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Yeah, these might be extreme and ridiculous examples, but when someone blows this “I like shit no one likes so I must be BETTER than them” smoke, that’s exactly what it comes across like to me.
I was like that at 21. In fact I was an extreme example of that. And as you could well imagine, I…didn’t have many friends. Most people at the college I was at thought I was a weird, angsty loner. I didn’t get invited to ONE single party that whole year. And college is ALL about parties.
I didn’t even have a 21st birthday of my own.
So, generally speaking, people who are like that are usually compensating for some trauma that they are enduring.
I am elite and Fennesz is yawn inspiring. So there.
I often find beauty amongst the chaos. For me personally, “music” like that is all about creating imaginary worlds inside your head. I find it very easy to get lost in. With the standard “verse chorus verse” music one encounters in modern rock radio, I find that impossible to lose myself in it. It gets the adrenalin pumping if it’s fast or tears me up if the lyrics are sad but it’s not really the same thing.
With music like Fennesz, I feel like I am “pleasantly drowning” in the sound. It totally engulfs me and takes me away to a “place” that is beyond words.
That’s my own special take on it anyway. I like music that ebbs and flows and changes shape. It’s mysterious.
I often find beauty amongst the chaos. For me personally, “music” like that is all about creating imaginary worlds inside your head. I find it very easy to get lost in. With the standard “verse chorus verse” music one encounters in modern rock radio, I find that impossible to lose myself in it. It gets the adrenalin pumping if it’s fast or tears me up if the lyrics are sad but it’s not really the same thing.
For me, even with really good rock music I still find it’s impossible for me to shake the mental image of a group of guys playing music whenever I hear it. For whatever reason, I don’t encounter that with other, particularly electronic, musical styles…with those I experience a lot of borderline ‘synesthetic’ mental imagery. At certain high volume levels you can turn out the lights and experience all kinds of entopic visuals, good fun.
With music like Fennesz, I feel like I am “pleasantly drowning” in the sound. It totally engulfs me and takes me away to a “place” that is beyond words.
That’s my own special take on it anyway. I like music that ebbs and flows and changes shape. It’s mysterious.
The feeling of engulfment is I think the key to all that stuff. It’s why so-called noise is always more effective live - it’s to be felt more than heard; and to overwhelm you to the point where it bypasses conscious thought.
With music like Fennesz, I feel like I am “pleasantly drowning” in the sound. It totally engulfs me and takes me away to a “place” that is beyond words.
That’s my own special take on it anyway. I like music that ebbs and flows and changes shape. It’s mysterious.
Yep. That’s a pretty accurate description of how noise music moves me. It certainly takes you to a place where standard rock music rarely ventures.
Have you heard Fennesz’s first album, Hotel Parall.el? That one’s a little more abrasive and industrial sounding. Not as ethereal as Endless Summer. More like Endless Winter. A great listen nonetheless. His collaborations with Sakamoto are divinity in a handbasket.
Speaking of noise, I’ve been groovin to a lot of mid 90’s Merzbow recently - if groovin is the appropriate adjective to use in this instance.
Tauromachine, Venereology, Green Wheels, Smegma Plays Merzbow…painfully orgasmic!
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Slightly different set tonight, can’t remember what they took out, but they played World Painted Blood, Implode, Payback and Disciple. Good show, i managed to get a Kerry King plectrum too.
Same thing happened when I saw them on the Rape Of The World tour with Marilyn Manson in '07. I can’t remember what they took out from the first night, but they threw in “Payback” and “Bitter Peace.” I was especially stoked for the latter of those 2, even though Diabolus In Musica often gets a bad rep.
For me personally, “music” like that is all about creating imaginary worlds inside your head. I find it very easy to get lost in.
With music like Fennesz, I feel like I am “pleasantly drowning” in the sound. It totally engulfs me and takes me away to a “place” that is beyond words.
I got just that from jesu’s silver and even pale sketches, Why are we not perfect to a lesser extent and opiate was flat out un linstenable
I like music that ebbs and flows and changes shape. It’s mysterious.
That sounds like classical music. Surprised you’re not pushing any classical music
Saw Anthrax tonight, they were great, it was Among The Living and a few extra tracks, excellent show [:)]
That sounds like classical music. Surprised you’re not pushing any classical music
I’ve been meaning to push some classical, uh, jamz in the “what are you listening to…” thread, but it’s hard to do it in the same simple artist / album format that we normally use, since you have to take into account all the extra data like composer, orchestra / ensemble, concert venue, year of performance etc. Especially when you’re talking more heavily performed and recorded works.
I love the Russian composer Aleksandr Scriabin, he had plans to perform a piece called the Mysterium that was supposed to bring about the end of the world…there would be huge bells carried by zeppelins as part of the performance, among other wacky implausible things.
…there would be huge bells carried by zeppelins as part of the performance, among other wacky implausible things.
That actually sounds like it would be really cool.
That actually sounds like it would be really cool.
He also developed the first “clavier a lumieres” (light organ) that projected colored light in unison with audio tones. Certainly a forefather of the ‘light show’…and a very intense possessed guy overall.
It’s also speculated that he had plans in his notebooks for an entire white coofin orchestra, but the Great War intervened before this could come to pass…sad
Classical music is great. Here’s one I was rockin’ earlier (Josef Haydn). I think this old geezer is such a badass, shreddin’ on his cello.
Classical music is great. Here’s one I was rockin’ earlier (Josef Haydn). I think this old geezer is such a badass, shreddin’ on his cello.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eU5KdY_04kU
Yeah he was one of the greats, indeed.
There are scads of great and eerie recordings from 78rpm classical discs that have been uploaded to archive.org; though they’re obviously thinner sounding than anything on the market nowadays, it’s a great way to catch up to speed and hear some performances from people who were considered the best to ever play their respective instruments.
There are scads of great and eerie recordings from 78rpm classical discs that have been uploaded to archive.org; though they’re obviously thinner sounding than anything on the market nowadays, it’s a great way to catch up to speed and hear some performances from people who were considered the best to ever play their respective instruments.
Nice! Back when I was a kid my buddy and I used to sneak out on Wednesday nights and go trash-digging . . . basically going through people’s garbage the night before trash collection. One night I found this amazing classical collection. They were a bunch of really old 78’s from a big box set of some sort that had oodles of this stuff. One box was Mozart, one Beethoven, Bach, and so on. The records were really cool. Thickest, heaviest records I’ve ever handled. These things had some serious weight to them.
Nice! Back when I was a kid my buddy and I used to sneak out on Wednesday nights and go trash-digging . . . basically going through people’s garbage the night before trash collection. One night I found this amazing classical collection. They were a bunch of really old 78’s from a big box set of some sort that had oodles of this stuff. One box was Mozart, one Beethoven, Bach, and so on. The records were really cool. Thickest, heaviest records I’ve ever handled. These things had some serious weight to them.
Oh yeah, I still have a bunch of shellac 78s of some maudlin Croatian folk songs from one of my crazy uncles, who graciously dumped his record collection on me. Much of that collection was totally un-sellable thrift store goodness like “Boots Randolph’s Yakety Sax”, but I still do put those creepy sounding old singles to the turntable from time to time.
I go on vacation for 2.5 weeks and all hell breaks loose here! Damn!
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That actually sounds like it would be really cool.
He also developed the first “clavier a lumieres” (light organ) that projected colored light in unison with audio tones. Certainly a forefather of the ‘light show’…and a very intense possessed guy overall. [/reply]
Fantastic! I wonder if he was one of those savant fellas that saw music as color in his head and thats what gave him the idea to create that kind of organ
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That actually sounds like it would be really cool.
He also developed the first “clavier a lumieres” (light organ) that projected colored light in unison with audio tones. Certainly a forefather of the ‘light show’…and a very intense possessed guy overall. [/reply]
Fantastic! I wonder if he was one of those savant fellas that saw music as color in his head and thats what gave him the idea to create that kind of organ[/reply]
Synesthesia
Fantastic! I wonder if he was one of those savant fellas that saw music as color in his head and thats what gave him the idea to create that kind of organ
Yes, a lot of people thought he was a legitimate synesthete (meaning, born with the condition rather than just ‘training’ himself to have color / sound relationships over time.)
However ‘real’ synesthetes, who are a tiny fraction of the overall population, have those associations between sensory modes their entire life that a sound is yellow or apple-flavored or what have you. They’re neurologically wired like that and can’t change if they wanted to. Scriabin left behind a bunch of notebooks where he kept revising his system of color / sound correspondences, so he probably wasn’t born with that condition.
Am actually going to be releasing a book on this within the year, once the editor slices away the fat from it (no it’s not going to be one of those ‘Gerda’ things that I keep postponing for five years…)