Post #131,309
12/17/03 10:55:37 PM
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Well then...
...I suppose I should pitch everything released since...what 1867...as it obviously has no value.
Maybe there'a a C played by the 3rd chair flute that I missed in the concerto that I might hear if i listen another 50 times.
Variety is the spice of life dude...and I like it hot!
If you push something hard enough, it will fall over. Fudd's First Law of Opposition
It goes in, it must come out.Teslacle's Deviant to Fudd's Law
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Post #131,312
12/17/03 11:07:58 PM
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old people are annoyed by loud unexpected noise :-)
but Ash prefers a non backbeat so he can lose it and since zappa is in the playlist he can be forgiven :-) there is more to tunes than strings and thumping. I like both. Throat singing is an art of its own and I would be surprised if many here have listened to it.
thanx,
bill
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Post #131,316
12/18/03 1:48:20 AM
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Throat singing?
Are you thinking like the Gyuto monks?
That's in my playlist as well. :-)
Cheers,
Ben
"good ideas and bad code build communities, the other three combinations do not"
- [link|http://archives.real-time.com/pipermail/cocoon-devel/2000-October/003023.html|Stefano Mazzocchi]
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Post #131,317
12/18/03 3:24:34 AM
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Good timimg - the Tuva folk are coming
And may be on my playlist.
BTW - a sudden loud musical passage is called a sforzando; it may be surprising, but rarely annoying. Now a sudden loud noise - is a sudden loud noise. (And I heard that I didn't like those at age 2 weeks any more than, today, you coming-up-on old fart ;-)
moi
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Post #131,318
12/18/03 3:55:10 AM
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Tuva and Inuit among others
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Post #131,319
12/18/03 4:09:47 AM
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Nahh.. no need.
Wouldn't dream of inflicting my peculiarities on other peculiar ones. But this-all is &^$&#$ weird...
As the Emperor observed to Mozart (poetic license, I suspect) "there are only so many notes a human can listen to in an evening". Yes of course - that was silly, but an earlier Rumsfeld must have whispered it into his shell-like.
I think you should go for 50,000! - as it seems these cuts are being rolled out, now exponentially (and at $18 a pop, and with knowledge of commodity Econ -- well, 'exponential' seems about the proper shape for that production curve?) Perhaps more Is better. How could the market be wrong?
Still.. possibly all your neurons are full; lessee:
At say, 5 min per song, that present mere 25000 means ~415 hours, so if the earbuds go in at 7am and come out at 11pm (and say an hour off for shower, dinner) ~~ every 26 days you can hear the same song repeat. Now at 50,000, it would be more like every 52. Of course if you fall off the schedule.. might be a bit longer before Song 1 hits again.
As I said, can't imagine even the 25K, even with a normal attention span assisted by chemical substances. So now I have to wonder if maybe I've missed a genetic change; whereby the beat IS the new master clock, replacing the jelloware one.. whose organic CMOS battery had died from disuse, or lack of any silence in which to recharge.
(So then, if you stopped it.. would the alpha rhythm cease too?)
Nope, just can't get it! Seems that my master clock doesn't wish to be speeded up so as to cram more notes/second into it (but I can keep up with Perpetuum Mobile).
Ashton,
either I'm a retard - or youse guys are mutants
or both :-\ufffd
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Post #131,330
12/18/03 8:20:21 AM
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Now you start to see....
...no there are not...too many notes.
Nor are there...too many songs.
I occassionally will listen to something a couple of times in a week. Amazing as it may seem.
Unlimited variety that can be tailored to any whim, mood or fancy.
I think its cool.
If you push something hard enough, it will fall over. Fudd's First Law of Opposition
It goes in, it must come out.Teslacle's Deviant to Fudd's Law
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Post #131,331
12/18/03 8:31:00 AM
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Wow, a few times a week...
Sometimes I listen to the same song for a week... ;-)
I did that with the Optiganally Yours song.
For those of you who don't know, an optigan is a cheesy OPTIcal orGAN made by Mattel back in the 70's.
It's almost completely mechanical. The sound comes from disks with visual wave forms recorded on them. The disks are spun, light is shown through, and a photoreceptor picks up the waves for conversion into sound.
Since the disks spin, there's no attack on the notes. :-) The disks have things like drum phrases, saxophones, big band hits, and even howling monkeys (from the Polynesian theme disk).
Volume control is accomplished by raising and lowering a translucent sheet in front of the photoreceptor, causing a decrease or increase in signal strength.
Pitch control is accomplished by varying the speed of the disk spindle.
Very goofy all around, but fun to listen to.
Regards,
-scott anderson
"Welcome to Rivendell, Mr. Anderson..."
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Post #131,346
12/18/03 9:49:49 AM
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same album for 2 months*
I don't get "stuck on" an album very often. The last time was over the summer - [link|http://www.btmusic.com/|BT's] Emotional Technology.
* only during drive time, 60+ minutes a day
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Post #131,469
12/19/03 5:20:19 AM
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That sounds cool!
I've heard about the famous Hammond Organ tone wheels - I haven't heard about an optical version from Mattel... Silly thing is, I think I could almost build one myself, based you your description.
I also listen to the same songs for ages. You're going to cringe, but at the moment I keep coming back to Holly Valance's latest ("State of Mind") and Kylie Minogue's "Light Years". :-)
Wade.
Is it enough to love
Is it enough to breathe
Somebody rip my heart out
And leave me here to bleed
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Is it enough to die
Somebody save my life
I'd rather be Anything but Ordinary
Please
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Post #131,356
12/18/03 10:50:23 AM
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Humans can remember more music than you would think
I have about 3300 in my current playlist. From the intros I recognized the first 5 I looked at in random play. The next was Diana Krall's version of 'S Wonderful which I recognized of course, but whose intro was generic enough that I didn't recognize it.
For the record, the others were Natalie Merchant's Henry Darger, Solas The Vega Set (Jigs), Lunasa Dr. Gilbert /Devils of Dublin /Black Pat's, Gordon Lightfoot Cotton Jenny and Great Big Sea Donkey Riding.
Heck, you might even like one or two of them if you tried them. (And I say this as someone who likely appreciates electric guitar less than you do.)
Cheers,
Ben
"good ideas and bad code build communities, the other three combinations do not"
- [link|http://archives.real-time.com/pipermail/cocoon-devel/2000-October/003023.html|Stefano Mazzocchi]
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Post #131,435
12/18/03 6:51:23 PM
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Point taken.
Yes, even moi recognize a touch of genius in some contemporary material, as accidentally encountered.. merely, rarely. Ditto re folk (now a most international and varied genre; it's the Irish\ufffd Era!) and jazz remains unclassifiable, as at best: it IS improv.
I have to concede that - the kinds of musical clues which jog memory - seem ~ inexhaustible. For ex. there is a ditty which NPR insists upon playing (as they more and more emulate the let-no-moment-of-Silence-happen mantra). It is clearly the same chord-run as in a Xian doxology! merely.. syncopated. (And if you listen to NPR, you've Heard It - so did you? ;-)
Guess must eat words suggesting that 25K might be Huge. Still, what memes we use for ID clearly rely upon differences.. and when those vanish, so does recognition, por moi. (Not to beat further a decayed horse - I find most guitar riffs thus, indistinguishable cut&paste)
Simon & Garfunkel a la '70s -- as noninterchangeable, maybe even indispensable as.. as Beatles IMjO. Also The Band - something undefinably Different there...
Cheers,
I.
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Post #131,461
12/18/03 11:29:04 PM
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to around the other side
exiting a concert have a genius with several 5 gallon plastic jugs of various density, rousing banging with searing poetry. Is it music or theater? Dunno but it was worth tossing him a fiver in recognition of genius. We also have a saxaphonist who staions himself so the echoes resound thru a parking garage. It is haunting, perhaps intentionally so. I would love to get a movie director to hear this guy just once and it would be a great opener for a gritty city type drama.
thanx,
bill
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Post #131,599
12/19/03 8:12:21 PM
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Heard similar.. trumpet, flute
Various interestingly formed stairwells, etc. ~ Berkeley (and such are all over, of course). The reverb time. Think cathedrals. You can do lots with that, but best if you start with good musicianship, command of the instrument or..
It's just fuzz, too.
BTW - I have to confess (despising overblown sax maybe even more than lectric stuff) I've heard a sax played with 'genius' - both in a concerto and free form. It's very difficult to play Well, IME.. but it's justifiably an instrument - in the hands of the very few.
Ashton, crank
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Post #131,466
12/19/03 4:03:37 AM
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Stop waffing around.
Go and buy the album "Ace Of Spades" by Motorhead.
Now listen, and consider yourself in the presence of genius.
Peter
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Post #131,598
12/19/03 8:06:42 PM
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OK you're on..
I'll risk it and see. At least I'll get a guess as how your neuron soup osmoses.. :-\ufffd
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Post #131,442
12/18/03 7:34:52 PM
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Even sharper
It's very easy to pick out a given pianist that you "groove on", playing the same piece with the same dynamics and the same approach to the identical score of the very same piece. Whatever we hear, it is a lot more than notes.
And in any case, "thousands" is much smaller than it seems. Divide by 10 to get "hundreds" of albums - I'm not even a big collector of CDs and I have at least 100. I can well imagine an aficionado like Beep or Scott having 2000 or more. If I had infinite money, I could occupy weeks just shopping for music.
-drl
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