Monday, 2 April 2018

Organ Grinding: When the Audience Revolted at Carnegie Hall

quote [ At one point, an older woman approached the stage, took off a shoe, and banged it on the stage, imploring the ensemble to stop. Someone else sprinted down an aisle, yelling, β€œAll right! I confess!” ]

Bend over, I'll grind your organ.
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arrowhen said @ 7:35am GMT on 4th April
I think I would have liked it more if it sounded either better or worse.

Like, "better sounding" would be replace the cheesy organs with nice creamy analog synths with a bit of tempo-synced delay, a steady 909 kick underneath, and a lush evolving pad in the background, while "worse sounding" would be like that period in the mid-80s where industrial music had grown out of its "banging on cement mixers and shouting in German" phase but hadn't yet entered its "Pet Shop Boys, only angry" phase.

Either way would be a little more fun to listen to in the short term (at least if you're into that sort of thing), but they'd also remind you of genres that employ extensive repetition, which would set you up with expectations which the music would then subvert as it changed slowly over time.


arrowhen said @ 7:36am GMT on 4th April
I think I would have liked it more if it sounded either better or worse.

Like, "better sounding" would be replacing the cheesy organs with nice creamy analog synths with a bit of tempo-synced delay, a steady 909 kick underneath, and a lush evolving pad in the background, while "worse sounding" would be like that period in the mid-80s where industrial music had grown out of its "banging on cement mixers and shouting in German" phase but hadn't yet entered its "Pet Shop Boys, only angry" phase.

Either way would be a little more fun to listen to in the short term (at least if you're into that sort of thing), but they'd also remind you of genres that employ extensive repetition, which would set you up with expectations which the music would then subvert as it changed slowly over time.



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arrowhen said @ 7:35am GMT on 4th April
I think I would have liked it more if it sounded either better or worse.

Like, "better sounding" would be replacing the cheesy organs with nice creamy analog synths with a bit of tempo-synced delay, a steady 909 kick underneath, and a lush evolving pad in the background, while "worse sounding" would be like that period in the mid-80s where industrial music had grown out of its "banging on cement mixers and shouting in German" phase but hadn't yet entered its "Pet Shop Boys, only angry" phase.

Either way would be a little more fun to listen to in the short term (at least if you're into that sort of thing), but they'd also remind you of genres that employ extensive repetition, which would set you up with expectations which the music would then subvert as it changed slowly over time.




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