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Post by Infinite Ego on Apr 21, 2011 22:16:26 GMT -5
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Post by jahloon on Apr 22, 2011 3:21:55 GMT -5
Bloody wonderful!
A great start to Easter
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Post by aliensporebomb on Apr 22, 2011 21:53:46 GMT -5
It's great but it also reminds me a little bit of a hoax myself and a bandmate put on called Mujedo that actually caused some people to be fooled into believing it was real. Read it: pod.ath.cx/mujedo.html |
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Post by Infinite Ego on Apr 22, 2011 22:27:42 GMT -5
Mujedo Tells You What To Do
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Post by aliensporebomb on Apr 22, 2011 23:13:12 GMT -5
There's actually two real mujedo tracks we did too.
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Post by Infinite Ego on Apr 22, 2011 23:33:44 GMT -5
I think I'll do a track called Bofatron Tells Mujedo What To Do ;-)
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Post by dasein on Apr 23, 2011 8:34:23 GMT -5
The article is pretty interesting, and unfortunately not surprising. It seems that the context of any medium - whether it's music, visual arts, literature, philosophy, and whether we're determining it's place in the "Canon" or what precisely it's signifying - is told to us.
I still think that, with regards to music, there is something wired in us with regards to the overtone series. It predominates too much of the music of the world for me to consider it a coincidence, and it's reasonable to me that it functions similar to how Chomsky thinks we're hardwired for language. But how we process and understand the overtone series, how we contextualize it and use it in art, that seems to me to be entirely a social process. And like Chomsky, I'm probably way off. ;D
That said, Chuck Klosterman just annoys the hell out of me like few other writers.
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Post by Infinite Ego on Apr 23, 2011 9:48:43 GMT -5
Chomsky makes sense if you conflate simple sign systems and complex symbol systems under the same category of 'language.' Doesn't work in my book. Even if we mix them together under 'language' it glosses over more than it reveals.
'Music' is a social category with origins in religious rites. There is something like 160,000 - 200,000 years of history whereby anatomically modern humans made no music at all as far as anybody can discern. Everything changes about 40,000-50,000 years ago with the birth of what we now call 'morality.' We gave up instincts, simple sings, etc., for socialization and symbols and concepts.
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Post by dasein on Apr 23, 2011 23:12:29 GMT -5
Linguistics reminds me of Stanislaw Lem's "Solaris."
Scientists find a planet with a massive ocean that appears to be sentient. They meticulously catalog all its various fluctuations and run it through rigorous analysis, but they have no idea why it does any of it, or what any of it actually means.
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