Aesthetic Theory written by Theodor Adorno

buongiorno:

theoneyoureallylove:

buongiorno:

theoneyoureallylove:

Amanda, I am so glad that you posted this.

I know, I can’t wait to read that instead of articles about Neoclassical figurative painting haha.

I’m kind of loving my reading at the moment.  These articles, Albert Camus, random prose from new friends, how to formulate logical arguements, and beer.

I like mine as well, but I regret not signing up for the theory class too. All the people in that class are complaining writing about theory, which is slightly annoying, because I’d rather be talking about that than how Napoleon was falsely portrayed through paintings which were commissioned and paid for by the government by frenchy painter types (which yes, I know this is incredibly bitter, it’s just history painting is not my cup of tea, as nice as it can be). Thank goodness we just got to Romanticism and Enlightenment this week!  Camus sounds like a lot of fun, I’ve not read him, but I read Fun Home which sort of had all these strange connections to his life. Also, formulating logical arguments = win.

Hooray Adorno!  Us musicology dorks read him too.  He’s actually a big-deal 20th century musicologist, having studied with Alban Berg, and, despite the absolutely tragic translations of his lectures from what I’m told is their fabulously witty and erudite original German, he’s still pretty awesome.  His ideas on music analysis have basically shaped the 20th century in musicology.

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“The Park (Privacy Rules)”, excerpted from Perfect Lives- Robert Ashley

Monday is a great time for Robert Ashley.

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mills:

Lachrymarum - Stan Douglas

This, from the re-imagining by Stan Douglas (with John Medeski and Scott Harding) of the soundtrack for the Italian horror film Suspiria, is scientifically-proven to be the scariest song ever.

Feel free to use it to keep trick-or-treaters away.

Wow. Well, this is basically my favorite thing.

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elegantsips: boysugar: Today I was listening to Kate Bush on my way to work, then a friend I love sent me a text message with Kate Bush lyrics and after that, another friend told me that today, when she was walking, she felt like Kate Bush in The Sensual World video. Today is Kate Bush day. Kate Bush everyday! Yeah, you know the rules.

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boysugar:

Today I was listening to Kate Bush on my way to work, then a friend I love sent me a text message with Kate Bush lyrics and after that, another friend told me that today, when she was walking, she felt like Kate Bush in The Sensual World video.

Today is Kate Bush day.

Kate Bush everyday!

Yeah, you know the rules.

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Dan Deacon and Jimmy Joe Roche - Ultimate Reality - Chapter 3 - Part 2 (via limpviscid)

Really, if you have ten dollars, now or at any subsequent point in your life, you should buy Dan Deacon and Jimmy Joe Roche’s “Ultimate Reality” and watch it constantly.  Until then, enjoy Chapter 3, Part 2.  If you like minimalism, intermedia art, collage, Philip Glass, psychedelia, or Arnold Schwarzeneger movies, you’ll love this.  If you don’t like any of these things, you should not follow this blog.

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asmodestasdillinger:

Incarnated Solvent Abuse - Carcass (Necroticism - Descanting the Insalubrious. Earache Records, 1992).

“Necrotism”-era Carcass (any Carcass, really)=Automatic Reblog.

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This came in the mail today.  It’s the side project of Zombi’s drummer, A.E. Paterra, and it’s more of the same sweet sweet space rock/Berlin School goodness that I love so much.  I love getting new vinyl.  The tangibility of it, the small rituals of playing and listening to it, the immersiveness of the experience: it’s all very exciting to me.  I only buy a certain type of music on vinyl: it’s not out of any sonic preference (although almost everything sounds more interesting on vinyl, as a consequence of how vinyl is mastered), but because only a certain type of music fits my vinyl listening experience.  Whereas I usually listen to music for its content, listening to music on vinyl is the one time I listen to music where the experience and the materiality of the format are more important than the actual information being communicated.  I listen to vinyl to have an immersive, trance-like listening experience, and so I find that I can really only listen to minimalism, or Kraut-rock, or other gradual, repetitive music. I’m going to put this on my turntable now, and put on my headphones, and happily drift off to sleep.

This came in the mail today.  It’s the side project of Zombi’s drummer, A.E. Paterra, and it’s more of the same sweet sweet space rock/Berlin School goodness that I love so much.  I love getting new vinyl.  The tangibility of it, the small rituals of playing and listening to it, the immersiveness of the experience: it’s all very exciting to me.  I only buy a certain type of music on vinyl: it’s not out of any sonic preference (although almost everything sounds more interesting on vinyl, as a consequence of how vinyl is mastered), but because only a certain type of music fits my vinyl listening experience.  Whereas I usually listen to music for its content, listening to music on vinyl is the one time I listen to music where the experience and the materiality of the format are more important than the actual information being communicated.  I listen to vinyl to have an immersive, trance-like listening experience, and so I find that I can really only listen to minimalism, or Kraut-rock, or other gradual, repetitive music.

I’m going to put this on my turntable now, and put on my headphones, and happily drift off to sleep.

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clifferded: Retail Therapy! Vallejo Rasputin suceeded with the Battles EP where every place in Sac has failed. Dude, you are going to have a kickass next couple of days.  Both of these are slammin’.

clifferded:

Retail Therapy! Vallejo Rasputin suceeded with the Battles EP where every place in Sac has failed.

Dude, you are going to have a kickass next couple of days.  Both of these are slammin’.

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buongiorno: From the back of the record: “Perhaps the most striking thing, harmonically, is the juxtapositioning of triadic chords and the interval of the tritone. Stravinsky’s triadic chords are sometimes uncomplicated diatonic affairs specifically intended as accompaniments, sometimes more complex, modally-derived structures or combinations of differing chords belonging to the same key. The tritone, on the other hand, is generally employed melodically - except for the famous “Petrushka Chord”, where it has an additional harmonic function. Bitonality was anything but usual in the early part of the century, and so the “Petrushka Chord” (i.e. two simultaneously-sounded major triads a tritone apart, based on C and F-sharp) was considered quite adventurous in 1911. Even more singular was the assignment to this tritone of a dominant, unifying role throughout a markedly heterogeneous composition, in effect making it a kind of leitmotiv. The composer once related: “I had conceived of the music in two keys in the Second Tableau, as Petrushka’s insult to the public, and I wanted a dialouge for trumpets in two keys at the end to that his ghost is still insulting the public.” A deft touch, indeed. And, because Petruska’s “insulting” motive seems always to be lurking nearby - sublty suggested by numerous triadic arpeggios nd the omnipresent tritone -  this device is at least partly responsible for that peculiar ambiguity between the real an the imagined that, ultimately, constitutes the magic of Petrushka.” Saturday morning listen. This is a GREAT recording.  Boulez is a badass.  Coincidentally, Stony Brook Symphony just played this: my roommate played on it and said it was RIDICULOUSLY hard to play, which I believe with no reservations whatsoever.

buongiorno:

From the back of the record:

“Perhaps the most striking thing, harmonically, is the juxtapositioning of triadic chords and the interval of the tritone. Stravinsky’s triadic chords are sometimes uncomplicated diatonic affairs specifically intended as accompaniments, sometimes more complex, modally-derived structures or combinations of differing chords belonging to the same key. The tritone, on the other hand, is generally employed melodically - except for the famous “Petrushka Chord”, where it has an additional harmonic function.

Bitonality was anything but usual in the early part of the century, and so the “Petrushka Chord” (i.e. two simultaneously-sounded major triads a tritone apart, based on C and F-sharp) was considered quite adventurous in 1911. Even more singular was the assignment to this tritone of a dominant, unifying role throughout a markedly heterogeneous composition, in effect making it a kind of leitmotiv. The composer once related: “I had conceived of the music in two keys in the Second Tableau, as Petrushka’s insult to the public, and I wanted a dialouge for trumpets in two keys at the end to that his ghost is still insulting the public.” A deft touch, indeed. And, because Petruska’s “insulting” motive seems always to be lurking nearby - sublty suggested by numerous triadic arpeggios nd the omnipresent tritone -  this device is at least partly responsible for that peculiar ambiguity between the real an the imagined that, ultimately, constitutes the magic of Petrushka.”

Saturday morning listen.

This is a GREAT recording.  Boulez is a badass.  Coincidentally, Stony Brook Symphony just played this: my roommate played on it and said it was RIDICULOUSLY hard to play, which I believe with no reservations whatsoever.

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asmodestasdillinger: Maryland Deathfest VIII Current Line-Up. Wow. My dick’s brain just exploded. Who wants to go to Maryland to get sonically skull fucked by the likes of GORGUTS! Gridlink! Fuck the Facts! Portal! Magrudergrind! CONVERGE! EyeHateGod! Autopsy! and Vancouver’s own MASSGRAVE! ? Because I FUCKING DO!!! 3 Day passes are only 130 bucks (American, but that isn’t any skin off my back). I need to go to this eventually, if not this year and every year after. I routinely kick myself in uncomfortable ways for missing out on Brutal Truth, Pig Destroyer and Atheist at last year’s. So I owe it to myself to get on the ball for this one. I am pumped for basically every band on here.  And, y’know, fests in general.  Festing is one of my favorite summer activities, and I can GO to MDF this year!  I plan to take a train to it, just in case you were wondering, because a train is one of the most metal ways to travel.

asmodestasdillinger:

Maryland Deathfest VIII Current Line-Up.

Wow. My dick’s brain just exploded.

Who wants to go to Maryland to get sonically skull fucked by the likes of GORGUTS! Gridlink! Fuck the Facts! Portal! Magrudergrind! CONVERGE! EyeHateGod! Autopsy! and Vancouver’s own MASSGRAVE! ?

Because I FUCKING DO!!!

3 Day passes are only 130 bucks (American, but that isn’t any skin off my back). I need to go to this eventually, if not this year and every year after. I routinely kick myself in uncomfortable ways for missing out on Brutal Truth, Pig Destroyer and Atheist at last year’s. So I owe it to myself to get on the ball for this one.

I am pumped for basically every band on here.  And, y’know, fests in general.  Festing is one of my favorite summer activities, and I can GO to MDF this year!  I plan to take a train to it, just in case you were wondering, because a train is one of the most metal ways to travel.

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