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You’ve walked into a room where Sesame Street is playing on a television (this is still a conceivable possibility). You’re carrying a copy of ‘The Communist Manifesto’. Since this is tumblr, you’ve been putting in research time as you flesh out your Marx and Engels fanfic (obviously shipping the two, it’s ridiculous to even ask). The Invasion of Ukraine has been on your mind. Suddenly you’re struck by a brain aneurysm. This video is what that experience felt like (which, good for you, you survived).
A snippet of conversation from Reddit regarding Elon Musk’s acquisition of twitter and some of his planned changes to the platform that amused me.
Brief aside: can you fucking imagine spending $46.5 billion on a social media platform simply to assuage one’s own ego with an expensively empty act of self aggrandizement? I mean, the man is putting in “$21bn of his own equity and a further $12.5bn loan secured against his Tesla stake.” To buy a social media platform. Imagine all the possible public good one could engage in if one had either the imagination or a soul to do so. It’s baffling. Billionaires shouldn’t exist and this is just example [fill in number here].
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I leave it up to you to extract the metaphor being played out in this animated short.
I’ve been melancholic and re-visiting albums that complement my mood. While digging through my music collection I came across the experimental electro-art pop of K Á R Y Y N, a Syrian-Armenian American LA-based composer-producer. ‘The Quanta Series’ compiles a series of EPs released throughout 2018 but they feel like one complete project/album when absorbed as a whole. Suitable audio accoutrement for melancholy.
Here’s a bit from a piece on K Á R Y Y N:
“I have been for a long time now obsessed with [the idea of] computers gaining consciousness,” says K Á R Y Y N, who calls herself “a visual composer”, and talks about her music using the language of synaesthesia: describing sounds as colors and physical textures. “I processed the sounds I had made for something else and it just sort of spit out this thing for me which instantly sounded like a very metallic, magnetic gravel; really fertile wire mesh; a little bit of lavender tulle.”
When I ask which artists have influenced her sound, she’s quick to correct my phrasing, noting that she’s inspired by rather than directly influenced by the musicians she loves.. “I’m a huge John Tavener fan, I love Arvo Pärt,” she says of the classical choral music she’s currently obsessing over, though she maintains that she’s more influenced by the audio minutiae of the everyday. “I wouldn’t really say I’m a singer; I would say that I emote [vocally],” she tells me. “I’m very influenced by the sounds that make up daily life. The work is made up a lot of my voice, processed to sound like other things.” (Source)
Hiromi Uehara is a joy to watch as she dances across a piano’s keys doing her thing. Uehara is a Japanese Jazz composer who seamlessly blends different genres in her compositions. This is an example of her doing just that. Uehara takes Pachelbel’s Canon in directions he never imagined and one that probably irritates classical purists. The jazz is gradually introduced as Uehara heats up her hands and I dig what she does around the 5:25 mark or so where she really lets that virtuoso reputation she has shine. Watching her enjoy herself as she jams out is icing on the cake.
Franz Müller-Münster (1867-1936), ‘Die Heilige Cäcilie’ (Saint Cecilia), “Moderne Kunst”, 1913-14
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“Saint Cecilia (Latin:Sancta Caecilia) was a Roman martyr venerated in Catholic, Orthodox, Anglican, and some Lutheran churches, such as the Church of Sweden. She became the patroness of music and musicians, it being written that, as the musicians played at her wedding, Cecilia “sang in her heart to the Lord”. Musical compositions are dedicated to her, and her feast, on 22 November, is the occasion of concerts and musical festivals.” (Source)
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I’m just going to leave this here. It’s a bit sedate for my tastes given the subject and could use a few tablespoons of anger (that’s the hardcore punk in me demanding more urgency). I dig the snark though.
