The Pent Umbrage of the Tempy, Part XXIV
posted by Yusef Asabiyah at 5:20 PM
Monday, November 15, 2010
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- The Pent Umbrage of the Tempy, Part XVII
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4 Comments:
Haha .. Funny with such a continuity and it's all made up of small fragments of different melodies. That was really amazing. Music is very mysterious. I had the experience that for a moment, some of the mystery was lifted, and what I had a clear and distinct perception of as individual pieces (songs), could just as easily be one. Christoffer
It would be interesting to know if your feeling of the mystery being lifted was pleasant or not. Or what.
In gaining a deeper understanding of the way music is mass produced, having the mystery lifted could be pleasant. In seeing how one had been mystified by the formulaic, it might be a bit unpleasant.
One question on my mind is can we know the trick without losing the pleasure? Do we retain the pleasure, changed, because now in knowing it we can play it on someone else?
Or one last question for you: did you feel, as the mystery was lifted, you had gained access to the metaphysical: all is one?
-Yusef
From taking a look at the young girl, in the very forst frame of the video, I would think that perhaps she gained access to the experience of the metaphysical -all is one- .. And perhaps it made her a little sad.
I am not sure how to answer your questions. I think it is worth noting, that the title of the video is totally missing its own point. It is not four chords making up 36 songs. That would be trivial. Contrary, it is 36 individual (different) songs making up one, simply by arbitrarily putting them right after one another with no regard for how to make them fit each other or upholding a continuity. The "trick" that is "played" seem to be the individual pieces are fragments of another whole.
From taking a look at the young girl, in the very forst frame of the video, I would think that perhaps she gained access to the experience of the metaphysical -all is one- .. And perhaps it made her a little sad.
You're kidding, right?
I am not sure how to answer your questions.
Why? Could the questions be made clearer?
It is not four chords making up 36 songs. That would be trivial.
That it is trivial to use four chords to make 36 songs is the point of the video. Most people are not aware of , or bothered by, how trivial their music is, how little creativity or thought,goes into the "hits." Therefore, it is not trivial for these people to get a demonstration of how trivial their music is.
Contrary, it is 36 individual (different) songs making up one, simply by arbitrarily putting them right after one another with no regard for how to make them fit each other or upholding a continuity.
They are not arbitrarily put one after the other. This presentation might have been arbitrary if each of the 36 songs had a different musical structure and the songs were cut and the fragments juxtaposed. But when the songs are the same, cutting and then randomly reassembling the fragments reveals the homogeneity inherent in the 36, nothing else.
The "trick" that is "played" seem to be the individual pieces are fragments of another whole.
The "trick" is that within totalitarianism, people can be as easily fooled about their freedom, the range of their choices, and that when the "trick" is revealed, they go all mystical and metaphysical, bamboozled into believing they stand before God.
-Yusef
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