Saturday, April 16, 2022

Musical Elitism - White Supremacy or Just Faulty Theory?

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  1. We are the priests of the temples of Syrinx. Our great computers full out hallowed halls.

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  2. My computer isn't so great.... Damn auto-corrupt


    We are the priests of the temples of Syrinx. Our great computers fill our hallowed halls.

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  3. Do you listen to much "classical", beamish? Just curious.

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  4. Play an instrument in high school? I played guitar. My dad made my brother and I take lessons when we lived in Spain. We became self-taught after that.

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  5. I played drums, and would still if not for unrelated carpal tunnel damage. I can still program a drum machine.

    As for classical, dunta dunt-daa...Beethoven, plus all the Looney Tunes cartoon soundtracks. Classical music was more a "Dad" thing, although I'd sit with him and listen to his vinyl records of various composers and symphonies.

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  6. I played drums, and would still if not for unrelated carpal tunnel damage. I can still program a drum machine.

    As for classical, dunta dunt-daa...Beethoven, plus all the Looney Tunes cartoon soundtracks. Classical music was more a "Dad" thing, although I'd sit with him and listen to his vinyl records of various composers and symphonies.

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  7. Listen (with headphones) to Fly Like an Eagle by the Steve Miller Band, particularly to the drums. Those jazz fills are holy.

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  8. Hitting stuff with sticks to produce rhythms is so satisfying ;)

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  9. Lots of silence to fill with beats for a man with speedy hands...

    Yeah, my classical exposure was Looney Tunes, too, except for its influence in flamenco (with the footsteps of horses in the castinettes).

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  10. That's art. To hand draw and sequence so many slightly different pictures and have the cartoon character move to the rhythm and notes of a symphony piece.

    Who doesn't watch the helicopter attack scene in Apocalypse Now with Ride of the Valkyries blaring and sing along with Elmer Fudd "Kill the Wabbit"

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  11. Beethoven was the Johnny Rotten of his day? I doubt Franco would like the comparison.

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  12. Franco hated a lot of music that I loved. We all have our "tastes" and reasons for disliking specific flavours and combinations of ingredients.

    Elmer could have had great singing career....

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  13. Disco is gay. Let's go rock out to those long haired dudes wearing makeup and lipstick.

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