um, can I just butt in and point out that all amps have 'rectifiers' in them. This is a 'dual rectifier' that you're advertising, so-called because it has not one, but two 'rectifiers'.
Nice ad though.
flying nun used to be cool. then they started sucking really bad. pretty much the entire history of NZ independent music is contained in this eternal truth.
There was a study done, apparently tea loses its antioxidant properties if you don't put the milk in first...
true!!!
speaking of music awards, i caught part of the MTV (europe?) awards the other night. they had two categories called "best female" and "best male". not best female ALBUM or best male SINGLE, just best male and female.
I would have thought God should win "best male"...
..the early adopters are therefore those people whose direction is largely determined by advertising, and by other people. They tend to be conservative, insecure and require the legitimation of the wider group before they adopt a trend. Note that the industry did not label them "early creators" or similar; this group are predominantly consumers of cultural product, not producers. However, their perception tends to be that their personal prestige is increased by consuming a product before anyone else - so long as that product has the legitimation of a large-scale ad campaign or similar legitimating feature. They tend to lack the cultural capital required to appropriate texts that stand outside the corporate world.
There's not many of them in Hamilton. Thank God.
> Does ANYTHING happen in Hamilton?
Nothing that the early adopters will feel secure enough to participate in.
NB: the term "early adopters" originated in the advertising industry to denote that demographic who were the first to consume a new trend.
with melody (at least, melody in the trditional sense) subtracted, the other components of the music become more intense and direct for me- like there's no translation process between the idea represented by the music and the listeners interpretation of it
That's what I mean. Everything is on the surface, explicit. Nothing is hinted at, all the meaning is directly accessible. At least, that's the feeling that you get (ignoring hermeneutical theories of interpretation).
'free'music is less demanding on the listener than music where the conventions are tighter but more conventional and therefore much more internalised. In the latter situation, meanings can be suggested as opposed to merely stated - the listener stands in a relation of possibility and transcendence with the music. In free music the aim is the opposite: complete immanence and necessity; it shares this modernist aim with abstraction in painting. What the everyday listener (eg the chap above) hears as a demand is actually his or her own difficulty in coming to terms with a new set of rules. That this is not in fact a demand is shown in the way the rules are explicitly present in the resulting music.
I guess its like free music is about exposing the workings. And I feel like when everything is exposed and easily seen, no demand is made on the listener.
Art that is 'anti-representation' can't be demanding - any art demands only that the audience cross a divide between signifier and signified. No signified = no 'crossing' = no demand.
i just find 'free' music pretty undemanding - i always hear it as someone overexplaining themselves musically. Once you've heard the first explanation you don't need it to be put any other way.
Blue in Green is much more demanding than anything by Ornette Coleman.
some bands think that by being really loud, they can obscure their lack of songs/talent...
earplugs are a must at most shows these days. but it would also pay to be careful with your hearing in your everyday life. especially if you live in the inner city. constant noise is worse for your ears than occasional noise. and not only your ears, but your cognitive processing of aural information. we need silence or else our hearing gets fatigued.
being a music lover in the city is sometimes like a (visual) art-lover living in perpetual daylight without eyelids...
Some Borknagar lyrics:
"The denomination of the grandiose demise
Granted as the imious impetus
Upon the failure, denial of token
Upon the speech, in my tongue spoken"
Come on Kiwi musicians, free the dungeon-master within you and come up with more songs about...this stuff...whatever it is...
...or has it been moved to the 8th of August as Shaft have suggested?
MY BDO:
The Beatles
Robert Johnson
The Clean
Canned Heat
Dusty Springfield
Jimi Hemdrix
The Dead C
The MIles Davis Quintet
MacGuyver (the guy, not a band)
Jefferson Airplane
The NZSO
Blake Babies
Only this lineup would get me to stand in a sports stadium or 'events centre' with tens of thousands of other people.
Which leads me to an interesting thought: are mass "rock" concerts like the BDO just a conspiracy to force mental homogeneity upon the youth?
Anyone know who the new drummer is...? And when the shrugs will be playing with new lineup?
Start Again? That's perhaps the lamest name for a band that I have ever heard. Even lamer than the shrugs.