I hope this means we won't be able to hear Britney or Christina as much as we already do...
-- I am the breaker of Chairs!
what's it take to get a decent name?
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Em+Emalb
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· Score: 3, Funny
uhm, yeah...dude takes a frigging mixing board, jacks it back into itself and calls it music? Sure. plenty of silence in between beats. Guess I am just not artistic, but if this qualifies as art, then me drinking a bottle of water is worth millions. Ok troll time over, but this is a little silly. If this is designed to keep people calm and on focus (coding, problem solving, what-have-you) then I personally feel they are barking up the wrong tree...ok, well, not barking, but whispering. As anyone who has listened to Pink Floyd albums can tell you, if you listen hard enough, you can hear some crazy sounds in the background. Which is all this music would do, force me to listen intently for that back ground noise.
Kids these days;)
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Re:what's it take to get a decent name?
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Anonymous Coward
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· Score: 1, Funny
>...or else I am composing a piece right now, called "the 20 second wait".
Take that John Cage! How do you like them apples?
Evil plot, that's what it actually is!
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EvilNTUser
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· Score: 2, Funny
"One recent album was so quiet, listeners wondered whether it actually contained any sound at all."
Heh,
one of the early phillips demo CD's did this to demonstrate the new-fangled CD players dynamic range... it went like this..
Orchestra playing softly.... Orchestra playing softly.... Orchestra playing softly.... Orchestra playing soft*********FUCKING BIG CANNON!************
As I recall, a lot of audiophile's speakers were replaced after the cones practically leapt across the room.
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You are in a twisty maze of processor lines, all alike. There is a lot of hype here.
Re:What about sound quality?
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ObviousGuy
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· Score: 2, Funny
They just ship blanks to vinyl enthusiasts. Those releases sound better than the CD version.
-- I have been pwned because my/. password was too easy to guess.
Re:This is bullshit
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iapetus
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· Score: 4, Funny
They were called 'experimental musicians', 'soundscapists' or 'musique concrete people'.
They were called plenty of other, more colourful things as well.:)
-- ++ Say to Elrond "Hello.".
Elrond says "No.". Elrond gives you some lunch.
If you liked the sample clips. . .
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BitHive
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· Score: 2, Funny
. ..then get ready for my upcoming album "The Sound of One Hand Clapping", and my new hit single "Average Global Rate of Trees Falling in the Forest When Nobody is Around to Hear Them in 2001".
Before you all jump on the hate-them bandwagon. .
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freakpower
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· Score: 3, Funny
. . . you should consider that an artist deserves some respect for being consistently unlistenable. How many of you out there like Aphex Twin? You have to admit that, though brilliant, tracks like "Bucephalus Bouncing Ball" probably wouldn't go over well with the average listener.
Electronic music is the new outlet for kids who ten years ago would have sat in a garage with a bunch of friends and a guitar. It offers a sometimes cheap and always flexible way to release your musical boognish.
That being said, these people probably shouldn't have been written up anywhere outside of their best friends' websites. Any movement for which "there may be 10,000. . . fans around the world" probably isn't worth paying much attention to. The article seems to be more focused on the fact that the musicians use Macs. Surprise, nobody!
I'm not making a "you don't know what the next big thing is" speech, because, quite frankly, this is far from it. People still prefer 4/4 beats and sound samples with the word "booty" in them. But I wonder how many of those out there ridiculing these guys now are going to be the same ones that whine to their friends two years down the road when their favorite minimalist techno band sells a song for a car commercial.
The future of commercial music
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spektr
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· Score: 5, Funny
I think this is an experiment by the RIAA to test whether they can leave out the music around their audio watermarks and sell them standalone. If the market reacts positive, their profit will skyrocket up to 100.05%, because they don't have to pay those greedy musicians anymore.
e e cummings would be proud
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Anonymous Coward
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Aged Hippie #1: Dude is this lowercase music? Well Crank It UP!
Aged Hippie #2: Yeah man.
Aged Hippie #1: No dude really, Ministry '94 really fucked up my hearing, you have to cank it up.
Aged Hippie #2:(whispers)It is up.
Ronco Announcer: This is lowercase music! Hear tea kettles as they cool off. Listen to the air inside a snare drum when no one is playing it or how about this classic; Mixer Feeding Back With No Inputs. Yeah, lowercase music rocks... (emphasized whisper)gently like a leaf on still water!
Slashdot Mirror
I hope this means we won't be able to hear Britney or Christina as much as we already do...
I am the breaker of Chairs!
uhm, yeah...dude takes a frigging mixing board, jacks it back into itself and calls it music? Sure. plenty of silence in between beats. Guess I am just not artistic, but if this qualifies as art, then me drinking a bottle of water is worth millions. Ok troll time over, but this is a little silly. If this is designed to keep people calm and on focus (coding, problem solving, what-have-you) then I personally feel they are barking up the wrong tree...ok, well, not barking, but whispering. As anyone who has listened to Pink Floyd albums can tell you, if you listen hard enough, you can hear some crazy sounds in the background. Which is all this music would do, force me to listen intently for that back ground noise.
;)
Kids these days
Sent from your iPad.
"One recent album was so quiet, listeners wondered whether it actually contained any sound at all."
The RIAA strikes again!
My Sig: SEGV
itty-bitty quiet sounds.
I've been listening to this for quite a while, and I must say it's been a good change from the usual stuff labelled 'electronic'.
thats what I thought anyway, until I realised my headphones were broken...
fran
I've got a tape by these guys called "Head Cleaner". It's very quiet. I've got their video as well.
The Day Today - Game Warden to the Events Rhino
cat /vmlinuz > /dev/dsp sounds better :-D
It'll be great until some smartass makes a track that's 45 minutes of near-silence followed by A LOUD BANG! One more fad bites the dust.
Not that this wasn't entirely predictable.
They just ship blanks to vinyl enthusiasts. Those releases sound better than the CD version.
I have been pwned because my
They were called plenty of other, more colourful things as well. :)
++ Say to Elrond "Hello.".
Elrond says "No.". Elrond gives you some lunch.
. . .then get ready for my upcoming album "The Sound of One Hand Clapping", and my new hit single "Average Global Rate of Trees Falling in the Forest When Nobody is Around to Hear Them in 2001".
. . . you should consider that an artist deserves some respect for being consistently unlistenable. How many of you out there like Aphex Twin? You have to admit that, though brilliant, tracks like "Bucephalus Bouncing Ball" probably wouldn't go over well with the average listener.
Electronic music is the new outlet for kids who ten years ago would have sat in a garage with a bunch of friends and a guitar. It offers a sometimes cheap and always flexible way to release your musical boognish.
That being said, these people probably shouldn't have been written up anywhere outside of their best friends' websites. Any movement for which "there may be 10,000. . . fans around the world" probably isn't worth paying much attention to. The article seems to be more focused on the fact that the musicians use Macs. Surprise, nobody!
I'm not making a "you don't know what the next big thing is" speech, because, quite frankly, this is far from it. People still prefer 4/4 beats and sound samples with the word "booty" in them. But I wonder how many of those out there ridiculing these guys now are going to be the same ones that whine to their friends two years down the road when their favorite minimalist techno band sells a song for a car commercial.
I think this is an experiment by the RIAA to test whether they can leave out the music around their audio watermarks and sell them standalone. If the market reacts positive, their profit will skyrocket up to 100.05%, because they don't have to pay those greedy musicians anymore.
no puncutation either
Do I turn it down?
Heroscape, it's like legos combined with anachronistic wargames.
Aged Hippie #1: Dude is this lowercase music? Well Crank It UP!
Aged Hippie #2: Yeah man.
Aged Hippie #1: No dude really, Ministry '94 really fucked up my hearing, you have to cank it up.
Aged Hippie #2: (whispers)It is up.
Ronco Announcer: This is lowercase music! Hear tea kettles as they cool off. Listen to the air inside a snare drum when no one is playing it or how about this classic; Mixer Feeding Back With No Inputs. Yeah, lowercase music rocks... (emphasized whisper)gently like a leaf on still water!
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