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"Anathem" Exclusive Video At MySpace

Posted by kdawson on from the chants-of-a-lifetime dept.

Shawn M. Smith writes "We've recently discussed Neal Stephenson's imminent new novel 'Anathem.' Now, MySpace has an exclusive video, The World of Anathem, that accompanies the book, filled with the 'Gregorian chants' and ambient noise that were so eloquently described by numerous Slashdotters who had scored advance copies of Stephenson's latest tome."

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  1. Re:Err by Crudely_Indecent · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Right on, I didn't want to be the first person to say this video sucked. I kept turning the volume up thinking that bad sound levels were preventing me from hearing dialog. The only way it could've been more lame is if it was posted on MySpace.

    Oh, wait...

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  2. Does anyone else feel like... by VirexEye · · Score: 4, Insightful

    ...they just watched a bad college film project?

  3. Re:Math music by LS · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I like Slint and have their album Spiderland, and they supposedly started the style of music called "math rock", but I fail to find the patterns that you and others speak of in their music. Is there someone out there that has done a breakdown analysis of the music to clearly demonstrate these patterns? I think all it is is just good rock music.

    All music is mathematical, and many types of music, especially classical, have all kinds of threads going all over the place that eventually converge. What is so different about slint? strange time signatures aren't enough to garner the name "math rock".

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