There is so much music, that it is almost impossible to be truly different than everything else. And should an artist be required/expected to test new work with all other previous music ever made? That would be impossible.
And where do you draw the line? Four similar bars? Two similar notes in a sequence? A same text line in a refrain? Having the same theme (as there are millions of songs about love)? Having the same combination of instruments?
There is quite a lot of Lute music (in tablature form) from Renaissance/Elizabethan onwards. The early continental music is not as melodic though (Bakfark). Bach wrote the Lute Suite (which I believe was never played on the contemporary Lute) which ended the dominance of that in court music. What is not commonly known is that the Lute in a consort was played with a plectrum for volume. I've never used one as I can envisage that it would damage the fragile top. There were similar instruments like the Chitarra (steel stings) Bandora and the unusual Orpharion with extensions of the 7 course like the Theobor. I almost bought one from a Luthier working in the Budapest museum in the late 70s but he wanted $2000US at the time. It's playing the instrument that is an eyeopener. When properly tuned to its resonating frequency, the image I get is 'aural architecture' (TM) - a phenomenal subjective sense of creation. Lute recordings where you hear echo or unusual depth is probably not added by the audio engineer. The Lute is reasonably difficult to play, but the killer are the 3~4 different systems of tablature. You really need to learn them all to be reasonably proficient. Procul Harem's 'Whiter Shade of Pale' is Bach-like, but not derived from his written work! Jan Akkerman's 'Tabernakle' is standard fare, but includes a few tracks of his own. Faust (German Krautrock 70's band) wrote a piece that I've played on Lute and Guitar "Picnic on a frozen River" ff.. I can't remember if they intended to perform that on lute though. I'm not sure (maybe I don't want to admit it) if there is much creativity in music nowadays. Rhythms, 12 notes/octave are finite. Quite a few modern pieces are based on 'influences' of classical composers. Sampling is just cheating. I can go on, though there are some brilliant compositions if you look hard enough. One of the silliest copyright infringement decisions was when the owners of Kookaburra filed claim against Men At Work http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M... 'Kookaburra' is a children's tune and was played weekly in schools, recording made of it and so on. Even if you listen to the track in question "Down Under" it is not very easy to identify the part in question. Some of the avant garde music breaks the somnambulism of middle of the road pop/rock. Listening to 40 year old Krautrock and some Daevid Allen's compostions breaks the numbness somewhat. You get some fresh ears for a while!
Just got to say that having an extension of your phone on your arm is a great move and goes waaay back (as a concept) ref: Dick Tracey. I'm still waiting for the full implementation of this as Dick's watch didn't need a phone (or charging). Unfortunately it doesn't work as a standalone item which is a mistake. It should pair with all phones and OS as well. So if I'm interested in this - I'll have to buy an iPhone. I really don't want to do that.
So congrats to Apple for V 1.0 - it's a step in the right direction.
I'd like to see a spin-off - CSI:Computer Repair. There's a whole pile of stuff that can go on in that scenario. Another (non-related) would be 'Lifestyles of the Poor and Mundane'. But back to the story. In the UK and Australia, there is the reality show of reality shows. It's called Goggle Box where they video families watching TV. That is truly pathetic.
Wolfenstein: New Order soundtrack They actually wrote all of these tracks for the game, but they are great stand-alone. https://www.youtube.com/playli...
Understood. I don't like to criticize without providing an alternative. I wonder how we can fix this? My first thoughts are to group similar sites aggregating in the results - eg 'mercury anti-vaccine - (2549 results)' , 'mercury-health - (1024)', 'mercury-chemistry - (3230)', 'mercury-medicinal (4349)' ~ which you can click through to what you need. Maybe using the new top level domains to refine the search? I do miss the ability to add qualifiers in Google like mercury - 'vaccine' which restricts results to all mercury except vaccine. I've found different sets of results using Yandex btw. I also have access to online uni libraries which helps a lot, but that is a closed system in itself by methodology. Can't find any fringe related material there.... You see, paradigm change results from evidence that doesn't fit a theory. If it gets harder to find fringe evidence, you tend to lock an existing theory into place. No advancement, no forward movement.
Ask a pipe smoker, cigar smoker. The perfumed scent of good tobacco and the effect that all those wonderful tars have on the body. Someone described the effect as taking a deep breath then exhaling very slowly. Other than that, no particular reason, although doctors in the late 1800's prescribed tobacco to help clear the lungs of phlegm.
You have made a great point. A major point. Firstly, if implemented, it affects the ranking of a (e.g.) pseudo-science website. It shouldn't hopefully cut it out. Let's keep real though: $10,000 network cables for hi fi systems? That's pseudo science. Any website that mentions 'Turanean' is now pseudo science -even though at one point in time it was an academically acceptable term. There are a million+ monkey wrenches. If I write a blog on Atlantean or review a book written by a pseudo-scolar, how does my ranking change? Will it eventually fall off the end and we'll be denied (as far as Google is concerned), fair ranking? Also, what about free speech? How do "Women against Feminism" rank as it can be argued that it is not politically correct? How does an algorithm cater for all the nuances? What about Stormfront or any site that attacks political correctness? What if the atheists take control? Where else can I find treatise on Fire Temples and Zoroastrianism? Someone wrote once "From little bird turds do big ones grow." and I think that is the wedge here. Once you do that, you start losing access to information. And it is sooo easy to drive that wedge harder. From that we can ask the question if Google has the right to be the world guide in ethics, morality, philosophy and cosmology. About a year or so ago, I have started using different search engines with improved results. Having another language helps too.
Here's another: https://www.youtube.com/watch?... 5 fingered Boogie - 1957. If you listen to the left hand bass line then you get the typical rock-blues fundamental with the right-hand lead on top. The transition from early blues to rock and pop to the crap today is pretty obvious. You don't need bad research to see that.
where do you think the "billboard" numbers originate?
Try Tin Pan Alley which was the origin of the billboard numbers. Wikipedia has a good take on it. I'll quote below, that a lot of Rock and Pop actually came from Negro Ragtime, Cakewalk and Blues tunes, although Ragtime and Cakewalk were arguably White genre 'Black' music. "Initially Tin Pan Alley specialized in melodramatic ballads and comic novelty songs, but it embraced the newly popular styles of the cakewalk and ragtime music. Later on jazz and blues were incorporated, although less completely, as Tin Pan Alley was oriented towards producing songs that amateur singers or small town bands could perform from printed music. In the 1910s and 1920s Tin Pan Alley published pop-songs and dance numbers created in newly popular jazz and blues styles" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
The urheimat of the Slavs was north of the Carpathians towards West Ukraine. By the 5th-6th century, they began to move into the Northern Danubian region. Makes sense to me as the Polish are a Slav race.
You could create and even modify the AI in AOEI and AOEII. There was no documentation for it, but it was simple to figure out. The only problem with the game was that you had low population limits/civilization.
Nothing like seeing a bunch of naked men and women running out of a Finnish sauna onto a pier and jumping into arctic waters. I saw that in Tornio/Happaranda and it freaked me out.
I would support that. His family might not though. My respect and eulogy for Scottie was sent into space at the time. I can certainly envisage 'Spock' taking the long trip out into the cosmos.
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There is so much music, that it is almost impossible to be truly different than everything else. And should an artist be required/expected to test new work with all other previous music ever made? That would be impossible.
And where do you draw the line? Four similar bars? Two similar notes in a sequence? A same text line in a refrain? Having the same theme (as there are millions of songs about love)? Having the same combination of instruments?
Well there is always The Shaggs.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Try and fit that into impossible.
There is quite a lot of Lute music (in tablature form) from Renaissance/Elizabethan onwards. The early continental music is not as melodic though (Bakfark). Bach wrote the Lute Suite (which I believe was never played on the contemporary Lute) which ended the dominance of that in court music. What is not commonly known is that the Lute in a consort was played with a plectrum for volume. I've never used one as I can envisage that it would damage the fragile top. There were similar instruments like the Chitarra (steel stings) Bandora and the unusual Orpharion with extensions of the 7 course like the Theobor. I almost bought one from a Luthier working in the Budapest museum in the late 70s but he wanted $2000US at the time. It's playing the instrument that is an eyeopener. When properly tuned to its resonating frequency, the image I get is 'aural architecture' (TM) - a phenomenal subjective sense of creation. Lute recordings where you hear echo or unusual depth is probably not added by the audio engineer. The Lute is reasonably difficult to play, but the killer are the 3~4 different systems of tablature. You really need to learn them all to be reasonably proficient.
Procul Harem's 'Whiter Shade of Pale' is Bach-like, but not derived from his written work! Jan Akkerman's 'Tabernakle' is standard fare, but includes a few tracks of his own. Faust (German Krautrock 70's band) wrote a piece that I've played on Lute and Guitar "Picnic on a frozen River" ff.. I can't remember if they intended to perform that on lute though.
I'm not sure (maybe I don't want to admit it) if there is much creativity in music nowadays. Rhythms, 12 notes/octave are finite. Quite a few modern pieces are based on 'influences' of classical composers. Sampling is just cheating. I can go on, though there are some brilliant compositions if you look hard enough.
One of the silliest copyright infringement decisions was when the owners of Kookaburra filed claim against Men At Work http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M...
'Kookaburra' is a children's tune and was played weekly in schools, recording made of it and so on. Even if you listen to the track in question "Down Under" it is not very easy to identify the part in question.
Some of the avant garde music breaks the somnambulism of middle of the road pop/rock. Listening to 40 year old Krautrock and some Daevid Allen's compostions breaks the numbness somewhat. You get some fresh ears for a while!
Just got to say that having an extension of your phone on your arm is a great move and goes waaay back (as a concept) ref: Dick Tracey. I'm still waiting for the full implementation of this as Dick's watch didn't need a phone (or charging).
Unfortunately it doesn't work as a standalone item which is a mistake. It should pair with all phones and OS as well.
So if I'm interested in this - I'll have to buy an iPhone. I really don't want to do that.
So congrats to Apple for V 1.0 - it's a step in the right direction.
I did not know that. And I think have Predestinaton somewhere in my wife's last DVD buying frenzy. I still have Aunty Jack to watch first......
I'd like to see a spin-off - CSI:Computer Repair. There's a whole pile of stuff that can go on in that scenario.
Another (non-related) would be 'Lifestyles of the Poor and Mundane'. But back to the story. In the UK and Australia, there is the reality show of reality shows. It's called Goggle Box where they video families watching TV. That is truly pathetic.
Those screens! Are they CGI? Animated? Does someone code to make those screens with multiple windows on black? What's the OS? Linux?
Why not Narns? You got something against them?
Lathe of Heaven http://www.imdb.com/title/tt00... worth every bit of the 7.3/10
By His Bootstraps was one of his written in 1941. I'd like to see that as a movie.
Loderunner! Fantastic game and wasted hrs on it. I couldn't get past L22 in Championship Loderunner :(
Wolfenstein: New Order soundtrack
They actually wrote all of these tracks for the game, but they are great stand-alone.
https://www.youtube.com/playli...
YAY! Orgasmic times ahead!
Understood. I don't like to criticize without providing an alternative. I wonder how we can fix this?
My first thoughts are to group similar sites aggregating in the results - eg 'mercury anti-vaccine - (2549 results)' , 'mercury-health - (1024)', 'mercury-chemistry - (3230)', 'mercury-medicinal (4349)' ~ which you can click through to what you need.
Maybe using the new top level domains to refine the search?
I do miss the ability to add qualifiers in Google like mercury - 'vaccine' which restricts results to all mercury except vaccine.
I've found different sets of results using Yandex btw. I also have access to online uni libraries which helps a lot, but that is a closed system in itself by methodology. Can't find any fringe related material there....
You see, paradigm change results from evidence that doesn't fit a theory. If it gets harder to find fringe evidence, you tend to lock an existing theory into place. No advancement, no forward movement.
Sorry... spelled it wrong.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Ask a pipe smoker, cigar smoker. The perfumed scent of good tobacco and the effect that all those wonderful tars have on the body. Someone described the effect as taking a deep breath then exhaling very slowly.
Other than that, no particular reason, although doctors in the late 1800's prescribed tobacco to help clear the lungs of phlegm.
You have made a great point. A major point.
Firstly, if implemented, it affects the ranking of a (e.g.) pseudo-science website. It shouldn't hopefully cut it out.
Let's keep real though:
$10,000 network cables for hi fi systems? That's pseudo science.
Any website that mentions 'Turanean' is now pseudo science -even though at one point in time it was an academically acceptable term.
There are a million+ monkey wrenches.
If I write a blog on Atlantean or review a book written by a pseudo-scolar, how does my ranking change? Will it eventually fall off the end and we'll be denied (as far as Google is concerned), fair ranking?
Also, what about free speech? How do "Women against Feminism" rank as it can be argued that it is not politically correct? How does an algorithm cater for all the nuances? What about Stormfront or any site that attacks political correctness?
What if the atheists take control? Where else can I find treatise on Fire Temples and Zoroastrianism?
Someone wrote once "From little bird turds do big ones grow." and I think that is the wedge here. Once you do that, you start losing access to information. And it is sooo easy to drive that wedge harder.
From that we can ask the question if Google has the right to be the world guide in ethics, morality, philosophy and cosmology. About a year or so ago, I have started using different search engines with improved results. Having another language helps too.
Here's another:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
5 fingered Boogie - 1957.
If you listen to the left hand bass line then you get the typical rock-blues fundamental with the right-hand lead on top.
The transition from early blues to rock and pop to the crap today is pretty obvious. You don't need bad research to see that.
where do you think the "billboard" numbers originate?
Try Tin Pan Alley which was the origin of the billboard numbers. Wikipedia has a good take on it. I'll quote below, that a lot of Rock and Pop actually came from Negro Ragtime, Cakewalk and Blues tunes, although Ragtime and Cakewalk were arguably White genre 'Black' music.
"Initially Tin Pan Alley specialized in melodramatic ballads and comic novelty songs, but it embraced the newly popular styles of the cakewalk and ragtime music. Later on jazz and blues were incorporated, although less completely, as Tin Pan Alley was oriented towards producing songs that amateur singers or small town bands could perform from printed music. In the 1910s and 1920s Tin Pan Alley published pop-songs and dance numbers created in newly popular jazz and blues styles"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Honky Tonk (Tin Pan Alley piano)
http://www.last.fm/music/Winif...
That WILL be a bad move. There are a lot of facts out there that academics still debate over. Pretty much anti-free speech afaic.
The urheimat of the Slavs was north of the Carpathians towards West Ukraine. By the 5th-6th century, they began to move into the Northern Danubian region. Makes sense to me as the Polish are a Slav race.
You could create and even modify the AI in AOEI and AOEII. There was no documentation for it, but it was simple to figure out. The only problem with the game was that you had low population limits/civilization.
Nothing like seeing a bunch of naked men and women running out of a Finnish sauna onto a pier and jumping into arctic waters. I saw that in Tornio/Happaranda and it freaked me out.
So which overlord should we bow down to this time?
I'll have to bend down and look for my earbud 'cause the cable's gone....
I would support that. His family might not though. My respect and eulogy for Scottie was sent into space at the time. I can certainly envisage 'Spock' taking the long trip out into the cosmos.