tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3371351138596055444.post5047070722606170949..comments2024-01-20T23:55:26.269-08:00Comments on The Detritus Review: This is not a Poisonous SpiderUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3371351138596055444.post-78584923366026575412008-10-07T17:52:00.000-07:002008-10-07T17:52:00.000-07:00That may not be a poisonous spider, but I bet this...That may not be a poisonous spider, but I bet this one is. Check out these neat pictures of a unknown brown spider:<BR/>http://bestbraindrain.com/2008/09/16/unknown-brown-spider-in-charlotte-nc.aspxAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3371351138596055444.post-57251886195571345912008-06-27T12:14:00.000-07:002008-06-27T12:14:00.000-07:00I was kidding. The way I review - writing about th...I was kidding. The way I review - writing about the work at hand, not the ideological history of the organizational techniques it uses - makes it pretty unlikely you'll blast me.<BR/><BR/>I'm hearing the SFS tonight, really looking forward to it. Love Lutoslawski!Lisa Hirschhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14014924958428072675noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3371351138596055444.post-79992221655856235422008-06-27T12:02:00.000-07:002008-06-27T12:02:00.000-07:00Re: LisaYou kidding? Your review was stellar. And ...Re: Lisa<BR/><BR/>You kidding? Your review was stellar. And I love your I's.<BR/><BR/>Re: Tim Rambler<BR/><BR/>I, too, was appalled. The thing about this particular review was that he (Foglesong) was trying to take the "good" position, by poking fun at those who close their ears, because of their negative preconceptions about techniques. Yet, he wasn't immune to those same prejudices. Strange. I mean, he acknowledges that Lutoslawski used organizational techniques, then says that it was only to serve the greater purpose, the music. I don't really know what to blame, a lack of logic or a short attention span. Maybe a bit of both.Empiricushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11629835829400843701noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3371351138596055444.post-34553362096406239442008-06-27T05:23:00.000-07:002008-06-27T05:23:00.000-07:00Thanks for doing this one, the Lutoslawski interpr...Thanks for doing this one, the Lutoslawski interpretation at the end is pretty o_0; for a theorist it's a shocking misreading. Lutoslawski is very formalistic - think of all those charts of symmetrical 12-note chords that he always had to hand when composing.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3371351138596055444.post-1138465838002913402008-06-26T20:23:00.000-07:002008-06-26T20:23:00.000-07:00I'm so curious about who Joe Schmoe might be.While...I'm so curious about who Joe Schmoe might be.<BR/><BR/>While we're on the subject of that awful 20th century music, I caught Boulez's Second Piano Sonata on Cesky Rozhlas earlier today, and I was struck by the beauty of its sonorities. I wish they'd played it again.<BR/><BR/>(Oh, and, nothing nasty to say about my review of <I>Seht die Sonne</I>? :-)Lisa Hirschhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14014924958428072675noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3371351138596055444.post-46597577034680809762008-06-26T14:51:00.000-07:002008-06-26T14:51:00.000-07:00Once again, a critic has made the mistake of eleva...Once again, a critic has made the mistake of elevating the writing of music to some sort of divinely inspired act. Apparently only God can inspire the composition of real <I>music</I>. The rest of us have to use that fucking technique shit to get by, hopefully fooling people with our academic machismo in place of truly <I>musical</I> music, you know, the kind a real musician would write.<BR/><BR/>Composing music is facilitated by technique. Without it, we'd all be writing songs for fucking Amy Winehouse or the Olsen Twins. Writing music is fucking hard and would be impossible if composers had no clue what they were doing. Knowing the instruments and how to write effectively for them is technique. Knowing forms, even ones as beloved as predictable Mozart concertos, and utilizing them in music requires technique....barf. Fine, God writes music for us--technique is for heathens.<BR/><BR/>And one other thing, can we stop referring to 12-tone composition as sophisticated. I explained that so-called "hardcore academic" shit to my 5-year old cousin, she got it. We wrote 12-tone melodies together. For fuck's sake, 12-tone rows are at best simple (that's mind-numbingly simple) math. [Yes, atonality can very complicated, I'm talking about 12-tone rows. Fucking simple!]<BR/><BR/>Whatever, I do what I want.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com