Comic Discussion > QUESTIONABLE CONTENT
WCDT 4116-4120 (14th to 18th Dec, 2020)
Potato Farmer:
--- Quote from: Gyrre on 18 Dec 2020, 22:26 ---As for why so many of us misinterpreted your response (again sorry), I'm honestly not sure why your response came off as you not believing such sordid sorts existed. If I had to guess for myself, it may be a combination of other internet arguments I've come across (videos, comments, and forums) combined with the voicing and word choice? IDK.
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The idea I've got is that people have a habit of becoming more accepting of something if it keeps happening, so when someone denounces a certain behaviour as reprehensible there's the strange thought that that behaviour being common somehow serves as a mitigating factor rather than a warning sign that there's something seriously wrong with the status quo.
And because people don't really think about that consciously they can end up thinking that if someone is denouncing common behaviour it's because that person doesn't realize that such behaviour is common.
FreshScrod:
Case:
--- Quote from: FreshScrod on 21 Dec 2020, 11:56 ---
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OMG, the vid behind this ... :-o
Apparently, (Fusion/Hip Hop) Jazz has evolved quite a bit since my time dabbling in it in the early 90s. And then, to top it off, he masterfully ties all this delicious music-geekery together to make a profound statement about the relation between art and intent - that 'repetition is the fingerprint of artistic intent'.
One more fascinating new hummin to follow. Thanks! :-D
P.S.: Also just discovered that I can't read sheet music anymore. :cry: I knew about 'use it or lose it', and I guess it was only to be expected I'd lose a skill acquired through intensive ~10 year training in my early 20s by not using it over the following 20 years ... but it's still a bit shocking. Like trying to ride a bike and falling off.
Gyrre:
--- Quote from: Case on 21 Dec 2020, 19:52 ---
--- Quote from: FreshScrod on 21 Dec 2020, 11:56 ---
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OMG, the vid behind this ... :-o
Apparently, (Fusion/Hip Hop) Jazz has evolved quite a bit since my time dabbling in it in the early 90s. And then, to top it off, he masterfully ties all this delicious music-geekery together to make a profound statement about the relation between art and intent - that 'repetition is the fingerprint of artistic intent'.
One more fascinating new hummin to follow. Thanks! :-D
P.S.: Also just discovered that I can't read sheet music anymore. :cry: I knew about 'use it or lose it', and I guess it was only to be expected I'd lose a skill acquired through intensive ~10 year training in my early 20s by not using it over the following 20 years ... but it's still a bit shocking. Like trying to ride a bike and falling off.
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I have to give myself a crash course on sheet music every few years whenever I get the chance to play a piano.
Case:
Also weird: He keeps talking about-, and showing 'transcriptions' that clearly no human ever brought to paper with their hands. It's startling to see how the usage of tools that were already there in the early 90s has started to subtly change and augment the thinking of the artists who use them.
(There's some parallel development with Mathematica and analytical calculations in physics and engineering - I've met at least one colleauge who I'd call a weird type of 'cyborg' researcher, where the software is half of the whole, with the human providing direction and curiosity, and the software extending the reach of the feeble, slow genius human mind by orders of magnitude)
In '95, I'd do transcriptions for the 'studio band' I played with for my 2nd year exam at musci Uni Arnhem by hand. IIRC, I did a transcriptions of Jaco Pastorious' 'Come on, Come Over' and ... some other stuff I don't recall. But that was done with a tape recorder, a piano, and pen and paper, over ... two afternoons, I think?
(Remember Kids - no Internet, least not the way it is today. You couldn't just download sheet music - or rather, you probably could have tried, but back then, the Uni library still probably was the better bet. If there wasn't transcript of your desired piece available in the (substantial) University library somewhere ... well, you had to make one yourself. That's what all those music theory courses were for, right?)
Sure, the crude predecessors of the software he uses were already around (methinks musicians and graphics designers kept Apple afloat in the 90s - they were powerful, and some very powerful tools first proliferated in the Apple ecosystem. No other reason to inflict Apple on yourself). And sure, people were experimenting with odd measures like 7 eights. But I don't recall even hearing about anyone ever subdividing the time period between the kick and the snare into tuplets. Or writing that out, mind you. You'd use up a good pen even transcribing a 32bar sheet of that.
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