the soundtrack to the Wachowski (formerly brothers) film
JUPITER ASCENDING.
I kinda like.
it’s amusing and amazing to me that I, a weirdo of harmonic tastes, can appreciate a simple
f minor to DbM major progression, repeated.
then again, Steve Reich uses exactly that progression (in music for a large ensemble, even in the same exact key)
in TONS of his pieces.
Category Archives: Harmony
Bb D E A
at a coffee house
asked what the song playing is
they don’t know
no smart phone.
the song now is in g dorian…
and has a fender rhodes every two bars playing
Bb D E A G….
BbM #11…
love
somebody please remind me to
somebody please remind me to
1. leave my laptop at home
2. actually go out without it.
3. read THE PHILOSOPHY OF SCHOPENHAUER and
4. listen to WOTAN’S MONOLOGUE in ACT II of DIE WALKURE by WAGNER
like daily until I finish.
seem to be happy when I do this. if only the book’d not end.
notes of the day, musical
G A E C
D C A F
E F Bb F
D# C….
know what this is, bro? here’s a hint. it involves maple syrup and a woman who’s father was a jarhead.
Jazz Is
Saw this today. Nice.
Jazz is the only music in which the same note can be played night after night but differently each time. – Ornette Coleman
Jazz is the type of music that can absorb so many things and still be jazz. – Sonny Rollins
Jazz is there and gone. It happens. You have to be present for it. That simple. – Keith Jarrett
Jazz to me is a living music. – Dexter Gordon
Jazz today, as always in the past, is a matter of thoughtful creation, not mere unaided instinct. – Duke Ellington
Jazz was not only built in the minds of the great ones, but on the backs of the ordinary ones. – Cab Calloway
Jazz washes away the dust of everyday life. – Art Blakey
Jazz will endure just as long people hear it through their feet instead of their brains. – John Philip Sousa
Knowledge speaks but wisdom listens. – Jimi Hendrix
Let there be bass. – Leo Fender
Life is a lot like jazz, it’s best when you improvise. – George Gershwin
Lord of the Rings Music and motifs
I just realized that what I have ALWAYS THOUGHT was THE MORDOR MOTIF from lord of the rings, is almost all of the same notes as THE RING MOTIF from lord of the rings. !!!
different tempo, context, symbolism, intstruments…. different resolution….. different harmonic context…. SAME MELODY. DANG!
Hahahaha
how did I MISS that.
that IS like Wagner!
(said themes are both in the hobbit fims as well)
b C b CbAb……
slow… that’s it.
the RING motif, is, the same notes, fast, in strings, over f minor, moving to e minor, plus C B E….
OBVIOUSLY they would be related. man, that’s as cool as when it happens in wagner. wow.
p.s it’s actually B C B CB A-natural, not flat, in the “ring” motif.
Capitalism’s Downward Pressure to be mediocre
Still haven’t heard how the Ayn Rand camp defends the fact that capitalism has a downward pressure to produce as little as possible and sell it for the most.
these clowns have to admit at some point that this results in making garbage and presenting it as treasure, the very thing that they accuse socialists of, yes?
“enshrining mediocrity.”
isn’t that what capitalism and oligarchy are doing?
why else is pop music these days nothing but commercial GARBAGE?
ain’t apologizin, eat it. guess I’m old now.
no, I ain’t old, I’m educated and have good bloody taste. never liked most pop music. only reason I liked James Brown (and really, is that pop music? was it ever?) is cause I happen to dig the rhythms and the harmonies and the fact that they repeat a lot. it’s happenstance. if they weren’t as they are, I’d pass over James Brown, as I do a lotta funk that doesn’t have “certain” chords and “certain” rhythmic feels and “isn’t repetitive such that it pulls me in and I want more and more of it.”
still haven’t heard from the Ayn Rand Camp where they get off thinking that capitalism doesn’t unnecessarily (at this point in history) encourage
Willful STINGINESS. rather than actually thinking and actually caring and actually deciding WHAT CONSTITUTES a GOOD JOB at something, a thing WORTH doing.
not just DOING It, regardless of it’s meaning and place in the general scheme of things, if it has one at all.
SEE? I HAVE LEADERSHIP SKILLS!!! hahahaha (this is a joke, but it isn’t)
“James Brown is God.” no joke. not god, just awesome. hows that for a disclaimer.
a nifty aspect of harmony
well, one nifty aspect of hearing music from a long time ago in your life (high school wind-ensemble music, to be precise)
is recognizing certain harmonies, that you simply hadn’t learned about that.
such as a DbM7 chord, in c minor…didn’t know about M7 chords yet, nor those a half step above the root in a minor key:)
piece is
MASQUE by W. Francis Mcbeth (didn’t even know this piece was by him, Just remembered a piece called Masque, from ages ago, that I liked and never had found.)
country music has African roots…
who knew…. guy at my accountant’s office today showed me this.
I have known for years that African music’s influence on the west is HUGE, but did not know THIS part of it.
that said, I still hate country music. just ain’t my kinda harmony.
SEQUENCES OF IDEAS or DEVELOPMENT
on the validity of mere SEQUENCES OF IDEAS, rather than DEVELOPMENT of them, in music, and perhaps in conversation, or even thinking, or living.
I mean, what’s the point of “developing” something… you don’t have to “develop” seeing the sky, you see it, it’s blue, or azul, or whatever, and it’s beautiful. you don’t HAVE to “write poems” about it, or define it, it just IS.
MM! UMPH! why can’t music and sound just BE, sometimes? even in a John Cage sense… not ALL of them (but then again, why NOT all of them?) but bloody hell, if you find someting appealing, just BE with it, as long as you like. no need for a story, an arc, a narrative. no need for TELEOLOGY. just BE. DAMMIT just be.
COLOURS. FEELINGS. THE MOMENT. OVER AND OVER. THERE IS NOTHING WRONG WITH THIS.
ESPECIALLY IF YOU FIND IT PLEASANT.
I DON’T NEED to always be doing something NEW! some of the things I love to do I am happy doing MANY TIMES!!!
like if I was married… I wouldn’t need a new WOMAN all the time… would I?
I should think not, if I loved my wife.
and I don’t need new and different food all the time, even any of it (though in some ways a broader diet than I’ve got would be good, yes.)
some say variety is the spice of life. perhaps, but NO!start with basic contentment, no need to spice things up without things “TO” spice up.
and no I’m not advocating the perhaps materialist life path of the boomers, nor am I advocating maslows “incomplete” hierarchy of needs (he left out “the need to feel alive, in between the lowest two needs, but you couldn’t expect a non-adhd to know about that; it would be like saying that people need “oxygen” for happiness. and water. I mean, duh. he can be forgiven for the crime of having an “IN-UNIVERSE” perspective in his writing (in case you don’t know, that means writing a supposed encyclopedia article from the perspective of a fantasy world, rather than from OUTSIDE it, as is proper. though this does remind me of Fight Club and the device of UNRELIABLE NARRATOR, as used by JAMES JOYCE, yes.)