Pynchon and Music

pynchonoid pynchonoid at yahoo.com
Sun Oct 29 11:12:51 CST 2006


Maybe there's a "creative" way against the entropy
grain (and maybe there's really a perpetual motion
machine, too):  Mash-ups ("The Grey Album" for ex.),
play lists with self-recorded ambient and other sounds
or voices mixed in with simple tools like GarageBand,
& etc., as more folks take into hand the tools of
music production.



--- RuudSaurins at aol.com wrote:

> What Kind of.....
>       ....Rock'n'roll lives forever?  All kinds!  At
> least, according to Neil 
> Young, it will never die; if that is the same.  The
> problem is, like all 
> things, it undergoes "transformation".  It gets
> buried under progressively 
> deepening layers of cultural debris and is
> compressed and transformed into.....(drum 
> roll, please) Muzak!   
>       What plastic is to organic chemistry, muzak is
> to organized radiant 
> energy residing within the audible spectrum. 
> Plastic, Oh! No! (should be) 
> banned!   We are now entering an era when children
> humming Led Zeppelin riffs will 
> "know" that it is the tune from the Cadillac
> commercial.   The "education" is 
> never-ending, but what is being "learned" is also
> constantly being transformed. 
>  Or, quoting LZ, "the song remains the same."
>                                                     
>        truly (humming 
> Bird),
>                                                     
>        ruud
> 



 
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