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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