luka

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yeah. if i have to have a favourite film then i want my favourite film to be the matrix.

i dunno if i got anything clever to say. im a morning person. i do my thinking when i wake up. night is dead time.
 

thirdform

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im still vexed at Luka's gaslighting joke tbh.

as if mr. tea would ever be able to dance on the graves of palestinian children. i am gaslighted and kept in near solitary confinement every day though.
 

thirdform

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barty u shud give me music that:

im messaging a trans girl (well, woman) who is also a lesbian and jewish and in the states, who I will probably never meet, (who is also disabled) cos my ablebodied normie UK mates are too busy wanking into Corbyn's sock to help me navigate with government bureaucracies so i ain't confined to solitary confinement. anyway this girl is trying to hook me up with her UK comrades to see if something can be arranged but they will probably be everything that my intrusive dad hates. he hates queers, he is antisemitic and even hates most liberal brown people, cisgendered or trans. he hates most people full stop!

also i am worried that if these people see my family's middle class house with an unplayed piano they will think i am bullshitting. but like i don't even know how to open up to these people.

Ok come on barty that's ur challenge. digital music for that weird nexus plz.
 

thirdform

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also this is very serious if this fails or goes tits up it will be used against me or i will be beaten up if worse comes to worse.

so it can't just be lol weird, i am a bit scared.
 

firefinga

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one of the things i like about my favourite film 'the matrix' is that it says
the future has arrived but it is disguised as its own past.
that's the situation we find ourselves in.

The "Matrix" reference is very fitting, me thinks. Everytime I use public transport, u got 90% of the peeps staring onto - or rather "into" - their smartphones. It's the moment they get sucked into the Matrix.

Andthose references to "Soul" upthread are also very important - The West is getting more and more secular,and I have the impression even the word "soul" is getting eliminated more and more from usage.

And there is another important issue that comes with Dematerialisation - the feeling for "time" is eroding, also due to the fact of the ubiquituous internet connection via smartphones or tablets. Many people have no real time off from their (office) work, it's getting all blurry - and people get insane over it. Possibly there is a correlation between this "always on" tyranny and mental health issues in the west also.
 

luka

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sorry thirdform. i wasn't aiming the gaslighting thing at you.

but please understand how it feel having people literally trying to deny dematerialisation
WITHIN A DEMATERIALISED AND DISEMBODIED SPACE!!!!!!!!!

you can see how that might feel obtuse to the point of reality-denying

(not that im suggesting that this is a worse fate than being locked in solitary confinement and having your own family try to destroy your experience. of course it is on a very different scale)
 
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luka

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the only problem i have with the soul thing is that it is not period-specific enough.

the soulless has always been with us. if you look at the top 10s all the way down through spiralling time you will see that pop music is soulless by default. what i'm interested in is the features of TODAY'S particular brand of soulessness, in its forward facing as opposed to its reactive elements if that makes sense (so not the acoustic guitars and feigned sincerity to give one example)
 

luka

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and as far as time goes, as i said on the first page, the material world is subject to time but information is, in a very real sense, outside of time. a lot of shakespeare's sonnets refer to this magic.
 

luka

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i just want everyone to play with me and this is the game i want to play. it is very inclusive game. there are no barriers to entry. all you need is a body and a consciousness. you don't need any specialised terminology or concepts but if you do have them it helps because they can be plugged in. we can plug in philosophical machinery, we can plug in music theory, we can plug in scientific theory... all of it. i rejected all education like a kind of intellectual anorexic so it's not going to come from me but people can bring what they have and plug it in.

it's a great game, very fun to play. and then we build a big machine together which can fly away and leave all the suckers behind for good. so long suckers, we've found the way out
 

sadmanbarty

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the material world is subject to time but information is, in a very real sense, outside of time.

you can use information to manipulate the perception of time. frank miller's very good at this. this is what i wrote to luke a couple of weeks back

"One in a million illustrated the point; the innovation is it’s distortion of time perception. One moment is drawn out only to be followed by a rapid fire sequence. It’s manipulating information and stimuli to stretch and speed time."

 

sadmanbarty

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which music alleviates dematerialisation? which music works counter to digitalisation?

kendric llama (one for tea)? solange? hauntology?
 

luka

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yeah that was good! did i write something clever back? i feel like i did but maybe i just thought it and didnt say it
 

sadmanbarty

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close reading please luke:



on the one hand brittle and textural. on the other apathetic, it's colour is kubrik-light like a computer screen.

dematerialistion or the rejection of it?
 

luka

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which music alleviates dematerialisation? which music works counter to digitalisation?

kendric llama (one for tea)? solange? hauntology?

yeah, but im sceptical about this, it's why i invoked jay-dilla at the start. it just seems reactionary.
being reactionary it is necessarily part of the process and unavoidable, but it is the least interesting part.

if you think of what happens when a current pushes forward in a fluid medium... you get displaced water moving in the opposite direction also... that's at the most basic level
 

sadmanbarty

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don't get me wrong, i'm totally against all that. i'm single handedly shifting dissensus aesthetic overton window to the future.
 

luka

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close reading please luke:



on the one hand brittle and textural. on the other apathetic, it's colour is kubrik-light like a computer screen.

dematerialistion or the rejection of it?


right, ok. i like this song very much but you're absolutely right about it being apathetic. it woulddn't be overstating the case to call it, on some level, just plain pathetic. let me listen again and think
but as you say this isn't purely reactionary, i's a mixed condition, which a fluid medium allows for lool
wait, wait....
 

thirdform

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sorry thirdform. i wasn't aiming the gaslighting thing at you.

but please understand how it feel having people literally trying to deny dematerialisation
WITHIN A DEMATERIALISED AND DISEMBODIED SPACE!!!!!!!!!

you can see how that might feel obtuse to the point of reality-denying

(not that im suggesting that this is a worse fate than being locked in solitary confinement and having your own family try to destroy your experience. of course it is on a very different scale)

lol don't worry about it im used to banter. :love:
 

luka

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now i know im going to say this and youre going to tell me
lol you dick thats all midi synth but right from the
beginning im situated in a material world
i can hear and feel the wuumph of displaced air,
air sucked into a temporary vacuum
and impacts of object on object, force and resistance
wood, metal
strings always signify lush, luxe materiality and expense
upper class notions of elegance and sophistication
rounded, resonant double-bass, it's such a creamy
rich sound environment, expensive moisturiser, and
there's an attitude and a state implied, there's no hurry
or urgency, it's neat and orderly without being fussy, there's
an elasticity and an ease without falling into being sloppy
and slovenly, loose limbed and gracious and the frequencies
operate in the same frame of diction (you offered tact as a useful
synonym) there's nothing that threatens, or overwhelms or
discomforts, it's not pushing too hard or overstepping any
boundaries and it's not scared of spaces, gaps, silences,
so you're not crowded by it

the piano(keyboard?) line works with the repeated aways
to suggest and enact a process of becoming weightless,
gravity (and all gravity stands for as metaphor- duty, worry,
sorrow, responsibility, embodiment) relinquishing its grip
without ever going all the way into space- we go part way,
drifting up and out, but not all the way and then the hook anchors
us to the pain but what it does is it sublimates it and it aestheticises
it so that it is a voluptuous pain, taken away from its specific source
and just felt as that grit, that thing we hang on to, that keeps us here,
that passion, the hurt that makes us stay here on earth in an earth-suit.
that one splinter....

you get that deep, rich note on the piano, which means, in somatic terms,
from deep, dredged up from the deeps, as the hook comes in, that
indication that we are going from floating away to embodied now
right in the pit of the stomach, you can feel it there, the correspondence
is precise, so you have these mutually opposed tendencies- to float away
or to be here more fully, that tension is what energises the song, they dont cancel each other out,
 
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