Happy Hardcore sounds artificially feminine to me, a masculine idea of the feminine.
Happy Hardcore sounds artificially feminine to me, a masculine idea of the feminine.
so the distinction is more on the level of how you engage with the music than about musical tropes acting as signifiers or whatever. that probably should have been obvious to me by now. but still, different formal elements (breathy vocals) can encourage you to experience it on each--which is along the lines of what I was thinking about.masculine music is the phenomenology of velocity, feminine music is the phenomenology of physiology.
this speaks to the cognitive processes of of fight vs surrender. movement vs rest.
feminine music intimately and precisely maps out the body; breathy vocals, the way it textural on the skin, it's preoccupation with taste. these are only entertained by our cognition when we're inactive.
when you get punched you don't actually feel the pain till after the fight's over. masculine music is about processing of events and information (often rapidly).
so the distinction is more on the level of how you engage with the music than about musical tropes acting as signifiers or whatever. that probably should have been obvious to me. but still, different formal elements (breathy vocals) can encourage you to experience it on each--which is along the lines of what I was thinking about.
This makes me think that third's thing of antihuman machine music has to lean toward the masculine.
What do Dem 2 have to do with it?
are you gonna argue this is more feminin than gala?
yeh cos women don't work in the factories innit.
of the quoted content this was what resonated with me the most the first time I read it. just a way of being receptive/attuned to what different music does, rather than selectively looking for certain qualities and missing what’s actually interesting about the thing in front of you. (not that’s inherently bad, or that we don’t do it most of the time.)
maybe part of the idea is to get past boring good/bad 3.5/5 stars type judgments—but it does seem to give an idea of what music succeeding means: basically ‘vividness’ of qualities like the ones described (e.g. sense of motion is an important one). but if music doesn’t strike you as vivid in any sense, it might not be that whoever made it failed, but that their creative energy was focused on qualities that are still undiscovered to you.
(probably still missing how this connects to the other stuff at this point)
yeh cos women don't work in the factories innit.
This is what im trying to do, break down the binaries and noone's helping. let's talk about sophie then. where does she fit on this axis?
What happens when you break down the binary?
What happens when you break down the binary?
I'm inclined to think that it is difficult to map a space without poles. Without axes. But perhaps I'm not using my imagination. Help me.