sadmanbarty
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splattered
One of the things I'm really enjoying about this thread, and it's a great thread, is that it is foregrounding precisely that element of 80s hip hop and allowing me to really enjoy it again. Framing the records chosen in this way is allowing me to enjoy all sorts of things in fact. It's a great device.
We've talked a bit about this framing before, in relation to words like Balearic or psychedelic. The context you place a record in is fundamentally important.
I tend to think of this way of listening (loony tunes/tactile thinking) as being the thing that "proper musician" music theory types are often missing when they say that if dance music is so rhythmically interesting why is it always in 4/4, lacking 15/425 polyrhythms, etc.
yeah I really think reframing can make all the difference. your questions here here are always very helpful in that respect. for example "what motions does it describe" naturally leads to this topic.
My dad wrote a paper on this, it was about teaching kids how to describe sound in non-scientific terms or something.
I can't remember why he initially did it, but it ended up being published in some journal.