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On Jazz.
The Good Reverend Roger:
I have two problems with Jazz.
1. It hasn't had much to say in years, and
2. What it's repeating makes me go berserk.
LMNO:
I'm a fan of jazz. Hell, I studied at a jazz school.
And much like any kind of music, Sturgeon's Law applies.
Jazz can be incredibly melodic, it can have an easily understood structure, and it can be fucking catchy.
It can also be insanely complicated, and use concepts that surpass the majority of 20th century composers, with the exception of Ives or Cage.
Which makes "Jazz" hard to talk about, in the same way "rock" is hard to talk about, when you include Buddy Holly and Cannibal Corpse in the same grouping.
I may start a thread that takes jazz from understood through WTF, if people are interested. I may not. But I am encouraged to hear that some may give it a second listen.
Mesozoic Mister Nigel:
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--- Quote from: Not Your Nigel on October 13, 2013, 12:04:38 am ---I don't think any genre of music is worthless. There is also no genre of music whose offerings I wholly dislike. I like some more than others, and some I like very little. The only music that I really genuinely prefer not to listen to if I can avoid it is music that is specifically designed to soothe.
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Any particular reason?
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I feel like it's trying to shut me down, or to generate white noise in my brain.
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I can see that.
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I am pretty sure that it is designed to do exactly that, which is why it's soothing, but I definitely have a control freak aspect that can't deal with that.
I'm not fond of jazz, probably for a similar reason. Jazz engages analytical processing, and I want my analytical processing available to process the shit out of my environment so I can OCD it.
I do like some jazz, though.
Mesozoic Mister Nigel:
Also I can't stand the word "jazz", it occupies the same position of linguistic aesthetics as "slacks", "frappuccino", and "mucous".
minuspace:
--- Quote from: Not Your Nigel on October 13, 2013, 05:53:41 am ---Also I can't stand the word "jazz", it occupies the same position of linguistic aesthetics as "slacks", "frappuccino", and "mucous".
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All that jazz is just a political economy of noise
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