been listening to mad renaissance music on pandora.
i start with the palestrina and machaut. then i go all dufay and desprez.
then just about the time you're getting out of the hospital, i'll be getting out of jail. then BAM: tallis.
cuz i'm stupid like that.
i love this shit I LOVE THIS FUCKING SHIT
it's like the dense harmonic counterpoint of classical music without any of the rigidity. a musical fluid that you pour over your brains. please listen. and then go and apply the gooey wisdom to your wonderful electronic music.
thus i have decreed. if you do not heed, i will make slaves of your wives and children, take your goods, mischief, damage, etc.
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GORDON FAQ: q: where does gordon like to poop? a: he is very picky about where he likes to poop. he tends to choose a different area everytime, about a mile away from the house on a walk. sometimes the person walking gordon will be able to suggest spots for him. bear in mind there is no template for a good spot-sometimes the area is grassy, sometimes he like to poop in a bush. mostly, he likes the poop to be out of the way. we think this comes from when he was a young puppy, and the people at the farm where he used to live would throw things at the giant pack of rotweiler puppies when they started to poop somewhere where they could see. q: why does gordon act like he\\\'s been abused? a: we\\\'ve been trying to figure that one out forever. ariel\\\'s had him since he was 6 weeks old, and she doesn\\\'t hit animals. probably it has something to do with him being a runt in the litter-all his brothers were big dopey rots, and he has a more slender lab appearance, so he probably got his share of beatings in the womb. he\\\'s mercurial. q: why does gordon \\"do bitings\\"? a: we think that\\\'s his nervous response to everything. although, it may have its root from when ariel was in college, living with a bunch of dirty hippies with fleas. q: why does gordon get \\"stinkface\\"? a: he likes to diguise himself from bigger dogs. he thinks \\"i\\\'ll just smell like a nice dead bird and nobody\\\'ll know i\\\'m here\\". q: what are some ways to address gordon? a: \\"best boy\\" sometimes pronounced \\"bist buwey\\" as in \\"he IS bist buueey\\". \\"speak boy,\\" \\"stink face,\\" \\"peanutbutter eyebrows,\\" \\"dancing peanutbutter,\\" \\"puppycakes,\\" \\"best swimming boy,\\" and \\"a real best boy\\" are also acceptable. q: why does \\"his lip get all messed up\\"? a: sometimes, when he\\\'s very focused, like on \\"some fishes\\" or a nice work of art, he\\\'ll close his mouth carelessly and get a hanglip. q: what are some of the grammamtical subtleties i need to know to communicate with gordon? a: he can spell, but only a few words like \\"w-a-l-k\\" and \\"l-e-a-s-h\\". also, present tense and third person are usually prefered such as \\"gordon goes to the puppy park\\" and \\"gordon wants a treat\\". however, the grammar is always in dispute. q: what kinds of music does gordon like? a: the more off-the-wall, the better. he especially likes conlon nancarrow and karlheinz stockhausen. seriously. OLIVER FAQ: q: why is he so goddamn cute? a: because he has no soul. q: why doesn\\\'t he have a soul? a: because he\\\'s so goddamn cute. q: is he a girl? is he a miniature lassie? OMF HE\\\'S SOOOO CUTE a: no, kind of, he\\\'s the devil. q: where does oliver like to poop? a: in the same spot in the neighbor\\\'s ivy every day. q: why does he get up all indignant when i sit next to him? a: because he\\\'s a little bastard. q: what kinds of music does oliver like? a: pop music, like kelly clarkson and ashlee simpson. q: can i pet him? a: you can try. q: is he really that cute? a: you\\\'d want to drop an anvil on him. My Gear
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Written January 15 2009
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machaut is actually medieval. so fuck me goatwise
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i think you've been misguided
link Pandora Site said: "Dear Pandora Visitor, We are deeply, deeply sorry to say that due to licensing constraints, we can no longer allow access to Pandora for listeners located outside of the U.S. We will continue to work diligently to realize the vision of a truly global Pandora, but for the time being we are required to restrict its use. We are very sad to have to do this, but there is no other alternative" harpsichord fascist  Now I am patiently waiting for Pextris to concoct a Photoshop of Astroid in a full-on RenFaire/SCA getup: leotards, Robin Hood hat, yard of ale in hand, leaping gaily through the English forests.
...playing a lute
Thanks for the recommendations, I have a project coming up where I needed some inspiration like this.
Question: what kind of old music would embody vikings? I love that shit too! I love it so much that about 2 months ago I went to the record store and bought about 20+ vinyls of renaissance/medieval music. It's really easy to get that stuff cheap...
Personally I love the pre-tonal harmony, that's really great, but there's lots of other wonderful things, too. Sometimes the lyrics, or the stories behind the music are really great. I love desprez, too... william byrd. John Downland is probably my favorite ever, but he's more late renaissance. dowland's lachrimae antiquae... link amazing recording if you don't ahve it... The lyrics in the music from the elizabethan period are really fun. I guess they sound arch-cornball but I think they're great, and it's fun to hear them written with music. link link link yr shit crashes my shit. dont know why
i think my favorites are definitely machaut and palestrina. machaut sounds pretty modern to my ears sometimes-wacky modulations and parallelism that sounds more modern than some other composers. medieval music is insane. the 11th century notre dame school of polyphony sounds pretty different from anything else. like those guys were singing 2 notes at once and having their minds constantly blown. the weight of harmony was new and total. landini is another crazy one. sounds like medieval polyphony, but with some truly grating dissonances. i even heard a minor third over a major third. but yeah.
pandora + wikipedia is better than music school. reading about gesualdo right now:
"Accounts on events after the murders differ. It was said that Gesualdo also murdered his second son by Maria, who was an infant, after looking into his eyes and doubting his paternity (according to contemporary sources he "swung the infant around in his cradle until the breath left his body"); " link lul kidko said: " Question: what kind of old music would embody vikings?" to finally un-answer your question... i looked on the omniscient internets. vikings have sagas, and prolly made some disturbing folk music, but they didn't produce any so-called 'art music'. meaning, nobody wrote their viking jamz down. "yr shit crashes my shit. dont know why"
where your links mster? links or stfu. don't make me google! just pandora.com
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