Cacophony, Dissonance, White Noise and Other Sonic Assaults
Twelve-Tone Greatest Hits
Very droll.
Posted By: Paul - Wed Mar 27, 2019 -
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Category: Music, Twentieth Century, Cacophony, Dissonance, White Noise and Other Sonic Assaults
Céleste Boursier-Mougenot
I believe we've seen the birds-and-guitars piece before, but not the others.His Wikipedia page.
Posted By: Paul - Wed Dec 26, 2018 -
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Category: Art, Avant Garde, Beauty, Ugliness and Other Aesthetic Issues, Museums, Music, Europe, Cacophony, Dissonance, White Noise and Other Sonic Assaults
Yoko “Sings”
Let us know when you bail.
Posted By: Paul - Fri Nov 30, 2018 -
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Category: Annoying Things, Cacophony, Dissonance, White Noise and Other Sonic Assaults, Music, 1960s
Accordion Orchestras
Once upon a time, there existed the Hohner Accordion Symphony Orchestra. Amazingly, in this age of mass-digitization, none of their work appears to be on YouTube.But luckily, other similar groups have stepped into the breach.
Posted By: Paul - Wed Nov 07, 2018 -
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Category: Music, Cacophony, Dissonance, White Noise and Other Sonic Assaults
Stereopticon
Let us know when you bail. The visuals start after 45 seconds.
“Stereopticon treats sense data or phenomena as the root of structured
thought. It is not in the line of experimental films which present
visual and audial phenomena as matter directly perceived. Instead
Stereopticon delineates its own structure by means of a moving interposed
view point and counter viewpoint : by continuous motion it implies or
circumscribes a complete cosmology. The structure is musical and circular,
rather than dramatic and linear, and is constructed of six movements and mood cycles...”
Posted By: Paul - Tue Jul 24, 2018 -
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Category: Movies, Pop Art, Surrealism, 1960s, Cacophony, Dissonance, White Noise and Other Sonic Assaults
Sound Effects—U.S. Air Force Firepower
A 1962 release that included tracks such as:• Sonic Boom: F-104 "Starfighter"
• F-100's Fire Mixed Loads Of Rockets At Ground Targets
• Mass Napalm Attack By F-100's (Ground Bursts)
• Nuclear Bomb Explosion, Yucca Flat, Nevada
• 20 MM Vulcan "Gatling Gun" Type Aircraft Cannon
You can peruse the full list of tracks at discogs.com.
The Akron Beacon Journal - Oct 4, 1962
Posted By: Alex - Mon Jul 23, 2018 -
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Category: Military, 1960s, Cacophony, Dissonance, White Noise and Other Sonic Assaults
The Chipmunks: “America the Beautiful”
Is there any other country that will feature such a version of one of its sacred national songs? I thought not. Case for the USA being the greatest nation: closed!
Posted By: Paul - Tue May 01, 2018 -
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Category: Animals, Music, 1960s, North America, Cacophony, Dissonance, White Noise and Other Sonic Assaults
Magma’s Invented Language
Vander invented a constructed language, Kobaïan, in which most lyrics are sung. In a 1977 interview with Vander and long-time Magma vocalist Klaus Blasquiz, Blasquiz said that Kobaïan is a "phonetic language made by elements of the Slavonic and Germanic languages to be able to express some things musically. The language has of course a content, but not word by word."[1] Vander himself has said that, "When I wrote, the sounds [of Kobaïan] came naturally with it—I didn’t intellectualise the process by saying 'Ok, now I’m going to write some words in a particular language', it was really sounds that were coming at the same time as the music."[2] Later albums tell different stories set in more ancient times; however, the Kobaïan language remains an integral part of the music.
Their Wikipedia page.
Posted By: Paul - Tue Feb 27, 2018 -
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Category: Languages, Music, 1970s, Europe, Cacophony, Dissonance, White Noise and Other Sonic Assaults
Sal Mineo Drum Contest
Posted By: Paul - Sat Feb 24, 2018 -
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Category: Movies, Television, 1950s, Cacophony, Dissonance, White Noise and Other Sonic Assaults
MONTEZUMA: the Opera
Ambitious failure, or noble travesty? Decide for yourself!
"The opera contains human sacrifice, burning at the stake, stabbing, stoning, rule by terror, cannibalism, a love story, war, homesickness, intrigue, a ritual dance, and the supernatural...[T]he opera's greatest defect is its libretto, a 'farrago of poetasty', which is 'a ghastly example of self-parody that even a Robert Benchley could not have topped.'"
Source of quote.
Posted By: Paul - Fri Feb 09, 2018 -
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Category: Ineptness, Crudity, Talentlessness, Kitsch, and Bad Art, Music, 1960s, North America, Cacophony, Dissonance, White Noise and Other Sonic Assaults
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