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Bones watchers! Answer me this important question: last night's episode. Should I watch it and mock heavily, or will it just fill me with rage? Inquiring minds want to know!

Date: 2009-05-09 01:16 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] sleepingcbw.livejournal.com
Even after reading the above, I watched it anyway, because I secretly hate myself. One more vote for "DUDE WTF FAIL."

Date: 2009-05-09 04:35 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] sleepingcbw.livejournal.com
Wow, you DO hate yourself.

Did I tell you I'm writing a paper about a Ferneyhough piece? I just opened the score to a page at random and found a quintuplet nested in a 19:12-plet (i.e., 19 beat divisions in the space of 12) nested in an 11:10-plet. (We're in 5/8, btw.) Every other instrumental line has crazy borrowed beats too, and none of them match up with this line. And this was a page chosen at random!

I'm claiming it's a re-imagining of a '70s piece in which the performers are told to look up at the sky and sing the constellations they see as if they were on staves.


Because the show is now a soap opera?

Naw, soap operas have better pacing.

Date: 2009-05-09 06:01 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] sleepingcbw.livejournal.com
Just the sound of that makes me want to run away screaming. YOU ARE OBVIOUSLY A MASOCHIST.

Well, I'm talking about the text a lot. Here're somes samples from the text:

A la mode
Lehar:
Did eider
Braxy angary
Read a nork?

Kryokytic aboral "up-
Start, squamose
Abdicant!"
Umpteen stuff:
Take-out-rank ap-
Pendage (leastways)
Is spondulicks.

(They're slightly-mangled acrostics for the Arabic names of stars.)


On the other hand, this I am totally stealing for the piece I'm thinking about writing.

Problem is, the performance takes about twenty-five people, and if you can scare up twenty-five people who care about Stockhausen (enough to perform a three-hour piece that involves torches and runners), odds are you're in a big enough city that you can't see the stars.

Date: 2009-05-11 02:07 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] sleepingcbw.livejournal.com
So that's partly where the comparison to the Stockhausen piece comes in?

Yeah. Stockhausen's indeterminacy was in the music, whereas Ferneyhough's indeterminacy is in textual interpretation (insert Barthes tangent here).


Oh, I didn't say I was stealing it for a piece of fiction about humans. :D

You write fiction about humans? :D

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