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!
(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.
(They're slightly-mangled acrostics for the Arabic names of stars.)
So that's partly where the comparison to the Stockhausen piece comes in?
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.
Oh, I didn't say I was stealing it for a piece of fiction about humans. :D (Or stealing the Stockhausen name, for that matter. Just the general concept.)
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Date: 2009-05-09 06:01 pm (UTC)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.
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Date: 2009-05-10 05:35 pm (UTC)...Meep.
(They're slightly-mangled acrostics for the Arabic names of stars.)
So that's partly where the comparison to the Stockhausen piece comes in?
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.
Oh, I didn't say I was stealing it for a piece of fiction about humans. :D (Or stealing the Stockhausen name, for that matter. Just the general concept.)
Also...torches and runners? Oh, my.
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Date: 2009-05-11 02:07 am (UTC)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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Date: 2009-05-11 02:59 am (UTC)Occasionally I do, yes. :D