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.)
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: 2009-05-10 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