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| From | "Sager, Greg" <greg.sager@bankofamerica.com> |
| Subject | Labour Of Calculust |
| Date | Thu, 30 Mar 2006 05:09:23 -0500 |
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> Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2006 14:53:33 -0500
> From: "Josh Chasin" <jchasin@nyc.rr.com>
> To: <audities@smoe.org>
> Subject: Re: Matthew Sweet's New Girlfriend
> Message-ID: <021b01c6536a$76499390$6501a8c0@WarpSpeed>
>
> I always think of Crim's Discipline as the ultimate math rock
> record. It
> sounds like the music can be defined by equations. Like, if
> you plot 4x
> +x2y(y-z)/x-z, your solution will be whatever that is Fripp
> is playing.
>
If Rodan leaves Louisville on a train traveling east at 50 miles per hour, and Chavez leaves New York on a train traveling west at 60 miles per hour, and Louisville is 777 miles west of New York, how long will it take their music to make your cat hide under the furniture and your dog's hair to come out in clumps?
It amuses me that gnarled rock songs with tricky shifts in tempo and dynamics and improbable time signatures were once called "art rock" and then a generation later were called "math rock". I can't wait for the style to come back fifteen years from now, when music pundits will no doubt dub it "home ec rock".
Gregory Sager
NP: Schoolhouse Rock
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