math rock!

http://www.theoriginalsoundtrack.com/ile/mathrock.jpg

I scored Celebrate the New Dark Age for a mere quid yesterday, yayayay. And a Plod album. And another copy of Insides' "Sweet Tip" because I think someone ran off with the copy I already had. And I got laughed at in the dance shop for only buying stuff from the bargain racks, I felt like saying, "LOOK, I have spent many many pounds on your stupidly overpriced PROPER 12"s before now, but it's not my fault that you haven't had any interesting new stock in the ambient section for months and no dnb has grabbed me much since a couple of tracks over the summer," but instead I just continued my attempt at a fluffy puppy-like "I am far too dim and naive to bother hating oo help me help me I am indie moron lost in complicated dance shop" look.

Becky, This = key to everything.

But, hmm, well, it's not BAD but it's not particularly good either, in my opinion. I wouldn't recommend paying much for it but then I think my first copy was a two quid bargain-bin promo when it was pretty much new out so you probably wouldn't have to.

(I love liking stuff that makes record shop/stall staff think, "what the hell? we'll never sell this," even if it does make my heart bleed to see albums I already own and like in those sections. There was a Fizzarum cd in Avid for months and every time I was in there I felt like buying it even though I already had it just because it looked so lonely. I actually did re-buy Lackluster's "Container" earlier this year, too, but it was a buy-three-get-cheapest-free offer and I'd already got two more expensive cds from the same section and my existing copy was on vinyl which meant I hardly ever listened to it.)

(oh, um, er, mathrock... er, there's two Breadwinner live gigs for the grabbing up here if anyone's interested)

"mathamatical music, well you have to go into sequentialism"
"what's that?"
"You do know what an octave is?"
"[meekly] yes"
"Well the compositional structure means that you have to use every note from an octave within a bar"
[insert proper music theory about tertiary chords etc which I was in too much of a state to understand]
"... but the result is what we might call atonal, but I just think that it's because we don't understand the structure properly, not as common aural currency, so in years to come people will appreciate the real beauty there. Have you finsihed that spliff yet?"

Maths rocks - I know that much. Is Three - The magic number Math Rock?

I thought it sounded more like twelve-tone atonal composition and Schoenberg's dodecaphonic method than temperament and the circle of fifths but I don't know my music theory so I'm probably wrong and I won't attempt to explain. But if that is what is meant, math rock isn't twelve-tone (some of it might be but I don't think I know of any, but then I probably wouldn't notice apart from thinking "hm, bloody racket, I suppose I'm not clever enough"), it's just a loose description rather than a precise methodology.

Ulp, I'm posting about things I don't understand again...

Actually, I prefer the aleatoric, but I suppose that's because I'm a mere !statistician! who can't keep up with the determinism of you number theory freaks.

Golden!

How did I not know about this before?

No, actually I heard Summer in college and I thought it was good and sounded kind of like Zeppelin, but their s/t is so great! It's like the ideal Oxes were going for but never quite reached.

Oh wait, I meant to revive the ilm thread

I just wrote another song about maths. Does that count?

Oxes fucking pwn.

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