fyre festival is going well

shit, he's composed his music already, he just needs to feed that into one of those AI sites

The real fun is watching the video afterwards, though. Which is images of girls in bikini with nondescript edm on top...

The song begins with a shaker, a ticking clock, and the ethereal outer-space synth-bloops of Mr Sandra himself. It is ambient, confused, directionless, floating in space as Spiritualized’s previous album hadn’t quite managed. Vibraphones. Swirls. Then, a piano motif. Unlike Ulver’s, it is wholly upbeat, positive. It is the opening of a flower. Enter guitars, enter a whole fucking orchestra, let commence a quite marvellous (and surprisingly airy) bit of gospel pop. Even at this early stage, one can sense the scale of the project, the army of musicians, the strength of Pierce’s conviction. He is begging to be let into heaven, and he thinks he can do it. This is some pretty damn serious stuff. But it is mellow, and comforting, rather than mindblowing or triumphant like a rapture ought to be. Then, without warning, the third verse is in three-time. No biggie. The tune gets a bit more yearning in this bit, but that is to be expected for a middle-eight. That is a middle-eight, right? The song’s gonna be four and a half minutes long, right? Wind chimes chime. The song slows. Thighpaulsandra’s keyboards bleep, screech and whirr in a decidedly unearthly manner. More of him later. It begins to sound more like it might be taking place in a space-station, where all the best raptures happen. One final chorus. “I believe my time ain’t long.” Still sounding a tad complacent. But then, turns out the song was four and a half minutes long, after all, but some higher power (who is probably called Thighpaulsandra, but more of him I promise very soon now) decided he’d let it go on a tad longer, under his own instructions. At exactly 4.30, Pierce’s guitar starts wailing; an unending, spaced-out drone. TPS’ keyboards emit a clinical pulse, at once pure and energising. The song doubles in speed. The backing vibraphone bass begins to undulate, thrillingly. Tension abounds. Dickaty begins to solo all over the song. He is the wild, unchained dancer at the back of the procession. He is always there. He is doing his own thing. It adds immeasurably to the experience, because he is exuding divine will. In this silly Rapture, he sounds like the most liberated musician on earth. Then, the choir comes back in, this time led by Pierce. “I’m hoping. Praying. Lord, I’m saying. I believe my time ain’t long.” Tens of people, all belting it out. And meaning it. It’s beautiful, this belief. And then, at the 7-minute mark, the unthinkable finally happens.

God appears.

And his name, as I’ve said, is Thighpaulsandra.

The tone TPS extracts from his synths at the 7-minute mark of this song is possibly the most holy tone anybody has extracted from any instrument ever. It’s such a jawdropping moment, Pierce even lets him have a full brass fanfare to introduce himself from. This fanfare is then repeated numerous times throughout the rest of the song, as if celebrating the fact that it still can and sound good doing so. This song is now in the fanfare paradigm. But that tone. God. And Pierce’s droning guitar. And the orchestra. And then the gospel choir comes BACK IN over the top. It’s too much. It’s Rapture. How do they end it? How can they end it? They’ve gotten to Heaven. How do they possibly end it? The strings take over. The song slowly retreats. The strings are playing something conciliatory, something humble. The guitar drones down, spins away into the sunset. A final fanfare. The chords now being played by the orchestra are darker, more elusive. Everything fades, retreats, beauty itself shuts down, the clouds merge again, but they merge over a saved man and a saved musical enterprise. The voices soften, to sleep. All that’s left is for Thighpaulsandra to make a few final bleeps, burbles, and swooshes. He has taken them to outer space; he might as well have the last word. But more of him…later.

A+

dialing back 25% on staccato will land in a nice place

throttle up and down the lusciousness on level 3

keeps calling a surdo a sudro

luckily the global music plugins for Logic are quite amazing

astonishing

http://pitchfork.com/news/73303-fyre-festival-hit-with-two-more-lawsuits-one-alleging-bloodstained-mattresses/

"we're gonna be legends"? ... "we're gonna be fucking bankrupt", more like.

didn't realize "Cool Papa Bell" was a Paul Simon song and thought he was just randomly shouting out a Negro League baseball player in that email

Ha, same here! That bewildered me.

Paul Simon To Headline FYRE Festival '18, To Be Held In El Chapo's Tunnels

performing "Songs from the Capeman" in its entirety!

christ on a cross just pull a royalty-free stock track and ship it

Fyre Festival saw Vynl's rollout and thought "challenge accepted"

let's just do it and be legends of zelda, man

The idea that some key signatures are more consonant than others was the biggest standout there for me.

"pickety third" though

Subtly pickety at that, and without ending on I.

christ on a cross just pull a royalty-free stock track and ship it

P sure this is what they did in the end.

Some the parody musical requirements (and maybe some of the "real" ones) reminded me of http://spaceteam.ca/

The idea that some key signatures are more consonant than others was the biggest standout there for me.

― My Body's Made of Crushed Little Evening Stars (Sund4r), Saturday, May 6

lol yes. and that's saying something.

B-b-but how do you know he is not one of these Just Intonation guys?

that guy should post on ilm

We could just post his email on the Introduce Yourself! thread. It would fit right in.

pretty giggly throughout but i lost it here:

Tabla (which can be filtered)

yes something very smoov b about that one

damn.

40. Defendants represented, among other things, that (1) the Fyre Festival would take place on a private island; (2) the island was previously owned by infamous drug lord Pablo Escobar; (3) food and beverages would be provided, including VIP food packages and upgrades; (4) the living quarters would be fully furnished permanent structures; and (5) the event would be attended by celebrities, and that top-level musical talent would be performing.

from the 7th lawsuit. lol that no musical acts playing is an addendum to the 5th complaint, a side note after the attendance of celebrities.

Fuck Like Porn Stars>>>>>Live Like Movie Stars>>>>>>Party Like Rock Stars seems to be the line there

Great success!

https://news.vice.com/story/audio-fyre-festival-founders-reveal-to-employees-nobodys-getting-paid

On Friday, Billy McFarland, the 25-year-old founder of the disastrous Fyre Festival, told his shell-shocked employees that their paychecks covering the past two weeks would not be coming. Nor would he be firing them, a prerequisite for unemployment benefits in most states. Instead, McFarland offered to allow his dozen-or-so employees to stay on in unpaid roles, where they could work to grow the business to a place where they might get paid again.

"offered to let"

unpaid legends

towards the beginning of the piece...

McFarland urged those who still believed in the idea of the company to stick around and help build the talent booking service without pay.“I understand that this is not an ideal situation for everybody, and this will likely cause a lot of you to resign, which we totally get and understand,” he said. “That said, if you want to stick with us, we’d love to have you and we’d love to work together and hunker down and get back to a place where everything resumes to business as usual as usual.”

and at the end

Instead, most of the remaining Fyre Media employees quit en masse over the weekend and on Monday. Soon after, their access to their company email was shut off.

you're not fyred

'which we totally get *and* understand'

This is like the business version of that time Nickelback played in Portugal...

"It's up to you, d'ya wanna work for free or do you wanna go home!?" ... ... ... ... "See ya!"

Bloomberg reported that Comcast had a term sheet in March to invest $10.5 million in Fyre Media, valuing the company at about $100 million.

every time this fact pops up it's a big disconcerting

a bit disconcerting

Dis-concerting.

I think you mean "non-concerting"

Consciously un-concerting

^^^ winner

"hunker down and get back to a place where everything resumes to business as usual..."

uhhhhhhh hold on, what is "business as usual" exactly? feral pigs and limp cheese?

"Living like Movie Stars etc."

was "where everything resumes to business as usual as usual" a mistake or did he really say that? i love that if so. reminds me of VIZ's
"it's political correctness gone mad gone mad"

“We’re not firing anyone; we’re just letting you know that there will be no payroll in the short term.”

So much of this stuff reads like "Silicon Valley" dialogue.

love these guys. still admire the brazenness of "we can give you a refund or we can give you twice as many tickets to Fyre Festival 2018!"

http://assets1.ignimgs.com/2016/05/28/sunday-tv-silicon-valley1280jpg-6dabfc_400w.jpg