1. You could be listening to Bach but you are listening to Zelenka.
― bamcquern, Sunday, 22 November 2009 17:43 (fourteen years ago) link
Ha, I dont care if this is thread pachinko or whatever it's called, i do like zelenka. his masses are pretty beautiful.
― Henry Frog (Frogman Henry), Sunday, 22 November 2009 17:53 (fourteen years ago) link
http://aris.ss.uci.edu/rgarfias/japan99/pachinko.jpg
― sarahel, Sunday, 22 November 2009 18:00 (fourteen years ago) link
http://img.brothersoft.com/screenshots/softimage/p/pachinko_a_go_go-36609-1.jpeg
― sarahel, Sunday, 22 November 2009 18:03 (fourteen years ago) link
it is kind of sad how so many great and fun baroque/classical composers are almost totally ignored now in favour of the big names. It's like not hearing any other 60's/70's music but the beatles and the stones.
― Henry Frog (Frogman Henry), Sunday, 22 November 2009 18:07 (fourteen years ago) link
Yeah. If I'm in a bad mood I can't listen to Zelenka. If I'm in a good mood he sounds sublime.
― bamcquern, Sunday, 22 November 2009 18:16 (fourteen years ago) link
I mean, he sounds imitative and impotent and unimaginative if I have a headache or something.
― bamcquern, Sunday, 22 November 2009 18:17 (fourteen years ago) link
2. Sometimes considered a Catholic bigot.
― bamcquern, Friday, 27 November 2009 01:39 (fourteen years ago) link
this particular Xenakis piece has a sound in it that sounds exactly like the tone my computer makes when i have another message in gmail chat.
― sarahel, Monday, 30 November 2009 23:45 (fourteen years ago) link
Xenakis, HIS biography isn't boring.
― bamcquern, Monday, 30 November 2009 23:49 (fourteen years ago) link
I should read it.
― sarahel, Monday, 30 November 2009 23:57 (fourteen years ago) link