Can definitely sing along to some of the weirder ones by now. SILY: How did you approach the order of tracks on the record? JL : Just trying to show the range, and keep the surprises coming. Perpetual variety becomes monotony so quickly, so there is a very careful balancing act to play between shorter and longer tracks. Even things that sound like they should be songs: no guarantees. I still remember the first time I heard The Faust Tapes as a teenager.
Do you see a connection between those tracks? JL : The album hits you with all these miniatures in the middle to keep things moving, and those three are the last little barrage of them before the shift into the final stretch with the longer, more hypnotic pieces. JL : Totally family. JL : Multi-location live streams are a blast.
The time modulation inherent in all streaming is deeply psychedelic. The kind of listening you have to do when you know that the relationship of sounds together in time is different for each musician involved?
I sat in on a live stream with Thurston Moore Group a few months ago, the four of them in London, and me hooked up to an amp not far from where I normally am when I play with them. And everyone agreed: It felt like I was there, right up until the instant I quit the app. I finished an album mostly recorded outdoors with my old friend Cheryl E. That one took 14 years to finish. Doing a revision of the last episode of my podcast on sampling music, Variations , to incorporate that OpenAI music.
The issue is that North American culture, and its popular music, is unique in its homogenization of a wide array of different cultures. Composed between and , it not only borrows from the popular songs and idioms of the time, it distorts, twists, and overlaps recognizable themes.
The ensuing dissonance arising from an almost lulling string ostinato comes as a shock. Ives' goal, however, was a bit nobler than merely jarring his listeners; he just wanted to convey the sounds of a specific location, and that popular music was simply in the air. John Oswald later picked up on this notion, and with a sharp ear. Then there's Carl Stalling, responsible for the soundtracks to Warner Brothers' golden age cartoons.
Stalling's work was a jumble of classical themes-- often Wagner and Debussy-- showtunes, and popular standards he favored the work of the consistently inventive Raymond Scott.
Perhaps due to its delicate connection to the cartoons themselves, Stalling's work became a token example in any discussion of the connection between the visual and the aural.
Also from the late 70s, The Residents' Third Reich and Roll is a full album of popular hits from the 60s and 70s mangled into To arrive at this slant, The Residents-- who have yet to disclose their identities-- had to have placed an enormous amount of value on folk culture and its traditions. Folk culture somehow mutated into popular culture, which is possibly the most identifying aspect of America. Popular music as we know it has become all encompassing, not just a reaction to the aforementioned issues, but also one of them.
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