[Genteel Death]

There are many. there is time.

[the ikara cult]

doesnt asp like anything as long as it isnt Magik Markers?

[Genteel Death]

Originally Posted by the ikara cult

doesnt asp like anything as long as it isnt Magik Markers?

Great post.

[ni'k]

its like he's so close to everyone here he knows all their personal eccentricities.

sounds so cool.

[Genteel Death]

Originally Posted by ni'k

sounds so cool.

my faVourite albun

[atsonicpark]

I love the Markers. Just got into them about 6 months ago. You have to be in the right mood for them. I made a long post, or two, about how I dig 'em, and I reccomend people give things a chance, because people change all the time. I emailed Peter, too, and we talked, and he's a cool dude (always thought he was an amazing drummer). I really love the long drugged out hazy foggy jams the best. I TRUST MY GUITAR ETC. is actually awesome. They bring to mind some other things I like, like Dead C and Jandek -- not so much in their sound, but their approach (occasionally), some of the techniques and production they employ. Anyway, I was a different person when I first listened to them, like 6 years ago now. I have almost all their albums downloaded now and listen to them quite frequently. Awesome band.

The only band I absolute hate, and can't find anything redeeming about is the Mars Volta.

...Anyway, this is a great thread, I guess. I am enthusiastic about great music, books, video games, and movies. I usually don't waste my time with stuff I don't care about. So, yay. I am just so blown away nearly every day by the insane amount of new, unique, awesome music that I discover -- it really makes me wonder how much great stuff is really out there. I go through these phases.. I went through a year where all I listened to was techno.. maybe 6 months where I was just into EAI. Lately I've been jamming tons of Malade de Souci, who are just unreal if you're into brilliant guitar music. Also, been listening to al the Konono N° 1 stuff, which is godlike. I guess the "problem" is that I just love music.. no, I love SOUND so much.. that I find even bands I dislike compelling. It makes life a lot more tolerable. I've hung out with people who only listen to, oh, Death Cab for Cutie and Dashboard Confessional, and that stuff made me sob in its shittiness at first, but actually, there's usually some pretty cool hooks.. Death Cab dude has a good voice.. Dashboard.. that's a lot harder for me to say anything good about. Lemme get back to you on that one.

[the ikara cult]

i was being kinda faecetious, Cooley has good taste, he likes Ikara Colt after all. Being hugely enthusiastic about what you like is an asset rather than a character flaw in my eyes, especially here.

[ni'k]

Originally Posted by ni'k

its like he's so close to everyone here he knows all their personal eccentricities.

sounds so cool.

referring to ikara btw

[the ikara cult]

Originally Posted by atsonicpark

I love the Markers. Just got into them about 6 months ago. You have to be in the right mood for them. I made a long post, or two, about them. I emailed Peter, too, and we talked, and he's a cool dude (always thought he was an amazing drummer). I really love the long drugged out hazy foggy jams the best. I TRUST MY GUITAR ETC. is actually awesome. They bring to mind some other things I like, like Dead C and Jandek -- not so much in their sound, but their approach (occasionally), some of the techniques and production they employ.

The only band I absolute hate, and can't find anything redeeming about is the Mars Volta.

Anyway, this is a great thread. I am enthusiastic about great music, books, video games, and movies. I usually don't waste my time with stuff I don't care about. So, good.

wahay, there we go, we agree.

[Genteel Death]

Originally Posted by atsonicpark

I love the Markers. Just got into them about 6 months ago. You have to be in the right mood for them. I made a long post, or two, about how I dig 'em, and I reccomend people give things a chance, because people change all the time. I emailed Peter, too, and we talked, and he's a cool dude (always thought he was an amazing drummer). I really love the long drugged out hazy foggy jams the best. I TRUST MY GUITAR ETC. is actually awesome. They bring to mind some other things I like, like Dead C and Jandek -- not so much in their sound, but their approach (occasionally), some of the techniques and production they employ. Anyway, I was a different person when I first listened to them, like 6 years ago now. I have almost all their albums downloaded now and listen to them quite frequently. Awesome band.

The only band I absolute hate, and can't find anything redeeming about is the Mars Volta.

Anyway, this is a great thread. I am enthusiastic about great music, books, video games, and movies. I usually don't waste my time with stuff I don't care about. So, good.

just taking the mickey don't worry

[atsonicpark]

Fuck yeah, Ikara Colt are amazing. I actually bought Chat and Business when it came out, on a whim, and was blown away (a local music store was selling it for, like, $7.99 new). Still addicted to that album. I remember I read somewhere they were similiar to like At the Drive-In, Refused, and stuff like that.. obviously, they aren't, but I guess they have some of the energy of those bands.. I always loved that kinda sound. Ikara Cult are all their own, really, those brilliant cutting one string riffs, and I LOVE the bass playing. THe drummer is one of my favorites, so unhinged and out of control.

Also, all their best songs start with one loud snare hit. *BOOM*

Just an amazing band.

Also, the guitarist's favorite guitarist is (was?) Thurston Moore.

Thinking about it now, I don't think there really are any bands that sound like them... maybe Your Enemies Friends (though they were a bit more complex and keyboard driven).

[atsonicpark]

Radio "hits" deliver long term brain damage.


Researchers at the University of Nijmegen report today that sustained exposure to certain musical structures through headphones may, in as few as five years, shrink soft cartilaginous tissues of the outer ear and weaken craniofacial nerves. For 3% of test subjects, the effect is accompanied by slight deformation of the sinus cavity and neurasthenia within the prefrontal cortex.

Scientists believe the condition correlates significantly to a documented rise in musical homogeneity since 1985, an effect sociologists have attributed to the inability of audiences to dislodge aesthetic taste from narrow and repetitive conventions of popular music. The study has been funded as part of renewed efforts to investigate the role of socio-economic, cultural, and even aesthetic factors in human epigenetics. The multidisciplinary research team at the University of Nijmegen includes political scientists, anthropologists and ethnomusicologists. In their report, the team describes lax enforcement against payola radio; a statistical analysis of radio playlists reveal that a handful of songs on heaviest rotation have not changed in more than forty years.

The tendency to cling to outdated artistic forms as evidenced by the persistence of “hit music” in popular culture since 1965 is what led the Nijmegen researchers to investigate the possibility of attendant physical effects. “We found a significant neurasthenic effect. Apparently, listening to Hotel California three thousand times doesn’t just suck, it can actually cave-in the head and debilitate the prefrontal cortex.” Martin Ledwick, head nurse on the research team, said in a statement. “Think of it as an injury, a kind of plantar fasciitis, the equivalent of shin splints caused by traipsing endlessly over one musical terrain.”

Dr. Emil DeMaris, professor of Psychoacoustics, presented the group’s findings at a conference in Rotterdam. “Our species is perhaps poorly described as Homo Sapiens. We are in many ways a herd species, led astray by a willingness to conform to social stability so long as basic needs of food, shelter and clothing have been met. This social behavioral fact makes human beings particularly susceptible to the numbing effects of cultural homogeneity. The danger to humans is no different than domesticating other species; a herd of wild caribou survives in the shifting environment of arctic tundra, but slowly perishes in the stultifying terrarium environment, a Habi-trail, either for caribou or humans is a tool of genocide. We have been dangerously slow to detect the equivalent tools wielded in corporate advertising culture today.”

By focusing on contemporary art and popular music, DeMaris said his team sought to improve on “the myopia of the microscope” which passes for scientific method today. “The assumption that humans are ruled by logic, long discredited in economics and political science, persists today as the facile foundation of too many scientific disciplines.” The report, to be published in the Journal of Psychoacoustics, concludes that human faculties of reason and perception are engaged most fully by experiences that are unnerving, confounding, and even terrifying.

Pressed by reporters to explain whether and how science should arbitrate aesthetic and cultural tastes, DeMaris explained that his team took an “anything but Top 40” approach and had found many contemporary artists actively developing radically new aesthetics. Study participants introduced to recordings from a new musical group called Nerfbau showed high brain function in the amygdala, the part of the brain responsible for fight or flight responses which are known to heighten acuity of perception. The researchers also cite facial expressions of anguish, horror, surprise, and amazement as responsible for the attendant strengthening of craniofacial nerves rooted to the outer ear. Such phenomena were present in fewer than .01% of control subjects who were more likely to exhibit slack facial expressions when exposed to music from the VH1 Classics playlist. Members of the band Nerfbau were contacted for comment via their record label, Resipiscent. Responding by phone and only through voice masking software, one band member was quoted as saying, “Blood builds your smiles from loose screams.”

© Thomson Reuters 2010 All rights reversed

[atsonicpark]

 

[Genteel Death]

 

[atsonicpark]

my celebrity lookalike

[Dr. Eugene Felikson]

atsonicpark blows

[EVOLghost]

atsonicpark. is this video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wUYpL...eature=related one of your favorite things? cause it's one of mine right now. and if it is one of yer favorite things....then I think it'll be okay to post it here in this thread.

[gast30]

Originally Posted by atsonicpark

Radio "hits" deliver long term brain damage.


Researchers at the University of Nijmegen report today that sustained exposure to certain musical structures through headphones may, in as few as five years, shrink soft cartilaginous tissues of the outer ear and weaken craniofacial nerves. For 3% of test subjects, the effect is accompanied by slight deformation of the sinus cavity and neurasthenia within the prefrontal cortex.

Scientists believe the condition correlates significantly to a documented rise in musical homogeneity since 1985, an effect sociologists have attributed to the inability of audiences to dislodge aesthetic taste from narrow and repetitive conventions of popular music. The study has been funded as part of renewed efforts to investigate the role of socio-economic, cultural, and even aesthetic factors in human epigenetics. The multidisciplinary research team at the University of Nijmegen includes political scientists, anthropologists and ethnomusicologists. In their report, the team describes lax enforcement against payola radio; a statistical analysis of radio playlists reveal that a handful of songs on heaviest rotation have not changed in more than forty years.

The tendency to cling to outdated artistic forms as evidenced by the persistence of “hit music” in popular culture since 1965 is what led the Nijmegen researchers to investigate the possibility of attendant physical effects. “We found a significant neurasthenic effect. Apparently, listening to Hotel California three thousand times doesn’t just suck, it can actually cave-in the head and debilitate the prefrontal cortex.” Martin Ledwick, head nurse on the research team, said in a statement. “Think of it as an injury, a kind of plantar fasciitis, the equivalent of shin splints caused by traipsing endlessly over one musical terrain.”

Dr. Emil DeMaris, professor of Psychoacoustics, presented the group’s findings at a conference in Rotterdam. “Our species is perhaps poorly described as Homo Sapiens. We are in many ways a herd species, led astray by a willingness to conform to social stability so long as basic needs of food, shelter and clothing have been met. This social behavioral fact makes human beings particularly susceptible to the numbing effects of cultural homogeneity. The danger to humans is no different than domesticating other species; a herd of wild caribou survives in the shifting environment of arctic tundra, but slowly perishes in the stultifying terrarium environment, a Habi-trail, either for caribou or humans is a tool of genocide. We have been dangerously slow to detect the equivalent tools wielded in corporate advertising culture today.”

By focusing on contemporary art and popular music, DeMaris said his team sought to improve on “the myopia of the microscope” which passes for scientific method today. “The assumption that humans are ruled by logic, long discredited in economics and political science, persists today as the facile foundation of too many scientific disciplines.” The report, to be published in the Journal of Psychoacoustics, concludes that human faculties of reason and perception are engaged most fully by experiences that are unnerving, confounding, and even terrifying.

Pressed by reporters to explain whether and how science should arbitrate aesthetic and cultural tastes, DeMaris explained that his team took an “anything but Top 40” approach and had found many contemporary artists actively developing radically new aesthetics. Study participants introduced to recordings from a new musical group called Nerfbau showed high brain function in the amygdala, the part of the brain responsible for fight or flight responses which are known to heighten acuity of perception. The researchers also cite facial expressions of anguish, horror, surprise, and amazement as responsible for the attendant strengthening of craniofacial nerves rooted to the outer ear. Such phenomena were present in fewer than .01% of control subjects who were more likely to exhibit slack facial expressions when exposed to music from the VH1 Classics playlist. Members of the band Nerfbau were contacted for comment via their record label, Resipiscent. Responding by phone and only through voice masking software, one band member was quoted as saying, “Blood builds your smiles from loose screams.”

© Thomson Reuters 2010 All rights reversed

intresting

today i have seen a book revieuw about forgetting
and he said that there were about 256 different memories in the human brain
the thing with a smell is less to be remomerable i think because it has to do with lower instinctif use and more simple
how ever sound would have it's place
where i don't know
by looking at tv
here and there i have my thoughts about humans making sound at surtain times and why

[shabbray2.0]

Originally Posted by Genteel Death

 

this shocked me way more then the human centipede last night.