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    Zizek at Birkbeck

    i've been arriving between half an hour and twenty minutes early and always found it pretty full (but always managed to get a seat). my man Owen turned up to the first one at ten to two and had to sit onthe floor at the back... cracking lectures though. very entertaining.
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    the BBC Radiophonic Workshop

    thanks for all this. The idea that no-one really noticed it at the time, but the use of all these electronic sounds as background music on tv and radio (perhaps esp. in educational/children's programming) naturalised alien sound sources and thus paved the way for some sort of 'collective...
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    the BBC Radiophonic Workshop

    Hello there, am currently doing a bunch of research into the Radiophonic Workshop for my MMus dissertation. It's been mentioned in passing on here before, so i thought i might start a thread to gather people's thoughts and feelings on the music, legacy, influence, etc. Am perhaps particularly...
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    bLectum From bLechdom.....

    I saw her do this at the ocean rooms in brighton supporting Dat Politics (who were also amazing). Somehow, the absurdly escalating key changes of her whitney cover wasn't quite as funny as seeing her sat down with Max Tundra singing a duet of Extreme's More Than Words on an acoustic guitar and a...
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    Who's better...

    that shit'll kill you dude. aspartame n that. head cancer, innit.
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    Who's better...

    are you mental? always the real thing. pepsi, indeed! pah...
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    Who's better...

    divine every time, but perhaps more for the John Waters films than the actual 'singing' career.. rather than the smiths vs new order i'm tempted to pose joy division vs. new order but perhaps only because i'm probably the only person in the world who prefers new order and am in the mood for...
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    who is better: paul mccartney or phil collins?

    now, i know i'm kinda new here... but i have to say, althouhg a lot of people clearly thought a contest between two people as utterly crap as macca and collins was gonna be a bit of a non-starter, a pointless exercise in mud slinging and rose-tinted reminiscing.. and yeh we've had a bit of both...
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    New Orleans

    read in the Indie today that part of the reason Katrina escalated to such huge power and devastation was because of global warming (it's all to do with the temperature of the water by the coast apparently). so, for the bush administration, who claim glabal warming is just an unproved theory with...
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    one off bits of electronic pop joy

    do these count? van halen - jump pickety witch - son of my father pointer sisters - jump (ok, so its now as good as the girls aloud version but, still, a tune) taylor dane - tell it to my heart actually i rather like The Fiery Furnaces version of Single Again with big pumping bass synths all...
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    Ligetti, Berio, Nono, Feldman, Takemitsu

    i love Nancarrow's player piano studies. but i don't think i'm confusing the two..Vexations was considered unplayable until Cage performed it, some years after Satie's death. a friend who visited Satie's house (now a museum) fairly recently told me there was a player piano there (perhaps it was...
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    Ligetti, Berio, Nono, Feldman, Takemitsu

    i think aphex's interst in satie would be more about his approach to the piano (and his iconoclastic personality). There are certain similarities between some of satie's piano pieces (gymnopedies, vexations, etc) and some of the beatless 'twinkly bits' on drukqs. i think both also had an interst...
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    What is the West?

    In some ways, it doesn't really make too much sense to try and define the west geographically or historically because ultimately it is something constructed through a series of phantasies of the other, which of course are always changing. the west is basically anything which is NOT the orient -...
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    Ligetti, Berio, Nono, Feldman, Takemitsu

    perhaps simply because the electronic stuff has become part of an official canon of antecedents for techno, ambient, electronica etc. Aphex will namecheck stockhausen but not brian ferneyhough....
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    Musical Dynasties

    There's the Copper Family - they've been passing their songs down the family line orally for hundreds of years (i think they might've written a few of the lyrics down, maybe recorded a couple but only in the last thirty or forty years at most).
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    Ligetti, Berio, Nono, Feldman, Takemitsu

    Foucault had an intersting line on formalism (in an essay on Boulez), saying it had always been an enemy of the oppressive state regimes of the 20th C. (stalinism, fascism etc..), he refers to it as a "power of transformation...force for innovation, locus of thought.". I think to attempt to...
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