idk about anyone else but I don't mean god or religion or spirituality in any cosmological sense, cos I don't believe in any of that stuff
it's talking about how people relate to the world around them, the mediums we use to try to explain the world to ourselves, the shorthand we use to abstract concepts
how is that not about digitization and the omnipresent internet?
Another interesting point, regarding the omnipresence of the internet - there is the old notion of God as the all-seeing-eye. The Snowden affair had strong resemblence to this idea - it was just that God got exchanged with the NSA spy programmes.
i mean something like dam-funk is probably reactive right. so we could apply the same to black metal.
But what exactly is not reactive today?
And when does something start becoming reactive? the traditional trend cycles have all disipated.
well this is EXACTLY the new theology which is being cooked up in silicon valley with everyone competing to play John the Baptist to the coming AI messiah.
i really think this is worth paying attention to (is lurid, is bizzare, is revealing) and i'm glad you brought it up.
how is the technology transformed and projected in our fantasies and fears? think along the lines of Mike Davis' treatment of pulp fiction and film in city of quartz. the apocalyptic element, the race wars etc etc
especially Steve jobs - the Messiah figure of the digital age.
http://www.aqua-soft.org/forum/topic/57393-any-of-the-originals-here-still/Apple's got a lot to answer for wrt this topic. Aesthetic based lifestyles.
It's a computer.
"Technology should be beautiful"
Mhmm.
And not that it shouldn't. But there's some deep psychology behind the branding there. How many of you are on a mac right now?
how does this song reflect your experience with computers, phones, the internet?
how about this one?
This reminds me of the stuff we were discussing in that Wreck-It Ralph 2 thread a while back, you've got CG characters on screen who exist within screens in the world of the film as they're video game characters and they burrow even further by getting into the internet and interacting with characters from within other screens as well as referencing companies and products we interact with through screens irl.
Vocoder is "man-machine", robotic, i.e. less than human
Auto-Tune is supra-human, hyper-soul
musically you'd need to look to Alva Noto prototypes and tranceform I think. cold emotionless micro reflections. I guess the sort of Migos sound is more like losing ones virginity, amazing sex at first but gets emotionally limiting eventually. whereas with noto it's that gaping void. if anything the internet and the way its structured is a zone of fruitless intensification. all neurons maxed out.
youre saying accept the possible. fine. we do that. then what?
in 2018 i want music to serve as anti-weed in its sonics. in that sense i am kind of on a digitalised This Heat tip. music that stones you, but not in the way of being immersed. jagged and presentist.
well, i disagree. it's like eden's front house back house distinction thing. i think we are in a period that is so conformistly possible its nauseating.