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by gryfft 819 days ago
I remember showing this to a roommate's mom over a decade ago. She wondered aloud if it was like The Emperor's New Clothes or if we simply didn't understand music well enough to know why we shouldn't enjoy this.

I still like it, whatever it says about me.

2 comments

I like it too. It's an experiment in musical texture -- not to downplay the curation involved in getting a nice mix of instruments, which I'm sure took some skill.

To me, it's a bit similar to Skrillex or Rite of Spring, both of which I like almost completely because of their texture. If you like it, if you don't, that's fine -- no need to be prescriptivist about it. At the end of the day it's all just vibrations.

What suggests that you shouldn't like it?
The assumption that enjoying art should come from (at least some amount) the artists effort. There are a ton of exceptions, like enjoying nature, but "random" music shouldn't be as enjoyable as pieces created by human hours of experts.