Comments on: Adorno is an Idiot Egghead

By: squashed

squashed — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 07:19:19 +0000

not until you point me out which part I was wrong.

By: Dmitry

Dmitry — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 07:17:13 +0000

I like MdM and your posts, squashed, but with all due respect I think you should apologize to Adorno for ridiculing his timeless ideas just to make an amusing post.

By: squashed

squashed — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 16:27:20 +0000

Well for one he is an easy target. The kind of widely read academic text that I can debunk with my left pinky before breakfast is over. It makes an amusing blog post. In a way it’s my pet peeve how big lecture often waste time on irrelevant musing of kranky old man who doesn’t know what he is talking about and has zero relevancy to music.

So what if he can show cute example of Beethoven does one nice trick in a giant 15 minutes piece. A modern IDM does similar trick 20 times before the first 12 bars are over just by shifting pattern endlessly.

But like I say, it’s kinda cheapshot since we are talking about 60 years technological gap.

By: belchy

belchy — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 07:56:35 +0000

Can you explain why you wanted to critique adorno in the first place?

By: Docteur Sphere Nan

Docteur Sphere Nan — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 12:08:04 +0000

To Gavin: simply cuz the track is composed by Richard David James… The Alarm Will Sound crew is an orchestra which plays Aphex Twin compositions. And Blue Calx is one of his a.k.a.s

By: Echo

Echo — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 04:47:24 +0000

I think your point would be better served if you selected a text where Adorno is actually talking about pop, rather than where he is providing an Hegelian analysis of compositional form.

As it is, it just seems as though you took the opportunity to say against Adorno what everyone else has already said- which, unfortunately, is often equally misdirected- but in this case it is a complete non sequitur.

By: Gavin

Gavin — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 02:09:20 +0000

Track 01 sounds a bit Aphex-Twinish to me.

By: marto

marto — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 20:25:14 +0000

Ok… but only by the piece of text you quoted it seems to be more a theoretical analysis of musical techniques more than a 40s musical study. Or I misread… ;)