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I'll check this out tomorrrow, Thor, my brain has completely morphed into Silly Putty and I'm just trying to get through posts so I can crawl into my cold empty bed.
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I would check it out, but I have dial-up so it would take an hour. Maybe I will look at it tommorow on campus.
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Bear in mind this is just my opinion and that if there's a style you're trying for here, it's not one I'm familiar with or a big fan of.
With all due respect, it sounds totally self indulgent. You're not writing and recording a work for people to listen to as they would music on an album; you're trying to make statements. It sounds like performance poetry mixed with John Cage. (Except that Cage used some truly brilliant musical and acoustical techniques to achieve his work.)
Musically I couldn't get into it.
The drum machine samples were really lacking in presence.
The guitar work on "A Baby is Born" had multiple issues for me. The solo finger-picking at the start sounded utterly soulless, like it'd been played without feeling to a metronome, while the crunching rhythm work throughout the centre sounded like a stoned recording session.
As I said, it's not my style at all, so I'm probably looking at it from the wrong perspective, but I didn't get anything from this musically.
Sorry Thor, I'm truly not trying to run you down, it's my perspective, so feel free to ignore.
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Bayonet was unintelligible, but at least it wasn't the same as the other three, which all sounded like they were all recorded from the same Robitussin-influenced trip.
Soulless.
C'mon Thor, where's the desire to make beautiful music? You've shown there's better in you than this.
It's just my opinion, of course. I may not be "getting" it.
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You ought to write poems and songs or maybe really cool plays were people just say interesting things.
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This does not entirely suck. (From me, that's a compliment.)
It shows some good ideas about form and development. Especially the end, the end was logically progressed down to nothing.
I hated the drum samples. This may be a technology limitation. It sounded about as interesting as the rapping of a ruler on a desk. I would have liked to hear a more full sound, or perhaps a sound that varied from time to time.
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Thor, perhaps soulless was a bit strong, but the works really fell below my expectations of you.
From all you've written and said over the years, I just expected something more melodic and heartfelt.
Instead, we got as you said "performance art", which is often (not just with this stuff) neither art or much of a performance.
Like I said before, I just know you've got better stuff in you. Too much emphasis on production tricks and electronics, not enough of Thor, yanno?
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