Message from @The Enlightened Shepherd
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I mean i love Symphonies, i love classical music, i love all of that
But "highness" of that culture, and that music, isn't in the fact that they were orchestras
But in musical content itself
And people in those days, would judge them accordingly, because there was no other, inferior way of listening to multi-timbral type of music
Whatchyall talkin bout?
So someone could say that Tchaikovsky sucks, just as i would say today that a rock band or somebody sucks
And today to us, it seems completely outrageous how could anybody back then say that Tchaikovsky or Wagner suck
@RavishingRussian this:
HFT - Today at 11:59 AM
Shep- care to elaborate on what's wrong with art/music these days
Convo from last night
So you're arguing against cargo cult culture - it's not about the motions made but about the results as such
There is nothing "civilized" about Symphony as a medium, but people judge music performed by Symphonic orchestras by their "content"
The way back isn't, shortly put, in musical "reenactments" of 19th century, because that's what it genuinely is
People are reenacting the way people listened to music in 19th century
Which is OK if you want to feel how that felt, but is completely unecessary
Besides, we haven't really recovered our culture from ashes if we only listen to what we ALREADY made, instead of making new things
If our only way forward is "back to 19th century", that won't last long
@The Enlightened Shepherd
Besides, we haven't really recovered our culture from ashes if we only listen to what we ALREADY made, instead of making new things
==so true....
You could argue that current popular music is degenerate and we should turn back the time on thematic content and then retrace recent developments in a different way
It's not about reenactment, but about correcting a cultural mistake
And then going forward again
Current popular music IMO, is nothing but a stimulans. It's in world of music, what coffee is in world of drinks -cheap way to swiftly stimulate your senses
Degeneracy in this sense to be understood in it's most primordial meaning - weakness
There seems to be a feedback loop here, a culture that worsens the art and music, which in turn influences (the more easily influenced members of) the culture.
You need to fix the two simultaneously.
One interesting turn of events is the dramatical fall of music from profitability
And how musical producers, facing the prospect of being completely unable to make a living
Started making this "underground",or "indie" music, or as i like to call it, "music"
Most notable genres so far to me are ambient, dark ambient, industrial etc
There's plenty others, but i haven't really picked up
One striking difference is complete absence of lyrical content
Big words, designed to "inform" public
no more "anti-war" songs
The reason culture sucks is because its apart of the agenda to dumb us down and control us
No more lyricism of social grandeur such as The Queens and such
Have no pride in your country
Feel dumb
No more rock bands and glam bands to inform us in opinions
No culture whatsoever
In Russia, culture is everything, history is everything, literature and art and music is everything
I dont care for art but I love history
So yeah the reason its all Kim Kartrashian and shitty music and constant garbage is just all part of the agenda to dumb us down and make us weak.