Monday, January 31, 2011

The Tuning System is a Kludge

Dramatic Irony of Deceptive Cadence

Monday, January 24, 2011

On the Difficulty of Zardoz



Zardoz is a pretty badass alchemical film experiment but it's definitely not for everybody. if taken seriously it's quite disturbing, but if taken lightly isn't really watchable (unless you enjoy the colors, the psychedelic and SF head trips and the lovely lovely Ludwig Van--in which case you needn't even pay attention!). Zardoz is a major problem film that has been sorely neglected in the theory literature. up there with jodorowski's holy mountain, Cronenberg's videodrome in the weird fucked up movies that eat themselves category. I wouldn't wish them on my worst enemy, although they're some of the only films that interest me enough to write seriously about. But surely they're just as worth our time as the latest high budget mindfuck simulacrum?

Monday, January 10, 2011

Ironic Beauty in Unfortunate Juxtaposition

George Washington's Math Rock

Harmonies of the Cosmos in Parallax Dialectic with Unities of Mind (Abstracted)

Dark Dissonance Tradeoffs in Harmonic Contract Law

"This Is Our Time" -Mr. Hand

Charismatic-Apocalyptic Voice-Leading

It Resists Being Absorbed All At Once in One Image

Enochian Checklist for Stress Emphasis

Cadence Resolution as Flying Carpet

Circle of Fifths as "Nothing But a Deck of Cards"

Two Pillars or Melodic Escape Routes

The Map is Not the Score

Fiendish Interval Gematria Matrix

Interruption of Narrative

Down the Atonal Rabbit Hole

Stepping Aside from Contrapuntal Injustice

Print Me

Atonality Bargain, the Word Document