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skygiants just introduced me to the musical experiment by Komar & Melamid and Dave Soldier that produced "The Most Wanted Song" and "The Most Unwanted Song" because thanks to the overlapping element of "intellectual stimulation," both compositions include references to Wittgenstein.
spatch came home as I was finishing up listening to the second and in between laughing hysterically, I said something like:
"So the most wanted song is essentially an R&B ballad with a slight tendency toward surrealism, but if you caught it on the radio and didn't pay too much attention to the lyrics, it would sound like a reasonably normal sample of adult contemporary, especially if you were told it had been generated by a neural network.
"The most unwanted song is a twenty-minute cantata of soprano sprechstimme of increasingly unhinged cowboy motifs while a children's choir reminds everyone to do their holiday shopping at Wal-Mart. A third voice enters with a bullhorn and shouts across the political spectrum until the whole thing finishes up in a side-by-side choral finale à la Broadway. It is a work of musical genius. It is n-v-t-s nuts. It sounds like David Byrne was driving through True Stories when he got T-boned by Arnold Schoenberg in Pierrot lunaire. It could be successfully performed by Russian Futurists to the extreme outrage of their audience. It is a bit on-brand these days that in the last section someone just shouts, 'Fascism!' The soprano raps about Wittgenstein to the beat of a tuba and then there is a bagpipe solo."
The website estimates that "fewer than 200 individuals of the world's total population would enjoy this piece."
*raises hand*
skygiants just introduced me to the musical experiment by Komar & Melamid and Dave Soldier that produced "The Most Wanted Song" and "The Most Unwanted Song" because thanks to the overlapping element of "intellectual stimulation," both compositions include references to Wittgenstein.spatch came home as I was finishing up listening to the second and in between laughing hysterically, I said something like:"So the most wanted song is essentially an R&B ballad with a slight tendency toward surrealism, but if you caught it on the radio and didn't pay too much attention to the lyrics, it would sound like a reasonably normal sample of adult contemporary, especially if you were told it had been generated by a neural network.
"The most unwanted song is a twenty-minute cantata of soprano sprechstimme of increasingly unhinged cowboy motifs while a children's choir reminds everyone to do their holiday shopping at Wal-Mart. A third voice enters with a bullhorn and shouts across the political spectrum until the whole thing finishes up in a side-by-side choral finale à la Broadway. It is a work of musical genius. It is n-v-t-s nuts. It sounds like David Byrne was driving through True Stories when he got T-boned by Arnold Schoenberg in Pierrot lunaire. It could be successfully performed by Russian Futurists to the extreme outrage of their audience. It is a bit on-brand these days that in the last section someone just shouts, 'Fascism!' The soprano raps about Wittgenstein to the beat of a tuba and then there is a bagpipe solo."
The website estimates that "fewer than 200 individuals of the world's total population would enjoy this piece."
*raises hand*
