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    I think the dumbest aspect of vaccine conspiracy is that the theory is kind of reliant upon a global political coordination and cooperation involving global governments that have really poor relations. Am I seriously to believe that the governments, researchers, peers, etc of USA, China, Russia, India, Israel, etc all conspired together against the populace to allow Bill Gates to get microchips in us? I mean, if that's what's gonna unite world governments, maybe we should give them a chance. ?
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    Iceland was the only one I didn't dislike tonight. It was typically Icelandic and hyper-kitsch-cool.
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    I've got a glass of whiskey
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    Bloody loved them when I was young. Liked half of Beaucoup Fish. Nothing after that (I did buy Barbara, but only played it once). I loved a lot of their 12" releases and b-sides Cherry Pie Deep Pan Tin There Moaner Jumbo is my fave track. Saw them live for first time two years ago. They played a lot of classics. It was great.
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    Henry Shitmat did a rummaging project which often wasn't amplified. I enjoyed some of those performances.
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    I get that it's not all 'up to 11' all the time, but it all still seems to rely on distorted metal noise. I'm really after something intentionally chill, but not "ambient music". I guess I'll have to make whatever it is I think I have in mind! ?
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    Thanks man. Yeah, there was definitely some interesting tension in that last scene. Not sure what the conversation was about.
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    Some street photography I did in Bristol UK. These were from my first excursions trying out the style. It's nerve-racking.
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    This may seem an absurd ponderance, but I never understood why noise music always has to be so noisy. By noisy, I mean loud and aggressive. Can noise music be as much about noises without needing to trigger discomfort? Or is that just ambient music or musique concrete? Can anyone recommend non-confrontational noise music? Something that simply celebrates atonal, arrhythmic structured or unstructured sound?
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    I know this is a video not a picture but I couldn't find the funny videos thread. 184959346_935369797258936_419845573867270342_n.mp4
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    This trombone player approves
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    Checked the comments. It's Bristol UK. I used to live there. Checks out. Total bristol thing to happen.
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    The harmonies in this Bulgarian choral music... Jaw dropping
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    I'm down with that. It'd be nice to have one for contemporary and one for traditional. "World Music" is a pretty redundant term. That Albanian choral stuff is lush too.
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    Love Zakir Hussain. We've got a "World Music" thread going on here this stuff would fit nicely into:
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    Good point. Absolutely there are "rules" in electronica music. It's precisely why electronic music has so many genre names and spin-offs. The elements which characterise a genre's sound are those rules. Tempo, rhythmic groove (4 to the floor / breakbeat), sound palette are major elements in electronica which place a piece of music into a genre, and many producers actively seek to adhere to those rules. In terms of harmony, I think there are fewer rules in electronic music. It's one of the things I love about electronic music; it can be inspired by any musical tradition around the world, based upon any harmonic tradition, but it's still electronic music. Incidentally, I am inspired by Bach harmony. After weekly exercises in writing SATB 4-part harmony in music class, it has stuck with me and influenced much of my music.
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    Having been raised in parts of Asia where TB, Malaria, Japanese encephalitis, Leprosy, Dengue Fever and Meningitis are rife and take 10,000s lives a year, I'm really happy that vaccines exist and I had access to them. Clever researchers and developers. Well done. I don't really get where all this suspicion about this particular vaccine has come from. It seems to me like a snowballing wave of mass hysteria and conspiracy theory.
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    On the topic of microtonality: Pakistani truck horns.
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    I studied piano from age 7, trombone from age 11, chose music modules throughout high school and did 2 yrs of a Music Composition degree at University. I have done a lot of music theory study. But, still, I rely on writing by sound as much as I do on theory. Often I don't register what key signature I'm writing in. I value my theory understanding of rhythm more than I do harmony. I was never as gifted as many of my friends in terms of recognising chords, harmonic modulations, and improvising on chord sequences. Many of those friends were as interested in rock/pop as they were classical or jazz music. Rhythm excites me, and I'm glad I understand the difference between simple and complex time, time signatures, duplets/triplets, etc. Throughout my education, classical education and love of electronica were usually kept separate. What I loved about a lot of electronic music was that it was made by producers who didn't have classical theory education, and that often resulted in surprising, happenchance results that a strictly classically trained composer might not think to plan to create. For example, classically trained composers are told not to use parallel harmony, as a loose rule, but I've heard it in electronic tracks where it really works.
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    Brilliant 3-part BBC documentary about the advent of writing around the world, and the impact that had on our civilisations. Really good. https://youtu.be/TyfIS9b77A8
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    Ukraine is fun too
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    Azerbaijan was cool
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    I know. Just being facetious.
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