Bjork - Sonic Symbolism is blowing me away at the moment, it's hard to pick a single episode.

https://pod.link/bjork

Thanks for that. This is wonderful.

So who is waging that war on music? Critics? Composers? Was there a grand conspiracy at some point in time when the composers got together and decided to alienate all audiences and start writing incomprehensible unlistenable atonal music?

What is the ultimate reason for creating art that the average "consumer" doesn't enjoy? Maybe it's because creators want to push boundaries, but the "consumers" don't educate themselves? Or should popularity and enjoyability be the only thing that decides if new art is good? Then really, just stick to Spotify algorithm and get more of the same, over and over.

My mother teaches music history and theory at the music academy. I remember the first I played Daft Punk "Around the World" to her. Her reaction was "who could listen to this???"

> Maybe it's because creators want to push boundaries, but the "consumers" don't educate themselves?

I think an artist's job is to translate beauty from their imagination to other people's perception. If an artist wants to "push boundaries" and complains that people don't "educate themselves", that just means they're a bad translator - a bad artist.

Vytautas Miškinis is Lithuanian, but what a great list!

Thanks – do'h!

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Perhaps the poster had a strong reaction to propaganda?

I guess you mean subtractive, not reductive synthesis :)

for context: Russia has 12 times more proven oil reserves (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_proven_oil...). Now imagine russians in this situation.

Well, Russia just wrote off $32 billions of Cuba debt[1]. I'm not telling that this is the same thing, but still...

[1]: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-07-11/russia-writes-off-9...

that's really unusual for Russians. Cuba has plenty of peninsulas waiting be annexed... :)

It was supposed to be a snub at the US, as we recently renewed trade sanctions against Cuba.

I saw that umbrella in Amsterdam @ MHD. Sadly, they just showed how it worked but not how it was made.

what about pdf?