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Monday, November 26, 2012

Symphony for the Office


No, I don’t mean the television series in either its American or British formats. I meant, you know, like an office…with cubicles and shit. Anyway, use this article to go to a composition by Rolf Liebermann. I’ll wait…

Okay, so if you managed to get through thirty seconds of that without losing your goddamned mind, congrats you fared much better than me. Hey, I love trying new and crazy things as much as the next guy, but at some point it is important to remember that a gimmick is not a replacement for an actual artistic experiment. But that’s just me, if you liked it than I’m not disparaging your musical taste at all. I’m happy for you, nay envious. I think it’s a cool concept, but I also think it could have pushed itself a little harder to make a better tune.

Artist's renderign of my reaction to this song
 
The huffpost article asks us “What do you get when you combine 16 typewriters, 18 calculators, eight accounting machines, 12 office perforators, 10 cash registers, eight humidifiers, eight tickers, two metronomes, four bells, two entrance door gongs, 10 electric horns, 16 telephones, 40 experimental signal receptors, a fork lift, a duplicator and an elevator?” Well, unnamed author, for one you get a long fucking paragraph of a question, and two you get one of the most annoying techno songs made entirely of things that inhabit workplaces…take that as you will


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