Music and Philosophy 4.5

This is just some links I forgot to include in my blog about absolute music and how certain songs would be rendered pointless and bland if one took the absolute approach to understanding them. I mentioned a few of these in my QA as well. Also i am posting some links that have to do with rythm in everything as we were saying on friday. i agree with most of the ideas we were throwing around.

Anti-Absolutte music:
I give you three exams of very deep and meaningful songs that wihtout their lyrics, feelings, moods, and images fail as quality music altogether, in fact, if you take them just on notes and tones, they are really quite bland or at least the first one is: Aimee Mann: Just What You Are. It's a song that is either about her father or boyfriend/husband and how he will never change becuase he is the way he is. it is very deep in it's meaning the first time i heard it i was hit with this feeling that i couldd relate---like everyone knows someone like this in their lives.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ArXL7uEQsEg&ob=av2e

The next one Keane: Somewhere Only We Know. I was a freshmen in highschool when Keane's first album came out with this song as the hit. It's a very artistic song and video it's like art house film for your ears. the lyrics are full of meaning and allagory and metaphore, like most of their songs. When i first heard this song i liked the melody and lyrics and once i really listened to it i felt like the lyrics were directed at me. we all want to go back to our little places in time and space where we were truly safe and happy and as we grow older those places seem farther away:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oextk-If8HQ&feature=related

This next song, I'm not going to lie and I'm not ashamed of it: I literally cried--i'm not talking teared up but serieously cried when i first heard the song. it was a school morning during breakfast and MTV was on which is weird becuase i never really watched MTV. this song came on and it is full to the brim with meaning and emotion and truly is a beautiful song. If you notice all these pieces are songs. Anyway, the song is about things that everyone as human beings go thru in their daily lives. it's about depression, stress, and axieties (so i can relate) but it is also about how we feel so lost, little, and alone when we are in these states, but that we never really are. there are people who care about us. even when we feel like there really is no one
"Alone. That was the dreaded word. He, Arthur Dent, was a lone man, alone and lonely. On loan from another dimension. A low no one with no one to lean on" Eion Colfer.
Someone will always listen. Even a stranger. It can also be taken as a kind of love song. the one singing is telling his loved one that they will never be alone.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JI-o25K6B-E&ob=av3e

There are so many other songs that discredit absolute music theory but for now this is a good start. However i would also encourage you all to listen to this i found today. a combination of somwhere only we know and fix you. they work so well together. i was thinking how much i love those songs and that i wish there was a combination. when i google this out of curiosity and blind hope, i came up with this.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kx5UPp_-_1M

Then we have the rhythm references. during class on friday all these examples kept poping up. i wrote some of them down to make sure i posted them.  to start with, morse code is a language made from rhythm. we discussed how music would in most cases fail as a language but rhythem is a different story. well here is the more code rhythm found in Bethoven. i saw this flash video back in early highschool back when i was really into flash videos:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X0HrbCbfwlg

Next is another flash video i first saw years ago. it involves the rhythm of an older windows operating system. believe it or not i used to be really into electronics and i thought this video was wicked cool. this guy made a song entirely out of the windows sounds:

http://winnoise.com/

This one is from a fantastic artsy movie that i fell in love with my sophmore year of high school . i highly recommend the movie. I will most likely do a review of it on here at some point. i do plan on review more than just zombie movies, i am after all a cinemaphile. it is mostly becuase i love the deep and hidden meanings in films, the philosophic, socio-political messages. and this blog is perfect for that. i actually just had a thought. we have an essentials of film class and several other film classes. we are a communications college, and we have such David Johnson philosophy classes as Art and Philosophy, Music and Philosophy, Literature and Philosophy (I hope you offer it again as i was unable to take it for next spring), we really should have a Film and Philosophy or Movies and Philosophy or Cinema and Philosophy or something. That would be great. in fact if i do become a professor, that is one of the classes i will teach. anyway, tangent, i digress. here is the link: it is about making music from houshold items:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nFa96dBT9VE&feature=related

Also, I mentioned this in one of my first QA's this semester having to do with music and intetion of random background sounds. it involves a Raver (as in clubs) who upon hearing the phone ring, notices other rhythmic sounds around the flat and makes music out of them in his head and begins to dance with them. i meant to post this a while ago but i'm doing now. it's from Simon Pegg's show Spaced which is a great show especially if you are a nerd. it is like a lazy and british version of Big Bang Theory (by lazy i mean the characters are more lazy). it also has pretty much every actor from Shaun of the Dead in it. TANGENT ALERT: if you like Simon Pegg and/or like Nerds in general, i highly recommend his book Nerd Do Well. Anyway, here is the link (sorry about all the tangents, i have has a stressful day and im like half asleep right now....so i also apologize for typos.)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q9is5gJORl4