Two guys stole a calendar.
They got six months each.
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Friday, June 17, 2022
Oh really?
Two windmills are standing on a wind farm.
One asks, “What’s your favorite type of music?”
The other says, “I’m a big metal fan.”
One asks, “What’s your favorite type of music?”
The other says, “I’m a big metal fan.”
Obviously...
If you’re American when you go in the bathroom...
... and American when you come out,
what are you in the bathroom?
European.
... and American when you come out,
what are you in the bathroom?
European.
Thursday, June 16, 2022
Tuesday, June 14, 2022
Dissonance: Jaws and Master of Puppets
Dissonance might be broadly defined as a music sound that strikes one as unpleasant. It is jumpy, alarming and lacks obvious resolution. So why use dissonant, even dischordant sounds? Excitement and tension are often given as a reason. Consonance is associated with the ideas of restful, smooth, tending to resolution.
Two or more simultaneous, overlapping or close-in-time dissonant sounds may themselves be dissonant: the dissonances reinforce into something else that is jarring and unpleasant.
But to me, the best use of dissonance is to weld a group of dissonant sounds together so that they form a consonant whole that is nevertheless invigorating, lively. "The (consonant) Gestalt is greater than the sum of its (dissonant) parts," so to speak.
In the world of painting, a way to tell the difference between real "modern art" and the fake stuff is to see whether the disparate pictorial dissonances come together to form a higher Gestalt with a form of consonance sometimes called id.
Some listeners hear only the dissonance in metal. Others hear the higher Gestalt as well.
Here in the Fallen World, we tend to experience a chaos of dissonances. But in Paradise perhaps all those dissonances will come together as something higher: grace, beauty and love.
Two or more simultaneous, overlapping or close-in-time dissonant sounds may themselves be dissonant: the dissonances reinforce into something else that is jarring and unpleasant.
But to me, the best use of dissonance is to weld a group of dissonant sounds together so that they form a consonant whole that is nevertheless invigorating, lively. "The (consonant) Gestalt is greater than the sum of its (dissonant) parts," so to speak.
In the world of painting, a way to tell the difference between real "modern art" and the fake stuff is to see whether the disparate pictorial dissonances come together to form a higher Gestalt with a form of consonance sometimes called id.
Some listeners hear only the dissonance in metal. Others hear the higher Gestalt as well.
Here in the Fallen World, we tend to experience a chaos of dissonances. But in Paradise perhaps all those dissonances will come together as something higher: grace, beauty and love.
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