Any fellow /mu/tants that are also /lit/izens? What are you reading? I just got myself pic related
>>25590152I've read a few /mu/ books recently;>Playing the Bass with Three Left HandsWill Carruthers, Spacemen 3 bass player.Never really listened to them, picked it up for the hell of it. Would recommend, good portrait of psychedelic slacker in the 80s>I'll Sleep When I'm DeadWarren Zevon biography. Again, don't really listen to Zevon but this was a great biography in the sense that his almost-daily journal entries are sprinkled throughout, so you really get the full picture and not just the author's (ex-wife) perspective>NOFX: The Hepatitis Bathtub NOFX biography. Once more, I don't listen to NOFX. It was decent at the beginning, good view of the early LA punk scene. Quickly turns into your typical "waaah I'm addicted to heroin/alcohol and it's really hard wahhhh" schtick.>Life in the Key of GKenny G autobiography. A nice, light read, just like his music. Also he notes the origins of the "smooth jazz" genre, which has caused many a jazz elitist to HATE Kenny G for no good reason. >My Bass and Other AnimalsGuy Pratt biography, replaced Roger Waters as Pink Floyd's bass player. Ehhhh, there were some funny stories throughout, but it's very British humor which didn't land often for me. Just a collection of anecdotes which often seem exaggerated.>Inside OutNick Mason autobiography, drummer for Pink Floyd. Awful. Insufferably British. Drier than a nun's pussy. Wouldn't recommend unless you're a big Pink Floyd fan, in which case there's a good history of their very early years. Then it's just about his Ferraris and other rich guy shit. >Make It Happen!Jerry Jemmott autobiography, NY studio session bass player. Sweet if you're a bass player, maybe not appealing otherwise. Also the only time I've seen someone be blunt about Jaco's severe alcoholism and poor attitude while still holding a genuinely friendly tone (if you play bass, you know it's nothing but blind worship for Jaco, anything less than praise is considered sin).>My Life With DethDanny Ellefson autobiography, bass player for Megadeth. Very cool if you like Megadeth, a great history of the band, and most importantly not from Mustaine's mouth. >BROTHERSAlex Van Halen autobiography., drummer for Van Halen.Good snapshot of how tight he and Ed were, and also a decent history of the David Lee Roth years. The book doesn't mention Sammy Hagar at all, really just focused on him and his bro making it. I'm missing some, but they probably weren't worth remembering. Still also have a decent to-read stack. Up next is Miles Davis autobiography.
>>25590152I have been toying with the idea of writing a paper on relations between recent philosophy of audition (hearing) and writings on so-called Spectral Music of the 1970s-90s, the last 'movement' in contemporary music.One of the central questions in the former concerns the objects of audition. Just what sort of things do we hear? Do we hear only sounds, as it was thought for the longest time, or do we hear other things too, namely sound sources, as Heidegger, for one, seemed to think? Holding this last requires the attribution of audible qualities to sound sources. Timbral qualities are commonly suggested, or some subset thereof.Spectral composers (notably Tristan Murail and Gerard Grisey), viz., composers working with then-recent developments in digital signal processing, took their musical aims to concern timbral, not pitch, relationships in time--this being their iconoclasm. But they were also-self-confessed aesthetic formalists, holding that the only 'thing' relevant to the aesthetic experience of music is sound: in fact they go further than standard formalists in maintaining that sounds are the only objects of audition tout court, and they take this to be consistent with an emphasis on timbre. This, of course, doesn't sit very well with the recent philosopher of audition.The trouble is that my world does not at all touch the world of serious music. I can evaluate only what they write about themselves, and this stops short of saying anything interesting about the music itself. Cavell is, to my knowledge, the last authoritative philosopher who wrote on contemporaneous music, but he first trained as a composer at Julliard.I wonder if anyone here has an interest in modern music.>inb4 "cool story"
>>25591111Quads means I should do it, I guess.
Music created by a schizophrenic that drowned himself:https://youtube.com/watch?v=8Tttag0f5yU
