Filed under: media, music, thesis | Tags: consonance, consonants, dissonance, language, music, waveform, wildstyle
I am going to start posting some things from my thesis as I attempt to work them out. Sometimes these ideas will be more complete than others. This one, for instance, is the beginning of an idea but could possibly be interesting to others. I have the aim of taking this further and using consonance and dissonance as organizing principles for other sorts of realms: linguistic, political, social, etc. etc. I’m just trying to bang out some relations here, as it stands.
[[[Consonan(ts/ce)]]]
While a vowel sound is formed in the larynx, and only receives its special quality by the conformation of the oral cavity through which it is sounded, a consonant sound is wholly or mainly produced in the mouth, or the mouth and nose. Vowels thus consist of pure voice or musical sound; consonants are either simple noises or noises combined in various degrees with voice. But a noise may itself be of a continuous and rhythmical character, as a (more…)
Proposal: Indie-rock musicians, the new rockstars, are being paid for putting their music into commercials not only monetarily, but also in units of irony. Following “The New Slang” being used in a McD’s commercial (graciously pointed out to me by Ben Segal), we now have m83 in a car commercial.
m83 – Don’t Save Us from the Flames (Pontiac Commercial?)
This leads me to believe that the ad agency handling Pontiac’s ads have a better sense of humor than one could have expected. Or, Pontiac themselves have a better sense of humor. Either way, someone has a sense of humor, and m83 is most certainly in on the joke: “Yes, I’m selling my music for a commercial, but I’m also subtly undermining the commercial. Or making cars seem cooler by allowing a song about melting wheels and brains in your hair into a car commercial. Either way, I am being quite clever.”
There is some sort of subtle and only partially apparent machine at work here.
Lastly: the video for the m83 song is incredibly charming. In a noteworthy turn, it features a bicycle.
