Posts

Posts uit november, 2015 tonen
Afbeelding
In which I talk, like a real Patrick Bateman, about a favorite 80s synth track, today: A-ha - Stay on These Roads So that one hunky guy totally makes the wrong moves on the keyboard. He hammers chords, where we hear a baseline: single notes. I wonder whether it's smart dig at A-ha's criticasters that say they're no more than a hunky boyband. Because they're not. Or they totally are, just not *merely* that. A-ha took a huge risk moving from Norway to the UK to pursue their music career (I read that one time but I can't seem to verify it now on wiki). They founded themselves and weren't formed by a producer looking to make money. They wrote their own music. That's the history. But you can just hear it in this in this track. It sounds fully grown-up. I actually don't know what the lyrics are about, but it's obviously not about, for instance, puppy love. Just the the title carries gravitas: "Stay on These Roads". So what else shou...

Kopyright Liberation Front

My whole life has been a lie. I just found out my favorite loop in dance, the one that started my love for the genre, is heavily inspired by another track. Compare  KLF- What Time Is Love  ( pure trance version ) with  Anne Clark - Our Darkness . Of course KLF (Kopyright Liberation Front) will say the only lie is copyright.

Lineair of hiërarchisch schrijven?

Tijd is lineair, schrijven is lineair: in hoeverre kunnen teksten lineair zijn? Een tekst bouw je, tijdens het schrijven,  lineair of hiërarchisch op (zeg ik nu, hier is vast echte studie naar verricht). Het volgende viel me eens op: na een tekst lineair geschreven te hebben, probeerde ik hem meer hiërarchisch te ordenen, daar werd hij echter toch niet veel leesbaarder van, integendeel. Blijkbaar denk je behoorlijk lineair, en toch niet zo hiërarchisch, concludeerde ik daaruit.
Mijn beste Facebookposts bewaar ik ook op deze blog. De volgende post is echt héél goed, maar dien je óp Facebook te lezen:  https://www.facebook.com/martijn.schackmann/posts/1060629290633959 .