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June 12, 2008
The Depravity of Modernity: Rocking Out to Pachelbel
With every passing day I become more convinced that we are in a cultural golden age: more artistic output of higher quality is available to more people at lower prices than ever before. I'm particularly interested in the processes by which knowledge and cultural forms are re-combined to create new cultural output. A friend showed me this video of someone giving a virtuoso performance of Pachelbel's Canon on electric guitar; it has close to 45 million Youtube views. So I ask: is it art? Comments are open.
Posted by Art Carden at 11:25 AM in Culture
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Pachabel is smiling. Who cares if it's art? Posted by: Ray at June 12, 2008 11:37 AMThe NY Times did a story on this a couple years ago. http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/27/arts/television/27heff.html?_r=1&oref=slogin He's got talent. Posted by: William Polley at June 12, 2008 01:12 PMIt's art. So is eScala, a string quartet with electronic instruments. Thoroughly classical and thoroughly modern. See http://www.escalamusic.com/ where there are videos under "media." The first video is Palladio by Karl Jenkins. Posted by: Fred at June 12, 2008 02:13 PMzzzzzzz Reminds me of that crappy old 70s version of Bach's Jesu...or disco Beethoven. Posted by: Douglas Fletcher at June 13, 2008 01:44 AMDamn... that beats my previous favourite interpretation of the piece, for Er-hu and rock band: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-6149504583516696205 Thanks for the comments; I checked out Escala, and they're awesome. This morning, I found MP3s for my friend Taylor Williams's band Poor Yorick. A late-90s fixture at the University of Alabama, they were, among other things, the house band for Guerilla Theater: http://www.torpillage.com/taylor/pooryorick/. Posted by: Art Carden at June 13, 2008 09:12 AMw6wGrh yzmppsgkkdys, [url=http://kaxpkuqtjlcf.com/]kaxpkuqtjlcf[/url], [link=http://jpxcrkepcrbc.com/]jpxcrkepcrbc[/link], http://qijapvdkkdor.com/ Posted by: mygnzwqobb at June 14, 2008 12:27 AM9Ca0EP Go4porn Teens World nude teens video| nude teens video| Free Teens Porn Free Porn 100 Free Porn 100 nude teens video| |
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