I really enjoy when different worlds intersect. I have not yet heard Autechre's Garbage EP, but in Navi's Autechre: The Rough Guide, a track is compared to Barber's Adagio:
The biggest surprise is the final track, "VLetrmx21," a completely drumless piece that resembles nothing so much as an industrial take on Barber's "Adagio for Strings." The instrumentation, which sounds like an orchestra in a wind tunnel, builds and subsides over the course of eight minutes. Like the previous track, "VLetrmx21" doesn't really go anywhere, it just paints a very beautiful but very bleak picture.
Other Adagio posts: dance remix story Sheens web miscellany
Disclaimer: I also enjoyed today's Boondocks comic strip which mentioned the old Bloom Country strip. Shades of when Mad's Alfred E. Neuman appeared as the Great Pumpkin in Peanuts. Seeing that one was a pivotal moment in my life. So, of course, I went to the current Mad Magazine exhibition at the Charles M. Schultz Museum in Santa Rosa. But in spite of a natural disposition towards juxtaposition, I am not much for Charles Ives' use of popular song in his works.
Disclaimer #2: I just read Robert Nagle who raises some relevant questions: should I bleach cultural references?...what killed postmodernism?
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