Glitchy Glitchy Ya Ya Da Da
June 13, 2022 11:23 AM Subscribe
Dance music these days, I dunno man.
Actually I like it. Listenable? Not really, but that's not what it's about.
posted by Xoebe at 9:24 PM on June 13, 2022
Actually I like it. Listenable? Not really, but that's not what it's about.
posted by Xoebe at 9:24 PM on June 13, 2022
I have a question and I don't mean to denigrate what other people like.
This makes me very uneasy. Is that the point?
Does it not make those who like it feel uneasy, or do they like it because it makes them feel uneasy?
posted by rustybullrake at 8:04 AM on June 14, 2022 [1 favorite]
This makes me very uneasy. Is that the point?
Does it not make those who like it feel uneasy, or do they like it because it makes them feel uneasy?
posted by rustybullrake at 8:04 AM on June 14, 2022 [1 favorite]
A little bit of both, honestly! Like, it's absolutely an acquired taste; I've gotten increasingly interested in weird noisy music over the years, and a bit of that has been getting inured to the sheer visceral abrasiveness of some of the sounds. Without settling in a bit there it'd be a sort of harsh, flinch-making thing to subject myself to. And I like, genuinely like, that it's got strange sharp corners and unsettling contours compared to typically more approachable or mellifluous compositions and timbres.
I don't think it's the same thing as horror movies exactly, but there's a sense there of commonality: I like horror movies partly because horror movies do interesting cinematic things that other movies generally don't, do compositional things and narrative things and just straight up viscerally sensory things that you pretty much have to go to horror movies to get.
And I'd rather listen to some glitchy weird music than e.g. an actual angle grinder for the same reason I'd rather watch a horror movie than documentary autopsy footage: it's not about fetishizing the surface level of uncomfortable sensory data, it's about experiencing a deliberate creative work that uses different raw materials and aesthetics than you get elsewhere.
Basically I partly just enjoy it because it's music: it's doing what music does, puts sounds against time for me to listen to. And partly I enjoy it because it's novel compared to how most music sounds. And partly I enjoy it because it's enjoyable to explore that space of unease, to figure out bit by bit whether I'm uneasy because some element is inherently unsettling, or because its novelty makes it feel unsettling, or because the creator is doing an especially good job of intentionally creating an unsettling feeling.
posted by cortex at 8:41 AM on June 14, 2022 [2 favorites]
I don't think it's the same thing as horror movies exactly, but there's a sense there of commonality: I like horror movies partly because horror movies do interesting cinematic things that other movies generally don't, do compositional things and narrative things and just straight up viscerally sensory things that you pretty much have to go to horror movies to get.
And I'd rather listen to some glitchy weird music than e.g. an actual angle grinder for the same reason I'd rather watch a horror movie than documentary autopsy footage: it's not about fetishizing the surface level of uncomfortable sensory data, it's about experiencing a deliberate creative work that uses different raw materials and aesthetics than you get elsewhere.
Basically I partly just enjoy it because it's music: it's doing what music does, puts sounds against time for me to listen to. And partly I enjoy it because it's novel compared to how most music sounds. And partly I enjoy it because it's enjoyable to explore that space of unease, to figure out bit by bit whether I'm uneasy because some element is inherently unsettling, or because its novelty makes it feel unsettling, or because the creator is doing an especially good job of intentionally creating an unsettling feeling.
posted by cortex at 8:41 AM on June 14, 2022 [2 favorites]
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