Wednesday, November 18, 2009

Your Daily Mindfuck

First, via Timo Andres, Pitchfork follows up on this craziness (Fiery Furnaces guy mixes up Harry Partch, microtonal composer, with Harry Patch, the WWI vet the Radiohead song is about) with the even more bizarre announcement,
Friedberger tried to cover his fuck up with a statement that said: "Matt has not heard the Radiohead song about Harry Patch, but if he did, he is sure he wouldn't like it. No doubt Radiohead and their fans can ignore his opinion of this matter and continue with their triumphant artistic interventions. Matt would have much preferred to insult Beck but he is too afraid of Scientologists."

Now, Beck actually seems to be responding. He's putting up a new song called "Harry Partch" on Beck.com later today. According to a post on the site, the track "employs Partch's 43 tone scale, which expands conventional tonality into a broader variation of frequencies and resonances." It isn't clear yet if the song is directly related to Friedberger's remarks, or just one hell of a coincidence.
I have no idea whether this is even true, or Beck is just screwing with us now. Andres: "My head a splode."

UPDATE: It is true. The song is up on Beck's website.

CODA. I scrolled down that Pitchfork page, and there was a video of Renee Fleming singing "Perfect Day" with Lou Reed on Czech TV, as if to remind us, lest we forget, that Sting does not have a monopoly on Tragicomic Crossover Nightmares. A perfect day, indeed.

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4 Comments:

Blogger Grrg said...

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November 18, 2009 at 8:48 PM  
Blogger Grrg said...

That video makes me want to SPREAD MY WI-I-I-I-I-INGS!!! &c.

November 18, 2009 at 8:53 PM  
Blogger Grrg said...

Dammit the link is dead. Just imagine that crime-against-humanity "I Could Have Danced All Night" thing. You know the one.

November 18, 2009 at 8:56 PM  
Blogger ted said...

you think THAT performance of "Perfect Day" is weird? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kXgbN81zNG8. Warhol wept.

November 19, 2009 at 4:00 PM  

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