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1998-10-14 05:30Peter HolloWhat's the problem with this title? Doesn't anybody else realise that "Music is One Rotted

From:: Peter Hollo <raven@fourplay.com.au>
To:: <idm@hyperreal.org>
Date:: Wed, 14 Oct 1998 15:30:07 +1000
Subject:: (idm) Music is Rotted One Note

What's the problem with this title? Doesn't anybody else realise that "Music is One Rotted Note" is no more grammatically correct that the other way round: it shouldn't be "Rotted" in that case but "Rotten". And even then, what sort of semantic sense does it make? Why complain? It seems to me that the way it's phrased is deliberately to sound kooky and foreign, and half-correcting the grammar is just missing the point. I'd much rather be told more about what the album's like - all I know is "live instruments" and "weird" really so far... I guess I'll have to give it a listen first when it arrives in Australian shops. Peter. -- Peter Hollo raven@fourplay.com.au http://www.fourplay.com.au/me.html FourPlay - Eclectic Electric String Quartet http://www.fourplay.com.au "Of course, dance music can be a music where you lie on your back and your brain cells dance" -Michael Karoli of Can, quoted in Wire mag.

1998-10-14 13:36Bill VanLooMy first thought was that it was another in the line of weirdy-beardy anagrams (Hangable A

From:: Bill VanLoo <wdvanloo@sigma6.com>
To:: Peter Hollo <raven@fourplay.com.au>
Cc:: <idm@hyperreal.org>
Date:: Wed, 14 Oct 1998 09:36:42 -0400
Subject:: Re: (idm) Music is Rotted One Note

My first thought was that it was another in the line of weirdy-beardy anagrams (Hangable Auto Bulb, Visible Crater Funk or whatever the first plug record was called, etc), but I couldn't get anything out of it. Anybody wanna give it a try? Bill Peter Hollo wrote:

quoted 19 lines What's the problem with this title? Doesn't anybody else realise that

> > What's the problem with this title? Doesn't anybody else realise that > "Music is One Rotted Note" is no more grammatically correct that the > other way round: it shouldn't be "Rotted" in that case but "Rotten". And > even then, what sort of semantic sense does it make? > Why complain? It seems to me that the way it's phrased is deliberately > to sound kooky and foreign, and half-correcting the grammar is just > missing the point. > I'd much rather be told more about what the album's like - all I know is > "live instruments" and "weird" really so far... I guess I'll have to > give it a listen first when it arrives in Australian shops. > > Peter. > -- > Peter Hollo raven@fourplay.com.au http://www.fourplay.com.au/me.html > FourPlay - Eclectic Electric String Quartet > http://www.fourplay.com.au > "Of course, dance music can be a music where you lie on your back and > your brain cells dance" -Michael Karoli of Can, quoted in Wire mag.

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1998-10-14 14:11abenn@dircon.co.uk>My first thought was that it was another in the line of weirdy-beardy anagrams >(Hangable

From:: <abenn@dircon.co.uk>
To:: <idm@hyperreal.org>
Date:: Wed, 14 Oct 1998 15:11:42 +0100 (BST)
Subject:: Re: (idm) Music is Rotted One Note

quoted 20 lines My first thought was that it was another in the line of weirdy-beardy anagrams

>My first thought was that it was another in the line of weirdy-beardy anagrams >(Hangable Auto Bulb, Visible Crater Funk or whatever the first plug record was >called, etc), but I couldn't get anything out of it. > >Anybody wanna give it a try? > >Bill > >Peter Hollo wrote: >> >> What's the problem with this title? Doesn't anybody else realise that >> "Music is One Rotted Note" is no more grammatically correct that the >> other way round: it shouldn't be "Rotted" in that case but "Rotten". And >> even then, what sort of semantic sense does it make? >> Why complain? It seems to me that the way it's phrased is deliberately >> to sound kooky and foreign, and half-correcting the grammar is just >> missing the point. >> I'd much rather be told more about what the album's like - all I know is >> "live instruments" and "weird" really so far... I guess I'll have to >> give it a listen first when it arrives in Australian shops.

Right, straight from the horse's mouth for you all, as Tom explained in the "Mixing It" interview ... Interviewer " Interesting title Tom, 'Music is Rotted One Note" sounds like a Shakespearian quote?" Tom - "What it relates to is a conversation I had with Sean from Autechre (which by the way, he pronounced Au teck er !), where basically I was expressing the fact that I kind of was a really big fan of yoghourt and cheese and stuff but really didn't like milk and Sean made the comparison of music being a "rotted" form of a single tone, or one note as it were ... I like the music but not the one note ... and cheese but not the milk ..." So there you have it folks, the mystery revealed ... and I knew that Tom's a veggie but obviously not a vegan! aless

1998-10-16 00:32Mark Kolmar> Tom - "What it relates to is a conversation I had with Sean from Autechre > (which by th

From:: Mark Kolmar <mkolmar@xnet.com>
To:: <abenn@dircon.co.uk>
Cc:: <idm@hyperreal.org>
Date:: Thu, 15 Oct 1998 19:32:21 -0500 (CDT)
Subject:: Re: (idm) Music is Rotted One Note
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quoted 6 lines Tom - "What it relates to is a conversation I had with Sean from Autechre

> Tom - "What it relates to is a conversation I had with Sean from Autechre > (which by the way, he pronounced Au teck er !), where basically I was > expressing the fact that I kind of was a really big fan of yoghourt and > cheese and stuff but really didn't like milk and Sean made the comparison > of music being a "rotted" form of a single tone, or one note as it were ... > I like the music but not the one note ... and cheese but not the milk ..."

Weird. I guess my interpretation was correct. (See post from several days ago regarding milk->cheese, grapes->wine...) So how does this album compare to _Hard Normal Daddy_, aside from the differences in the way it was recorded? --Mark __ <http://www.xnet.com/~mkolmar/BurningRome> <MPEG 3 & RealAudio tracks> October 19th: SENSELESS CD on Mindfield Records MindCD03 Cathartium 14

1998-10-14 19:10Edward NilgesI think it makes perfect grammatical sense, if you look at "note" as being a unit of measu

From:: Edward Nilges <enilges@earthlink.net>
To:: Peter Hollo <raven@fourplay.com.au>
Cc:: <idm@hyperreal.org>
Date:: Wed, 14 Oct 1998 14:10:43 -0500
Subject:: Re: (idm) Music is Rotted One Note

I think it makes perfect grammatical sense, if you look at "note" as being a unit of measure for the rottenness of music. Like, "Squarepusher drops his latest depraved creation and thus, the institution of popular MUSIC IS ROTTED ONE NOTE." Ed NP: Sqpr/NorthCircular WP: Sterolab/Cybele'sReverieMaxiSingle Peter Hollo wrote:

quoted 18 lines What's the problem with this title? Doesn't anybody else realise that

> What's the problem with this title? Doesn't anybody else realise that > "Music is One Rotted Note" is no more grammatically correct that the > other way round: it shouldn't be "Rotted" in that case but "Rotten". And > even then, what sort of semantic sense does it make? > Why complain? It seems to me that the way it's phrased is deliberately > to sound kooky and foreign, and half-correcting the grammar is just > missing the point. > I'd much rather be told more about what the album's like - all I know is > "live instruments" and "weird" really so far... I guess I'll have to > give it a listen first when it arrives in Australian shops. > > Peter. > -- > Peter Hollo raven@fourplay.com.au http://www.fourplay.com.au/me.html > FourPlay - Eclectic Electric String Quartet > http://www.fourplay.com.au > "Of course, dance music can be a music where you lie on your back and > your brain cells dance" -Michael Karoli of Can, quoted in Wire mag.

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