Saturday, December 03, 2005

Meditation

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Many people (me included) foresaw a revolution in music because of computers. It happened and it didn't happen. But much of it has to do with what I call the "Kazoo problem"

A kazoo is an extremely efficient method of hammering out a melody that sounds like an instrument and not like a human voice. If you have no sense of melody, your kazoo playing reflects this.

The problem is, even if you have a very good sense of melody, it is very difficult to have an objective ear listen to your kazoo playing because they know "hey... that's just a kazoo"

This problem is somewhat exacerbated by all of the truly awful kazoo playing, but I don't think that's fair. I had more to this but
"Too late or still too soon too soon to make lots of bad love and there's no time for sorrow. Run around, run around with a hole in your head 'til tomorrow."
-----They Might Be Giants