Adagio for Drum Machine
One of the most difficult pieces of music to listen to—assuming it’s not atonal or discordant on purpose—is Barber’s Adagio for Strings. If music is the universal language, then it is the definition of catharsis. While painful to listen to—not because it’s badly written, but because it was written about pain—you feel better once it’s done.
Unless, as I discovered recently, it is transformed into a dance remix, played at you while you wait for take-out sushi to be ready.
You know that scene from A Clockwork Orange where the “protagonist” is given nauseating drugs and forced to stare at violent images while they play his favorite piece of music? It was kind of like that.
Go away, dance remixes of master compositions. You cheapen and disgust the world.
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19 October 2006, 09:21
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Barber’s Adagio is one of my favorites! Also happens to be the opening song for the PC game Homeworld.
— Keith 22 October 2006, 14:35 #