The Awful Truth

You really want to know what I've been up to for the last few months? Most recently I sat through an entire half hour of this crap for work (my girls were so good). It's called Experimental Music. It's weird, creepy, sounds like a horror movie and creepiest when being played and paired with a dramatic interpretation of some crazy poem. It was all I could do not to laugh out loud and even then a few not so lady like snorts escaped. Here's a tip - let the video load and then cue it up somewhere in the middle. It will make it less likely that you will have to kill yourself after hearing it. First it was a fifteen minute solo of this guy (Malcom Goldstein) and then some BYU people joined in the chaos. Things I saw that were experimental:

1. guitar being strummed with an envelope
2. violin being played with one of those clear projector plastic page things
3. a golf ball being rolled around in a glass jar on the floor
4. someone laying (lying?) in a piano to pluck the strings
5. the bow of a violin being scraped on the music stand
6. a tuba that would play a really loud note every now and then just to scare me
7. general spastic movements (I like to call them seizures) while playing an instrument
8. sheet music with big blobs and shapes on them instead of notes.

Thank you mindless job, thank you.


Here's some sheet music:






And this too!