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Poll Question: Are we impressed?
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Points: 721 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 19 2005 at 16:22
Originally posted by Ipacial Section Ipacial Section wrote:

You are one of the few people who like them for that reason.

Actually, no he's not. I don't know anybody (myself included) who doesn't like them for that reason. There's no way most people like TMV just because they use odd time signatures. That's ridiculous.
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Points: 124 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 19 2005 at 16:25

Sorry, let me finish the sentence: You are one of the few people who like them for that reason. Because there are only a few people that actually like them, full stop.
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Points: 721 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 19 2005 at 16:28
That would be funny if it made sense, but they're probably the most popular modern prog band at the moment, so I refuse to laugh .

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Modern Prog is about as popular with the masses as Hitler was at the Berlin Synagogues of 1936.

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Points: 264 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 24 2005 at 17:11
Indifferent. I like odd/strange/comlex time signatures and I love trying to understand what is time signature of a song is but that doesnt make a song good or bad, so it does not impress me...
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Points: 7559 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 24 2005 at 17:41

Totally indifferent - it doesn't impress me one iota.

It depends on the piece of music - if the piece demands it, then sig. away.

I've written pieces that would be impossible to squeeze into either a common or even a single time signature, because the music simply didn't flow that way.

And since I studied Stravinsky's "Rite of Spring", the word "complex" when applied to time signatures has become meaningless. That piece is the great-grand daddy of all complex time signatures and signature changes.
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Points: 232 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 27 2005 at 18:20
Cert1fied - have you heard Stockhausen's "Gruppen"?
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Points: 1485 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 27 2005 at 18:36
Originally posted by Ipacial Section Ipacial Section wrote:

Modern Prog is about as popular with the masses
as Hitler was at the Berlin Synagogues of 1936.


Actually Frances the Mute debuted at number 4 on the US billboard charts.
Pretty impressive for a great modern prog band that's trying something new
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complex time signatures where all the instruments are in that signature isnt really much more interesting than 4/4, but when youve got polyrythm, then things get more interesting. it seems to make the possiblities of interpretation greater and longer lasting, and it sounds a lot fresher. just like polytonal stuff is like, infinately more interesting than stuff that..isnt polytonal.

for me, it just comes down to interest. if i see 2 different instruments that are interweaving with each other, and going up and down and revolving at different times, i just dig it a lot more, personally.


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