Status Updates From Serious Music

omg. i had to write my senior paper on this guy and i fucking hate his music lmao. TRAUMA

"Flatted fifths and flatted sevenths are wet with the spray of the Atlantic; dissonance is the crux, the essence of our musical grammar, and that grammar the reflection of our history. We don't resolve to the tonic but to the minor sixth, and nothing scares them so much as this. We do not, will not, fear an augmented fourth." 🔥

The first two pages of this book were some of the best I read all year. Worth reading for that alone.

there is certainly nothing comical about this yet let me tell you that (but it’s very good from literally page 1 no surprise)