Melanie Diehl
(6887890)
Prof. Dr. Bernd
Herzogenrath
Winter
Semester 2022/2023
The Future
of American Music
Listening
Reports - 22.02.2023
John
Oswald – Plexure
Sounds like straight out of a Sci-fi movie
until, that Avantgarde style drop hits, it suddenly shifts and feels like a
mashup of Hip-Hop music, but also like when in a movie someone is being hacked
and the computer is crashing. Like it’s an upbeat music, or like when you’re driving
and changing the radio channels to find a song you want to listen to while
driving. Suddenly, it’s like Whitney Houston is singing, when suddenly you are
still undecisive to what you want to listen to, and I reckon this goes on for
19 minutes. However, suddenly changes again, and I’m sort of loving it, and
hoping for a more rock or metal shift, and suddenly you hear a cry out loud.
This!
Ladies, and gentlemen, is what I consider Avantgarde music in my head. I feel
like this album is not going the direction it is, and that my mind is making me
think it is what I am listening to. That is the effect. Now this song might
give the one or the other -Noooothing comp- okay, we are back. So, where was I?
Sure, this music can give the one or the other a headache, but it kind of has
me going. It is crazy, or maybe my ADHD, but this song truly has the rhythm
that is currently helping me to write this piece. We are 5 minutes into the
song, and it feels like it is slow again, I may lose concentration, but no-
it’s groovy again! This is the effect Oswald got on me.
I
may sound crazy, but I could actually dance on this. I would use this song for
the game ‘dancing chairs’, could be fun! I think what John Oswald was trying to
achieve, back in 1993, was to create this mashup of all kinds of genres, and
make it groovy. I think he succeeded. It feels like they were mixing up
different cultural tones in the song too. Fantastic! My husband is asking me to
turn it off, but I think this is something. I’m a fan. We have such different
tastes as human beings, it’s great. Seeing his reaction and mine, I think this
is an example of how Oswald succeeded. Finally towards a rocky end, and god
that is exactly how I imagined it to come to an end. I absolutely loved it! It
was a pleasure! (Opens Spotify.)
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