>>786I couldn't listen to more than a few seconds of that garbage. You can tell just how much Australoid genetic drift has seeped into the Indonesian (who are, btw, a near-genetically indistinct group to the Malays) by just how jarring and disjointed it sounds.
You're alright, don't worry, that was a perfectly good judgement call to make on their music.
>>787I have maintained that modern music is the product of algorythmic permutation of musical notation based on that sound's popularity (they've a database containing every popular song ever created and study sample data showing how long people actually listen to each part of the song, which is used to patch together new songs by Redstone's musical media) which creates music of completely homogenized, average sounding qualities of intensity, rythm, tempo and notational complexity that have no distinguishale characteristics carried through it via. folk traditions.
Religious and ritual music do not follow the same process of computerized systematization. I know Grandin, traitor to the spectrum that she is, had let her mother write that disgusting article comparing autistic systematization to computerized systematization. I would, however, classify the structure of folk as being the product of the former (intellectual autism as has evolved with the human race's migration northwards). Repeated phrases are common (more due to thematic consistency than outright creative mediocrity), but all subtly permutated throughout the piece, which is key to the skeleton of a folk song's aesthetic sensibility. You don't actually find that in a lot of home-grown African music,
but it still sounds a hell of a load more ingenuous than these Gangnam-synthesized bars.So therein lies the difference between those emotions stirred by rap and incanted by chants; my verb choice was deliberate here, rap was concocted by Black Trotskyists in the 60s solely for the purpose of eliciting your sympathy, it's a music of a psychopath's empathy; it demands of you without imparting anything in return but absolute surrender of your own faith and pride to the pity party of their sorrow. Chants had developed over 1,000s of years of the refined development of musical theory which had mostly been influenced as a result of the religious introspection, and subsequent spiritual guidance resiulting from that.
A lot of time was invested into determining which kinds of phrases, notations (often repeated to show holy reverance like in Tibetan chants and ancient Korean ones too), and styles were conducive to incanting a greater sense of spiritual enlightenment which had been the trending direction of Buddhist religious orthodoxy since its foundation; I can't be sure of how the other religions followed suit (enlightenment wasn't exactly emphasized by Christians until the reformation), but I can also deduce that if these cues were found by Eurasians then they must've only
evolved in Eurasians. I've made Blacks listen to the music I'm into, they just aren't aroused in the same way.