What a nice inspiring topic. Thanks for the discussion!

For me, jazz is variation. You take a straight melody, you play it in swing. After some time, you get bored with swing, so you surprise with a few measures of straight notes. One hundredish years ago, people heard popular music and got kind of bored with it, so they played a million variations on it. When Brad Mehldau does it with Radiohead, with melodies his audience already knows, it’s exactly the same thing.

In Belgium, we have this crazy drummer called Lander Gyselinck. He had a ‘classical’ jazz training, but wanted to do something less ‘classical jazz’, so he took hip hop beats, rock elements, crazy synths coming from a digital saxophone and created weird, crazy and wonderful music. This, for me, was the most jazzy thing to do. It’s all about variation. The band is called STUFF. by the way. You won’t regret listening to it.

I have to admit that I got in a theoretical swamp lately. On a certain moment, everything I heard and liked, became jazz in my head. And isn’t variation always the essence of interesting music? Bach and Beethoven did nothing else.

And then, you hear a nice version of ‘Round midnight with it’s syncopated rhythms and changes full of tritone substitions and you think: this really is jazz. So there is a style element that cannot be ignored.

Thanks for sharing! It is the first time I hear about scalding. Very curious to try it out. Your fermenting times are way longer than the recipes I tend to follow, but I’m also getting mixed results with those recipes… Been thinking about prolonging the bulk rise significantly. So thanks for the inspiration.

I would argue that the image does contain two triangles. The artist clearly had two triangles in mind and I perceive two triangles. It is created with some negative space and some ‘gestalt psychology’, but you cannot say that the artist did not create the triangles. Of course, my screen does not contain the lines that form the triangle, but is that the essence of the form? If you see a part of an image of a face, do you say that you see just some lines, or that you see a face?

So for me it is a weak argument against the existence of God. Maybe even counterwise. If our metaphysical puzzle reveals a perfect outline of a God in the middle, I think it’s a good indication of his existence. Probably, at some point in history, it did. But for me, with all the answers we have today, it does not anymore.

Same here, also piano! I improvise a lot, just for fun. I don’t hear this as often from people playing other instruments. Great outlet

New anxiety unlocked:

1. Open Mastodon / Lemmy client
2. Find it eternally spinning
3. Slight panic

First time on Mastodon it turned out to be temporarily, new with vlemmy, I fear for the worst.