[microsound] Re:[microsound] soundtrack to virtual destruction

[peter price <pprice@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Well...the stereotypical piece would have been Beethoven's 9th not  
the 5th...which brings up for me the unexamined assumptions here  
about the relationship for us of destruction and beauty...isn't it  
that we find destruction beautiful because it IS destruction and what  
we long for above all is apocalyptic annihilation?
On Feb 11, 2008, at 1:02 PM, Kim Cascone wrote:

> <http://www.wired.com/gaming/gamingreviews/commentary/games/2008/02/ 
> gamesfrontiers_0211>
>
> http://tinyurl.com/3ahf77
>
>
> I think the author reaches for the easy but tired trope of  
> 'classical music underscoring violence' which is borrowed from  
> cheesy Hollywood movies
> i.e. teasing out the 'elegance' in destruction by musically evoking  
> a ballet-like grace, usually accomplished by slowing down the motion
> what would be a better choice of a soundtrack to virtual destruction?
> other ideas?


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