Twelve Tones – YouTube
This video is ostensibly about twelve-tone composition techniques–but do not let a disinterest in “experimental” music cause you to miss out.
First off, the music Vi tosses off to illustrate her points is so hauntingly beautiful it’s just about crippling. This arrangement of “Mary Had a Little Lamb” (explored at length around the 21min mark) is so beautiful it makes me ache. I love it, without irony or snark. I just *love* it, love how the sound of the 12-tone recombination has guided the dark and tortuous new text.
But, although that’s the focus of the video, this talk (recitation? recital? lecture? demo? “vlog”?) is really about creativity and the rudimentary mechanics of artistic craft (both for the nominal creator and nominal audience), as well as the concreteness of artistic “abstraction” and the fucktardity of current US copyright law[*].
This video is incredible and wonderful; it’s worth your 30-minutes, especially if you aspire to *any* creative endeavor.
*thx for the tip @logista!*
[*] FYI, EU law is, in many respects, even stupider. *Ugh.*