The People's Choice Music
http://www.ubu.com/sound/komar.html
I like rap, and country (especially the Golden Age), orchestral music, Scottish bagpipe music, ambient... in other words, the most despised genres of music. (Okay, not Christian contemporary.) I know this about myself. So qwantz, that guy who writes Dinosaur Comics, posted a link to this on his blog, which he got from the "Cat and Girl" writer.
The People's Choice Music is a project of Komar and Melamid & Dave Soldier. They surveyed people on what kind of music they like and don't like, and then composed two songs: The Most Wanted Song and The Most Unwanted Song. I'm listening to the latter first. (I am so contrary.)
The most unwanted music is over 25 minutes long, veers wildly between loud and quiet sections, between fast and slow tempos, and features timbres of extremely high and low pitch, with each dichotomy presented in abrupt transition. The most unwanted orchestra was determined to be large, and features the accordion and bagpipe (which tie at 13% as the most unwanted instrument), banjo, flute, tuba, harp, organ, synthesizer (the only instrument that appears in both the most wanted and most unwanted ensembles). An operatic soprano raps and sings atonal music, advertising jingles, political slogans, and "elevator" music, and a children's choir sings jingles and holiday songs. The most unwanted subjects for lyrics are cowboys and holidays, and the most unwanted listening circumstances are involuntary exposure to commercials and elevator music. Therefore, it can be shown that if there is no covariance-someone who dislikes bagpipes is as likely to hate elevator music as someone who despises the organ, for example-fewer than 200 individuals of the world's total population would enjoy this piece.
Count me and qwantz among the two hundred. YES PLEASE!
Edited: qwantz, not quantz. Sorry!
I like rap, and country (especially the Golden Age), orchestral music, Scottish bagpipe music, ambient... in other words, the most despised genres of music. (Okay, not Christian contemporary.) I know this about myself. So qwantz, that guy who writes Dinosaur Comics, posted a link to this on his blog, which he got from the "Cat and Girl" writer.
The People's Choice Music is a project of Komar and Melamid & Dave Soldier. They surveyed people on what kind of music they like and don't like, and then composed two songs: The Most Wanted Song and The Most Unwanted Song. I'm listening to the latter first. (I am so contrary.)
The most unwanted music is over 25 minutes long, veers wildly between loud and quiet sections, between fast and slow tempos, and features timbres of extremely high and low pitch, with each dichotomy presented in abrupt transition. The most unwanted orchestra was determined to be large, and features the accordion and bagpipe (which tie at 13% as the most unwanted instrument), banjo, flute, tuba, harp, organ, synthesizer (the only instrument that appears in both the most wanted and most unwanted ensembles). An operatic soprano raps and sings atonal music, advertising jingles, political slogans, and "elevator" music, and a children's choir sings jingles and holiday songs. The most unwanted subjects for lyrics are cowboys and holidays, and the most unwanted listening circumstances are involuntary exposure to commercials and elevator music. Therefore, it can be shown that if there is no covariance-someone who dislikes bagpipes is as likely to hate elevator music as someone who despises the organ, for example-fewer than 200 individuals of the world's total population would enjoy this piece.
Count me and qwantz among the two hundred. YES PLEASE!
Edited: qwantz, not quantz. Sorry!