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toast_guru in tf_bunny_farm

Bippity Boppity Bunny!

Jul 12, 2009 18:43

Observations and a Bunny!

I am very interested in contrasting humans to transformers in various ways and finding the small similarities. So I tend to think about things in more of a real world sense I suppose. I’ve read fanfics that address the subject of music in relation to Cybertron and something always bugged me about it....

( In which Lindsay examins Cybertronian music! )

human, music, g1, au, ark, autobot, earth, cybertron, jazz

Comments 7

katsuko July 13 2009, 00:13:20 UTC

Interesting. I could see that happening.

Oddly enough, I can also see the only variety of human music that Decepticons express any matter of interest in would be either incredibly complicated classical pieces ("The Devil's Trill" would probably be a favourite) or murder ballads (which, honestly, intrigue me. My favourtie modern murder ballad is "Where the Wild Roses Grow" by Nick Cave and Kylie Minogue").

anonymous July 13 2009, 00:28:37 UTC

Math actually is very much a part of both melody and harmonics. It's probably easy for most people to forget, but - yeah. Basically what you described as Cybertronian music, the *way* you described it, absolutely holds true of human music IRL.

toast_guru July 13 2009, 00:57:41 UTC

I know that, but what we place value in tends to be the sound rather then the structure, if that makes sense.

anonymous July 13 2009, 05:16:06 UTC

It's because of the structure that the sound appeals to us, though. People have noted this for thousands of years.

The human mind, while a person is listening to music, is busy analyzing the mathematics of the piece on a subconscious level. We are subconsciously aware of the complexity of the music we listen to. There are similar things going on when we look at visual art - it's all about ratio (not all about ratio, but you know what I mean).

... I'll just shut up, though. I like to go on and on about things like this too much.

sorry for my rambling. ditzymusiclover July 14 2009, 18:19:21 UTC

dude, I totally agree with you. I was driving the other day with the window rolled down, and rested my arm on the door, and almost immediately stuck my fingertips in the groove where the window slips in. The music was literally vibrating the car... and then I became jealous of Jazz. He not only hears the music, but he can feel it flowing through his body when it plays.

And maybe not in the mathmatical sense, but I am conscious of the complexity of music. I don't listen to just the top layer, like most do. I take my ears and dig through the song, listening to all the notes, beats, rhythms, harmonies, insturments, etc. The more complex, the better.

I think the music industry around the turn of the century became too competetive and the music from the newer singers lost a lot of the artistic value to it. I have noticed that it is recovering now, but I still stand by my opinion (and it's just an opinion, nothing more): The 80's had the worst fashion, but the best music.

conure_herder July 13 2009, 02:46:14 UTC

OOh... also they have different senses so they'd probably use more than their ears. While all humans would hear would be static or perhaps squealing, TFs would be stimulated by their electromagnetic sensors, etc.

Fascinating! I know how ya feel about the contrasts of TF culture with Humans ^.^ . And why Jazz would love it.

ditzymusiclover July 14 2009, 18:02:18 UTC

your theory is logically sound. I love it. And I would so write it if I could wrap my brain around it. I mean, you gave a good back-story-reason, and a good plot, but I'd just need to figure out exactly how to weave in the musical aspect.

I'm not saying I'm adopting the bunny, but my mind has a habit of surprising me. No commitments on yes or no.