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This sounds to me like the "uncanny valley" of music. It's close to being pleasant, but it's very discordant and hard to listen to…
by JamilD 10y ago
This sounds to me like the "uncanny valley" of music. It's close to being pleasant, but it's very discordant and hard to listen to…
- Moshe_Silnorin 10y agoThat's jazz for you.
- erikpukinskis 10y agoNot really.
- dbcurtis 10y agoI think he is confusing jazz with Bartok.
- erikpukinskis 10y agoGod I love Bartok. When I played piano in high school I basically only played Bartok and Brubek. I think people find unfamiliar music difficult to listen to. I don't think it's really about genre or artist. I suppose some genres are trying to be difficult on some level (rock and roll, punk, metal, and rap each took up that mantle) but all of those were meant to be easy to listen to for a target audience. Bartok never struck me as super combative. Brainy, perhaps.
- dbcurtis 10y agoYes, I agree with you about people not liking the unfamiliar. My comment was tongue-in-cheek. Though, you must admit, badly played Bartok is gruesome. My daughter plays violin, and discovered his 44 violin duets and also the Hungarian Dances suite. Luckily she is good enough that it is fun to listen to. But my standard joke is: "All teenagers seek out music that will drive their parents crazy. Mine found Bartok."
- erikpukinskis 10y agoTruth. The combo of amateur violin and Bartok must be another level of torture.
- coldtea 10y agoThere's jazz which is more "non pleasant" than anything Bartok did.
- coldtea 10y ago>It's close to being pleasant, but it's very discordant and hard to listen to… You've probably never listened to free jazz (or 100 other genres besides)...