Disco Infernal

Once the synthesizer was brought into existence through the Moog devices, experimentation in music exploded, leading to thousands of experiments in music and sound. One such result was disco. Not only a pioneering land-mark of the colorful and creative applications of fashion and hair conditioning, the sound became very distinct. A twangy guitar, dancing bassline, and the occasional violin characterized the movement. Giorgio Moroder was the first to dabble in these new noises, and not long after, nightclubs and bands and even a movie starring the unique, new musical movement began to appear.

But it quickly, all at once, died away with a violent backlash. What could have caused disco, which started as a fun-loving, intense, colorful era of music, to become one of the most despised, hated, oppressed musical movements of all time?

The pressure outside of disco is greater than the atmospheric pressure inside of disco, causing a rapid movement by molecules in the air in the exo-disco area into the disco

As any interesting noise pattern, sound, or creativity, everyone with a microphone and a recording label will soon overdo, overkill, and overuse it. Songs would include a little violin, and people would go "Oh, that's gotta be disco!" The genre became everything, and it was kind of annoying to people.

Not to mention, disco clubs were popular with the crowd of non-traditional sexuality. Occurring soon around the AIDS crisis, which is renown for killing thousands and thousands of homosexuals (not exclusively, but most notably), anti-gay tensions were growing. And so, the anti-disco movement was fueled in part by tension from opposing views of more personal things, as well as the fact that garbage like "Disco Duck" was being fired into the ears of the innocent.

"Kill me" -Disco Duck

But thank goodness for the death of disco, because without it, we wouldn't have house music, where Disk Jockeys would mix the good parts of disco and rock music at clubs, live. And from that, stems nearly every pop song now.

An article explained how annoying disco once became. It pointed out that, like nowadays, a certain noise or beat will be absurdly over-incorporated into songs to the point that the music being produced loses artistic value, and just becomes a noise that was once interesting, put on a 3-minute loop.

And the same thing is going on today, and it really pushes my buttons. Like dubstep and most pop songs, a little "bassy" wubbywub or grinding noise will be inserted into a song. But it isn't there because it enhances the song, it's there because someone said "Oh, when I drop a toaster and play it in slow motion, it makes a funny noise. Everyone is doing it! Let's stick it everywhere!"

-insert noise of king bass falling onto the face of the earth at the press of a button-

If a similar thing isn't happening right now, it's coming. Just you wait, America.

Just you wait.

I Xerox'd myself in the name of art.

Making cutouts of my body parts, fetched from a scanner and hit gluing them to a homemade book cover created this. I wanted to show how people are a part of their writing and reading, and in the middle of creating or indulging in a book or electronic wordspace, it occupies us as we occupy it and we become a symbiotic entity.

The hot glue strings and lines at first were messy and unappealing to me, but the more I looked at them, the more I like them. They look like hollow hairs and pulsing veins, further convincing me of the illusion that our works are "alive" beings, interracting in a very real way with us.

Archetypes

People like to classify people and personalities as "archetypes", or "dominant psychological traits", such as with personality tests, zodiac signs, horoscopes, "dog people" and "cat people", Apple and Microsoft, etc. However, archetypes tend to be more innocent in nature than outright saying "You're white, go away." Instead of labeling people, which is "bad", intended to separate people, archetypes are more focused on identifying people in an effort to better understand them.

Take for example, the Myers Briggs test, an imperfect description of archetypes. The test breaks up most personalities into 16 combinations of introversion and extroversion, knowing and sensing, thinking and feeling, judging and perceiving. It isn't made to cause people to say "Oh, ew, you're a ____", but rather to help people identify how best to relate to people, labeling people based on a symbol that typically embodies an exaggeration or pure form of someone's personality. A lawful, logical person, for example, is a "judge". An avid learner and creator is an "engineer", and a thieving, lying person is a "senator". That was technically a stereotype, my bad.

I, personally, like archetypes. i think there's something important in recognizing differences and trying best to create coordination in people groups, taking into account the differences of how people operate. "It takes all kinds of people", they say, and... 

Tangential rant, I hate when people take the definition and identification of race, gender, skills, and differences in general as something that is always negative because "labels are bad and do nothing but destroy humanity all the time without exceptions". I find that labels are a tool, and when utilized, create a more cognitive environment. I mean, I get when people want to try to treat everyone equality, but... Doctors don't prescribe the same medicine to every patient. Food stores don't throw everything on one shelf, uncategorically. And we don't all dress the same. We wouldn't normally ask a music teacher to build us bridges, and we don't go to Disney World for gasoline to fill our vehicles. Things are different, and if (I say "if" because it'll never happen) we learn that our differences are beneficial to the community, then we will achieve a peace that is not possible to acquire if we just ignored our differences. I'm good at math, and someone else is good at writing, so obviously, someone who wants help in writing wouldn't come to me. That's ineffective and impractical. People are different for a reason, we have different heritages to give us a space that is uniquely and comfortably our own, and people are different for the good of others.

Anywho, archetypes help us better understand how to relate to eachother. I won't ask an introvert to help me give a presentation because they are truly, truly, inconfident and uncomfortable in those situations. It's nice to be able to find other people that are genuinely like me and relate to them, and archetypes help me do that.

I remember a video game I loved to play, Spore. In that game, you evolved from a cell, to an animal, to a tribe, to a civilization, to a space-faring super-race. The decisions on how you interract with other cells, packs of animals, tribes and cities throughout the game will give you an "Archetype", giving you certain bonuses and dialogue options for your race and character. Certain archetypes get along better with other ones, and lots of archetypes are distrusted. For example, a race that blows up planets and turns air into lava isn't really "best friend" material.

I'm not sure how this relates, but... Spore.