Episode 27: Weird Music, Part One

Weird Studies

Phil Ford and J. F. Martel

Society & Culture, Arts, Philosophy

4.8 • 688 Ratings

🗓️ 26 September 2018

⏱️ 78 minutes

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Summary

In this first of two episodes devoted to the music of the weird, Phil and JF discuss two works that have bowled them over: the second movement of Ligeti's Musica Ricercata, used to powerful effect in Stanley Kubrick's Eyes Wide Shut, and the opening music to Cronenberg's film Naked Lunch, composed by Howard Shore and featuring the inimitable stylings of Ornette Coleman. After teasing out the intrinsic weirdness of music in general, the dialogue soars over a strange country rife with shadows, mad geniuses, and skittering insects. And to top it all off, Phil breaks out the grand piano. Header image by Bandan, Wikimedia Commons REFERENCES Ligeti, Musica Ricercata, 2nd movement Howard Shore and Ornette Coleman, opening music for David Cronenberg's Naked Lunch Schopenhauer, The World as Will and Representation Suzanne Langer, Philosophy in a New Key Henri Bergson, Creative Evolution Stanley Kubrick, 2001: A Space Odyssey Viktor Shklovsky, "Art as Technique" Stanley Kubrick, Eyes Wide Shut Hitchcock, Psycho Vulture, "The Evolution of the Movie Trailer" by Granger Willson Official Trailer for The Shining_vs teaser for _2012 Jan Harlan (director), Stanley Kubrick: A Life in Pictures David Cronenberg, Crash William S. Burroughs, Naked Lunch Gilles Deleuze & Félix Guattari, A Thousand Plateaus Gunther Schuller's interview with Ethan Iverson Weird Studies, Episode 25: David Cronenberg's Naked Lunch Deleuze & Guattari, Anti-Oedipus Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Specter Vision Radio
0:03.3	Welcome to Weird Studies, an art and philosophy podcast with hosts Phil Ford and J.F. Martel.
0:21.8	For more episodes and to support the podcast, go to Weird Studies.com. Kind of funny that we've made it to the mid-20s without actually tackling the art form of music, which isn't to say that we haven't
0:55.9	talked about music before. I think there was some, I talked at least a little bit about the music
1:01.2	in the film Stalker. But yeah, why have we waited this long? Especially odd since I'm actually
1:08.5	employed as a person who talks about music.
1:11.9	That's like my job.
1:13.2	I don't know.
1:13.8	I think it's hard to talk about music.
1:15.2	At least I've found it hard to talk about music.
1:17.4	I wrote a book on art, and I hardly...
1:19.5	I mean, there are few little references to music in it.
1:22.4	But they're almost kind of like just...
1:25.0	What's the expression I'm looking for?
1:26.9	Yeah, they're kind of throw away remarks, but like it's not as if the arguments depend upon the particular qualities of music.
1:34.3	There are philosophers actually whose thinking is heavily influenced by music as such.
1:41.3	Schopenhauer is probably the most obvious example.
1:45.1	Suzanne Langer in our own, well, I should say in the last century, in the 20th century,
1:50.5	philosophy in a new key, the very title of which tells you something about the nature of the
1:56.2	philosophy that's musically influenced.
1:59.3	Berksson was big on music as well.
2:01.1	Oh, is that so?
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