When does pretentiousness go beyond satire?
Posted by: Ebor on 19 May 2016
I reckon some point before you get to this stage:
See how long you have to explore before you find something so ludicrous it makes your jaw drop just before you fall off your chair laughing. As it currently appears, try scrolling down to the review for Continuum, where you'll find this, among much else in a similar vein:
'On Continuum, Bärtsch has hit upon a golden message, one that gathers fruits of experience and squeezes from them a juice of asymptotic parable... Movement is, in fact, the cerebral cortex of “Modul 29_14,” by which thoughts translate into immediate action. It is the full plunge of the bandleader’s groove aesthetic, more patient than ever in its sequencing. The binary relationship between Rast and Stocker unpacks microscopic bits of code into full-blown programs. High notes in the glockenspiel, doubling those of the keyboard, activate those programs.'
Someone's either using some very serious chemicals or hasn't ever seen Pseud's Corner in Private Eye. The only other option is that it's all an elaborate hoax, rather like the Postmodernism Generator (worth a Google if you haven't come across it before).
Mark
Tyran Grillo posted:Jan-Erik Nordoen posted:I'm trying to reverse engineer the term 'aqua-dynamic contours' in your review
Hi, Jan-Erik! It's just the water equivalent of aerodynamic. Rather than follow the convention of describing such beautiful music as "soaring" or some such metaphor involving flying, I imagined it being closer to earth and aquatic in nature
"Lotic" springs to mind, but probably doesn't gain much for reader accessibility. Although you might want to keep that one in your back pocket for a future review of Handel's Water Music 