Interpretations:Grassroots Internet Revolution

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a simple song for a simple piece

most of Karl Haendel's pieces in McSweeney's Issue 6 (photographs of a van, with a sign showing the title of the piece) have a fair amount of elements in scene to examine while listening to the corresponding song - some of the songs prompted me to take a closer look at the corresponding piece than i might've otherwise while waiting for it to end (particularly Be Kind And Gentle [When You Have A Big Stick]).

Grassroots Internet Revolution i find to be the simplest piece visually: the van is on some farmland next to a tractor; there's the shadow of a utility pole in front of the tractor and a concrete road in the background. the exceptionally short duration of this song seems to say "yep, that's all there is. alright, get a move on."

[bonus section: the intro of the book explicitly mentions how the length of the tracks are meant to correspond with the time taken to view the pieces, except when they don't. "As often as possible, the music providers have sought to compose music of a length commensurate with that required to read the Piece. For example, if a Reader needs 35 seconds to read about the undersea explorers, the musical accompaniment for that piece will be 35 seconds long. However, having the music correspond precisely was not always possible, due to the presence of large dogs who attacked some power lines. (See D.Y.M., Frazier, c. 1986). It was weird." indeed, the first actual piece, (Notes from the Middle World), has 11 pages and a 17-second track to loop several dozen times while reading it. also, the piece about "the undersea explorers" has a 56-second track, so evidently it was determined to take more than 35 seconds to read, unless that was the giant dogs again. i'm not sure what i wanted to say here.] Ncrecc (talk) 01:36, 23 January 2025 (EST)