the time machine (midi piano mix)

this is the next 2001 period piece i'll be working on. my memory is blurry; yet, i have a vivid recollection of playing parts of it for my guitar teacher on a sunny day, where there was still snow on the ground.

it's funny how we remember seemingly irrelevant details, but i guess the atmosphere of the performance is important because the performance is. that would date it to roughly march, 2001.

i switched the piece from classical guitar to piano halfway through writing it, and vaguely remember thinking that an impossible interval had something to do with it. yet, that doesn't change the fact that it's guitar music. the counterpoint is very guitar.

i'll have to analyse the score and determine whether it's actually playable or not, or if i can get it close enough. but this one is an open palette right now in the sense that it needs to be filled out, so the early instrumentation choices are really just a suggestion.

one possible idea is that i may split it into a guitar piece to start and a piano piece to finish. i'm thinking of adding sequenced drums and a more defined, squelchy bass part.

written in early 2001. rendered june 9, 2014.

the issue of the origins of fascism comes up so often. there's ad hoc and clinical answers. it generally goes through mussolini to some kind of guild organization. a lot of demagogues will try and twist hitler around as some kind of union representative, but people that know what they're talking about understand that he was a tool of industry and the system was designed to co-opt the unions away from socialism and towards nationalism rather than actually represent them (that is, "national socialist" is a sort of orwellian oxymoron, that tried to redefine socialism as everything it wasn't). somebody might say something about hobbes in passing....

in fact, hobbes is describing it just about perfectly in chapter 22 of leviathan, which was 1652, in precisely the terms mussolini would use - it's about society being organized into "corps", this whole materialist conception of a mechanical, working whole.

and yet hobbes is usually thought of as the first liberal. what nonsense. he's explicitly rejecting all individual rights (except the right to self-defense) and going out of his way to invest all property in the hands of the sovereign, thereby negating anything resembling property rights (although he seems to expect that use rights should be made clear to prevent squabbling). he strikes me as a massive influence on marx.

but his system is really, truly straight-up fascism. word for word.

i thought vader lost the election and was denied the right to vote....?

i'm worried about this poroshenko guy. check him using the force on that guard in the beginning.