Singing Theory
What is it about academic theory that begs to be, well, sung by people who can't sing? Our pal Brian J. Davis has provided a punk rock response: An EP of Theodor Adorno's bleak classic Minima Moralia set to thrash-rock. MP3s: The, The People | This Side of the Pleasure Prinsiple | UNmeasure for UNmeasure | Johnn Head In The Air | Every Work of Art is an Uncommitted Crime
Brian's not the first one to tackle this. Finnish eccentric genius M.A.Numminen composed six songs to the book "Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus" by philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein in 1966 (listen to A Proposition Is [MP3]). And these works have alas (sadly for my listeners), spawned my own adventures into the field: Kenny G Sings Wittgenstein (MP3) Part 1 | Part 2. Ouch.
I seem to remember Wittgenstein coming up in both the Most Wanted and Most Unwanted songs by Melamid & Kumar. That's just how far-reaching his appeal is.
Posted by: brian | May 15, 2006 at 04:50 PM
and i just added horkheimer and adorno's "the dialectic of enlightenement" as my blog's favorite book.
Posted by: cat dirt | May 15, 2006 at 05:18 PM