squarepusher does listening to aphex twin and squarepusher make you smarter?!@

back in 5th grade my teacher miss johnson, a middle aged intellectual-type inherently dissatisfied with her life (which led to fun times for dad @ the parent/teacher meetings) being incredibly self-important one time took to heart this idea that she had read about where playing mozart in classrooms of students actually does some sort of mental-trigger-thingy that raises their overall aptitude levels. impressed, she decided to use us as her guinea pigs in her quest to find a higher purpose in educating 85% subservient suburban peasants in an anonymous midwest suburb: i mean could you possibly dream of a better lot to fuck with?!@ it was a literature/writing-about-literature class so i spose she was waxing artistic with some sort of naivete where we could unleash our true inner artist or something... fuck if i know. the bitch was and likely is now way way more nuts.

for the record, i can tell you that listening to mozart whilst doing whatever i did managed to do absolutely nothing for me, well, other than annoying me, cuz i tend to find classical music to be underwhelming. i'm a child of the 80s: the OG mtv nintendo generation>> there are weird japanese 8-bit music composers who have brought tears to my eyes in such legendary titles like the guardian legend for fuck's sake!!@ i love music that's so synthetic it shits out syntax errors, so i found her experiment to have failed miserably and i put the idea to rest for some time.

amazingly enough, in the last year or so it has occurred to me a few times that this kind of thing might actually work if you had the proper type of music. i came to this realization whilst writing something while nodding my head intently to squarepusher's anstromm-feck-4, like, there i was in my writing zone doing what i do quite fucking well and without even so much as a foreground thought really devoted to the music. so there i was synced up to one of the most brilliant rhythms in the history of electronic music with the drums flying around my brain like buzzsaws like holy shit i swear those drums made perfect sense to me... it's why i worship at the altar of the greats, because for no matter how balls out mental it goes there's always that core pattern holding it together, rendering all of the variance to work as a veritable mechanism of creshendo that maybe-even-subconsciously wills you towards total unity with the track... it's like allstate, you're in good hands.

it's not necessarily just aphex twin and squarepusher, however, i do think they're the best examples of this phenomenon seeing as i think they're the two best percussionists i've ever heard cuz seriously, human drummers don't really impress me. they're smelly wannabe lead-singers... i digress, before i ramble out 64 different directions, has anyone else noticed that they get in some sort of a hellaciously productive groove whilst they're jamming out to brilliant fast-n-mental electronic music and when you notice it you're like "whoa, i'm hardcore. most people get like this over sweet home alabama" and then you smile and promptly head home for your rounds of victory masturbation cuz clearly you are too nextschool to procreate with a females of a lower species =D

I'm not sure about Squarepusher, but "Smelly Cunts", the hidden track on Analogue Bubblebath 3.1, made me lose 16 IQ points.

wait, what?

so you are telling me you write your shitty posts and what I assume to be shitty music while listening to shitty squarepusher??

No, but it probably makes you a virgin

duh obviously it makes you smarter that's what it's for did you ever think of why it's called INTELLIGENT dance music??

  On 8/10/2009 at 7:17 AM, sinicalypse said:

back in 5th grade my teacher miss johnson, a middle aged intellectual-type inherently dissatisfied with her life being incredibly self-important one time took to heart this idea that she had read about where playing mozart in classrooms of students actually does some sort of mental-trigger-thingy that raises their overall aptitude levels.

Another case of the media jumpling to completely the wrong conclusions from a medical paper - http://edition.cnn.com/HEALTH/9908/25/mozart.iq/

So basically listening to music (no matter how complex) does not equate to an increase of your IQ.

yes. listening to Intelligent Dance Music inherently makes you more mentally proficient. Especially if you're jewish too.

I listen to ambient (i.e. SAW I/II or Eno) sometimes when I'm studying and I think it works.

Then again I also listen to Boys Noize sometimes and it does the same.

  On 8/10/2009 at 9:52 AM, Dan C said:

No, but it probably makes you a virgin

QFT

i've listened to Family Affair by Mary J. Blige every day since it came out and i turned out all right i think

yes, definitely

*pushes glasses up bridge of nose*

  On 8/10/2009 at 9:52 AM, Dan C said:

No, but it probably makes you a virgin

*masturbates; tear rolls down cheek*

i'd think a good chucnk of posts both here and on xlt prove its not true

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edit: see? -------|

I read the whole post.

I think complex music can make a listener more musically intelligent, or at the least cause a listener to, over time, become more appreciative of complexity in music.

  On 8/10/2009 at 7:17 AM, sinicalypse said:

creshendo

Maybe you need to listen to them for just a little bit longer.