If that's what you're interested in, consult my publicist. Though just know that I'm djing pretty much every weekend now. Come visit me at Tube either this weekend, or next weekend, and then at Holocene or Crown Room the weekend after that, and then Tube the weekend after that. You get the picture.
What we're actually here for is the most amazing thing I've seen/heard recently. Thanks Jeff.
This painting is the result of a study undertaken by two Russian artists named Komar and Melamid with the assistance of a variety of market-research firms. It contains all the elements that American's most wanted to see in a painting including, an autumnal landscape with wild animals, a family enjoying the outdoors, the color blue, and George Washington. They made the most desired painting for a bunch of different countries along with the least wanted painting for each of these countries as well. It's amazing. To see the results of this survey,
click here. To see more of the paintings generated by the survey,
click here.
More importantly. MOST IMPORTANTLY. These motherfuckers started a 'band,' if we can call it that. The are called "The Most Unwanted Orchestra." In a complete reversal of what they did with the paintings, they generated this beast of a
"song."In their own words:
"The most unwanted music is over 25 minutes long, veers wildly between loud and quiet sections, between fast and slow tempos, and features timbres of extremely high and low pitch, with each dichotomy presented in abrupt transition. The most unwanted orchestra was determined to be large, and features the accordion and bagpipe (which tie at 13% as the most unwanted instrument), banjo, flute, tuba, harp, organ, synthesizer (the only instrument that appears in both the most wanted and most unwanted ensembles). An operatic soprano raps and sings atonal music, advertising jingles, political slogans, and "elevator" music, and a children's choir sings jingles and holiday songs. The most unwanted subjects for lyrics are cowboys and holidays, and the most unwanted listening circumstances are involuntary exposure to commercials and elevator music. Therefore, it can be shown that if there is no covariance—someone who dislikes bagpipes is as likely to hate elevator music as someone who despises the organ, for example—fewer than 200 individuals of the world's total population would enjoy this piece."
Rest assured that this song's lyrics will become the basis for innumerable song titles in the future. So far we have "The Forgiveness and The Chocolate." If you want to suffer through the worst/best parts of this
click here to download the children's choir singing the holiday related jingles. Learn about Ramadan. Yom Kippur. It's baffling. And amazing.
By the way, here is Italy's least wanted painting, click on it to download the whole track:
