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title: "Infinite Songs: A Critique, Critique"
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published: 2018-12-19
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hey its ya boy tanthonyAntano here. now i spent a lot of time in the golden age of king gizzard and the lizard wizard fan club facebook page, back in its peak.
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one of the topics of debate that kept resurfacing was about the song "mr beat" from nonagon infinity. this song was a tonal shift from every other song on the album, and the fan base was split on whether they liked it or not.
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one argument was that in an infinite song album - when each song transitions into each other, and the last song transitions into the first, you need a "pivot point" to act as a time keeping mechanism so that it doesnt all merge into each other.
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im going to say my thoughts about how i agree with that argument.
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## loops
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loops, circles, wheels, looping elements revolve around some point of fixture. there are two possibilities; either the wheel is revolving itself, or the point of fixture is itself revolving.
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## point revolver
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in this scenario the song is a concrete wheel, attached to some point in space through its axle.
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the concrete is perfectly circle, so there is no change in form if it revolves, the final state is the same, theres no point to revolve.
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that means the point of fixture is revolving the wheel.
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in order for this there must be some sort of infastructure behind the point, which itself entails people to build and maintain it, and it just goes on and on.
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this distracts the listener from the music.
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## self independant
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in this scenario, the wheel itself is outputting some amount of force to revolve. the wheel is concrete and petal shaped, with the corner being heavy.
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if the corner is in the air, it will drop and the wheel will move.
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at the bottom it has enough force (in this world) to continue up the other side and start the process again.
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nothing else needs to exist, so you can focus on the music.
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## fin
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thats why its important that infinite song albums have one song thats a point of difference from everything else.
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it makes the album better.
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`peace out`
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