Mariann Løkse
Library enthusiast, music lover, anglophile, atheist and socialist!
Location Norway
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Thanks for making this course available for the rest of us! I really enjoyed it, even though I'm not a musician and have never studied music. Some of it demanded rather more time and effort than I could manage, but most of it was both interesting and fascinating.
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I really find this fascinating. If I'd been 20, I'd love to throw myself into learning more about these aspects of music.
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1. James Brown: Get up
2. Digable Planets: Rebirth of slick
3. Jungle Fire/Fela Kuti: Tokuta
4. Deadmau5: Animal rights
5. Meshell Ndegeocello: Diggin you
A random selection of groovy (?) songs from my playlists:
- DeeeLite: Groove is in the heart
- Wild Cherry: Play that funky music
- John Newman: Love me again
- St. Paul & The Broken Bones:... -
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Ugh! Notational representations and spectrograms are complicated stuff for an untrained person - like learning a new alphabet! :)
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There seems to be a strong psychological/emotional aspect to how we experience 'groovy' music? Perhaps linked to what Danielsen in the video says about pleasure? How else can we explain why some people might find a song groovy, and others don't? When I was young, Stock, Aitken and Waterman productions were on every dancefloor, but there was absolutely nothing...
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Agree with Alexi. Couldn't do it!
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Not really an answer to any of the questions, but my main challenge, when it gets a bit technical/theoretical is lack of time. I feel I need more time to digest the topics. That's my own fault of course, not dedicating more time to the course. (Which I really do enjoy!) #badstudent :)
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I agree! I don't understand why the response cultures varies from genre to genre. In my head, classical and jazz performances have a much stronger behavioural code, and as an 'outsider' you're afraid of doing something 'wrong' and being revealed as an uncivilized ignoramus. It creates a certain distance between the ones who know how and the ones who don't....
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Fun exercise! For the Grieg-piece, I imagine moving like a ballet dancer with swift steps and moving my arms softly like wings. I real life - I'm no ballet dancer, and my moves are more like slightly swaying and flapping my arms a bit. For Radiohead and Kravitz, my imagined moves are more in tune with reality. As for air-guitar: I've never had the urge to play...
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With my eyes closed, the song had a much happier, 'Ibiza-like' feel, giving me associations to traveling, with the helicopter sound at the start, the sawing sounding like the chugging of a train, and the engine sound. The pan flute-ish sound connected me to South-America and the rainforest.
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To be honest, being a pop/electronica person, I feel very awkward trying to move to classical music. Move my hands - yes, but my feet just don't know what to do:) Hancock, however, was no problem. I guess I'm a victim of conventional expectations of what to do when listening to classical music. :)
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I work in a library and I've partly joined the course to learn more about moocs and digital teaching and learning. Having said that, I'm also deeply passionate about music, mainly indie, pop and electronica. I find it very intriguing the way music means so much to some people and absolutely nothing to others. I also love dancing, but only if the music is good....
