Gleisner, anyone?
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elfsTwo noted neurological researchers, Darryl Macer and Anthony Canamucio, have launched "The Behaviorome Mental Map Project" (sadly, the link currently requires a press credential, so I won't put it up). Their project is grandiose in the extreme: assuming that an "idea" is a mental conceptualization of something encountered in the past, present, or future of the human being, the number of "ideas" a human being experiences is exceptionally large but still finite. By applying the methodologies now in use in genetics, astronomy, or other computationally large sciences, the idea is to create a map of ideas: a map, that is, of the way the brain categorizes everything.
You can put a frog in a Singularity, and he'll hop right out...
I've been listening to the album Meteora by the band Linkin Park. When I first heard them on the radio, from their last album, I had a terrible impression: screaming, yelling, bad hip-hop done by people who had no clue what hip-hop was about.
I've changed my mind. Meteora is an amazing album. The lyrics are predictably about youthful angst, but the musicianship, both in the conceptualization and the execution, is quite astounding. There are two singers, one of whom raps and the other of whom has this powerful, strong singing voice perfectly suited to serious heavy metal. This one of those bands that has voraciously absorbed every sound they've ever heard. They even have a scratcher in their band, and he's good. Rage Against The Machine popularized a scheme of rapping a question and then screaming the respose heavy-metal style: Linkin Park executes the technique on their song Figure 1 with such precision and passion, with such strong voice and conviction, that there's simply no sense in putting RATM on the player ever again.
It's not a perfect album. The song Nobody's Listening is a bit over the top in this "use everything" philosophy: heavy base, scratch, and Japanese flute? Oddly, it's okay, but it's not great. But it's the only real miss on an album full of wonders. It is not like the Godsmack album Faceless, which I reviewed last month and thought repetitious: every song here is new, fresh, and unique.
I first learned about Linkin Park from the MTV Video Somewhere I Belong, and my impression was "Cool! Geek heavy metal! Rockin' tune!" Linkin Park is geek heavy metal, but it's so much more than that. Meteora takes every hard rock experiment of the last twenty years and synthesizes those ideas into something intensely satisfying.
You can put a frog in a Singularity, and he'll hop right out...
I've been listening to the album Meteora by the band Linkin Park. When I first heard them on the radio, from their last album, I had a terrible impression: screaming, yelling, bad hip-hop done by people who had no clue what hip-hop was about.
I've changed my mind. Meteora is an amazing album. The lyrics are predictably about youthful angst, but the musicianship, both in the conceptualization and the execution, is quite astounding. There are two singers, one of whom raps and the other of whom has this powerful, strong singing voice perfectly suited to serious heavy metal. This one of those bands that has voraciously absorbed every sound they've ever heard. They even have a scratcher in their band, and he's good. Rage Against The Machine popularized a scheme of rapping a question and then screaming the respose heavy-metal style: Linkin Park executes the technique on their song Figure 1 with such precision and passion, with such strong voice and conviction, that there's simply no sense in putting RATM on the player ever again.
It's not a perfect album. The song Nobody's Listening is a bit over the top in this "use everything" philosophy: heavy base, scratch, and Japanese flute? Oddly, it's okay, but it's not great. But it's the only real miss on an album full of wonders. It is not like the Godsmack album Faceless, which I reviewed last month and thought repetitious: every song here is new, fresh, and unique.
I first learned about Linkin Park from the MTV Video Somewhere I Belong, and my impression was "Cool! Geek heavy metal! Rockin' tune!" Linkin Park is geek heavy metal, but it's so much more than that. Meteora takes every hard rock experiment of the last twenty years and synthesizes those ideas into something intensely satisfying.
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Date: 2003-05-01 11:48 pm (UTC)