Post on 13-Jan-2016
PRESENTATION BYCAMDEN KRUSEC
BACKGROUNDOK COMPUTER- Released 1997- Widespread
acclaim
“PARANOID ANDROID”- 2nd track- Longest song on
album- Many accolades
Music Video- Magnus Carlsson- “Robin”
-1ST MOVEMENT:- 84 BPM- ACOUSTIC GUITAR RIFF - THE DRUMS W/ SYNCOPATED
CABASA AND CLAVES - ELECTRIC GUITAR - THOM YORKE SINGS FALSETTO
- THE CHORUS (AT 0:46) ADDS LAYER OF ELECTRIC GUITAR AND BASS GUITAR
- A COMPUTER-MODIFIED VOICE- VERSE AND THE CHORUS
REPEAT
SONG COMPOSITION
SONG COMPOSITION CONT.
-2ND MOVEMENT (2:00)- NEW RIFF- THOM SINGS VOCABLES - TIME SIG. SWITCHES BETWEEN
7/8 AND 4/4- ELECTRIC GUITAR - DIGITAL BLIPS- 2:43 HEAVY GUITAR - INCREASE IN DYNAMICS- THOM SHOUTS - HEAVILY DISTORTED ELECTRIC
GUITAR SOLO - DECRESCENDO INTO THE THIRD MOVEMENT
SONG COMPOSITION CONT.
- 3RD MOVEMENT (3:37) - 63 BPM- DECREASED DYNAMICS- MULTI-LAYERED CHORAL ARRANGEMENT- STRINGS/SYNTH PART
- 4TH MOVEMENT (5:40)- CODA OF SECOND MOVEMENT- HEAVILY DISTORTED
GUITAR SOLO
LYRICAL CONTENTDARK AND HUMOROUS:
- ANTI-CAPITALISM- CONSUMERISM AND TECHNOLOGY- MARKETING SLOGANS- INSANITY
“Again, that’s just a joke. It’s actually the other way around — it’s actually my opinion that is of no consequence at all.” –THOM YORKE
“The ‘kicking squealing gucci little piggy’ in Paranoid Android was inhuman. There was a look in this woman's eyes that I'd never seen before anywhere. Whether that was down to me being exhausted and hallucinating... no, I know what I saw in her face. couldn't sleep that night because of it. I was in a bar. Someone spilt a drink over her and she turned into this fiend. I mean, everyone was out of their minds on coke and I'm sure it was that.” –THOM YORKE
MUSICAL SEMIOTICSICONS
- RAIN- CAR CRASHS- MACHINES MALFUNCTIONING
INDEX- CYMBALS IMPLY A CHANGE IN TEMPO, KEY, THEMATIC
CONTENT
SYMBOL- MOVEMENTS SYMBOLIZE FEELINGS TOWARDS SOCIETY
AMERICAN ASPECTS
• INSTRUMENTATION OF THE ELECTRIC GUITARS • THE GENRE OF ROCK, AND THE SUBGENRES OF ALTERNATIVE
• THE SOUND IS INSPIRED HEAVILY BY ALTERNATIVE ROCK ACTS SUCH AS R.E.M AND THE PIXIES
• THE DISTORTION IS REALLY A FAR-CRY OF THE UTILIZATION OF LO-FI AMPLIFIERS IN BLUES
• THE LYRICAL CONTENT