During a conversation with Frank J. Oteri back in October 2001, Milton Babbitt expressed his bafflement at hip-hop. Read their entire conversation on NewMusicBox: www.newmusicbox...
This video is carved into my brain. You know how some people say they think about the roman empire several times a week? Well my brain will play me "I don't even know what hip hop is to be honest with you, do you understand hip hop? What is all this scratching of records..." at least once a month
I’d like to sample a few seconds of this for a song. Do you folks own this video, and are you willing to give me permission to scratch up “what is all this scratching of Records?” Thanks
they cut off the clip just before he says something much more complimentary -- after the interviewer describes some of the process of scratching and setting samples of different music against each other and that, even as he finds Babbitt's music fascinating, and loves it, "But at the same time, there are things in hip-hop that I also find fascinating." Babbitt responds: "Oh, I don't doubt that for a moment! I grew up with popular music." newmusicusa.org/wp-content/uploads/nmbx/assets/32/interview_babbitt.pdf
Wow, that's pretty rich coming from a composer who admits his music is rather inaccessible to most people without a great deal of knowledge of music theory as well as music history!!!
Aw come on, that’s like saying serialism is just a random set of notes or minimalism is just repeating the same phrase over and over. You probably haven’t been exposed to very much of it. I don’t listen to much rap, but my favorite rap song is “Story 2” by clipping. It tells a story in a poem and the lyricism is fantastic. It starts in 3/8, and every eight bars the time signature increases by one eighth note until we’re in 4/4. Then there’s a measure of 4/4 in triplets, before metrically modulating with triplet = eighth note and then repeating the same increase by one eighth note pattern before the song reaches 4/4 again and ends. Don’t let a few songs you dislike turn you off from an entire art form!
You should listen to Madvillain - Madvillainy. An utterly fascinating record. A modern masterpiece, might change of how you view the genre. Also recommend checking out Dälek and Death Grips.
in the same way, I all too well understand all music ever played on a piano, its just some guy lazily slapping an elephant's tusks, big deal, no works of art there
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This video is carved into my brain. You know how some people say they think about the roman empire several times a week? Well my brain will play me "I don't even know what hip hop is to be honest with you, do you understand hip hop? What is all this scratching of records..." at least once a month
Lol, same
cage was already featuring 'the scratching of records' in his compositions in the 1940s
I’d like to sample a few seconds of this for a song. Do you folks own this video, and are you willing to give me permission to scratch up “what is all this scratching of Records?” Thanks
Did you do it? Lol
At least he admitted that he didn't understand it.
yeah, some would just dismiss hip hop outright
this is true- -an indicator that he was a good teacher.
The resr of the music world doesn't listen to his music either.
they cut off the clip just before he says something much more complimentary -- after the interviewer describes some of the process of scratching and setting samples of different music against each other and that, even as he finds Babbitt's music fascinating, and loves it, "But at the same time, there are things in hip-hop that I also find fascinating." Babbitt responds: "Oh, I don't doubt that for a moment! I grew up with popular music." newmusicusa.org/wp-content/uploads/nmbx/assets/32/interview_babbitt.pdf
am i way off to say that he was being sarcastic?
@@plotted_pant42 it's very possible
@@plotted_pant42 not really, babbitt loved some popular music
Yeah...that ending is priceless!!!♥️♥️
When you scratchin' the record you hippin' the hop.
R.I.P. Milton Babbitt (1916-2011)
"What is all this scratching of records?" And GET OFF MY LAWN! 🤣🤣🤣
MST3K RIDING WITH DEATH brought me here!!!!!
Wow, that's pretty rich coming from a composer who admits his music is rather inaccessible to most people without a great deal of knowledge of music theory as well as music history!!!
Lmao @ that ending.
Rap is just contemporary
Wow that sentiment was more meaningless than anything Babbitt ever produced
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂!!
Scratching records in rhythm sounds a lot better than scratching the E string on the violin.
who cares if he listens lol
Didn't he invent music that just goes "beep beep boop?"
The devil.
I understand it all too well... it's poorly written confession spoken over lame cliched beats and samples.
Aw come on, that’s like saying serialism is just a random set of notes or minimalism is just repeating the same phrase over and over. You probably haven’t been exposed to very much of it.
I don’t listen to much rap, but my favorite rap song is “Story 2” by clipping. It tells a story in a poem and the lyricism is fantastic. It starts in 3/8, and every eight bars the time signature increases by one eighth note until we’re in 4/4. Then there’s a measure of 4/4 in triplets, before metrically modulating with triplet = eighth note and then repeating the same increase by one eighth note pattern before the song reaches 4/4 again and ends. Don’t let a few songs you dislike turn you off from an entire art form!
You should listen to Madvillain - Madvillainy. An utterly fascinating record. A modern masterpiece, might change of how you view the genre. Also recommend checking out Dälek and Death Grips.
You gotta dig a little to find the caviar. You can do it.
You've proved to us that you know nothing.
in the same way, I all too well understand all music ever played on a piano, its just some guy lazily slapping an elephant's tusks, big deal, no works of art there
Cringe.