At the time of writing, the Beatles’Revolution 9“There are over 13,800,000 plays on Spotify, which undoubtedly generates a decent revenue, even considering the platform’s frequently-targeted payout rate. But compare that number to the Beatles’ self-titled 1968 “White Album” stream of over 50 billion “Blackbird” streams. Simply put, even fans of Ultra Hardcore Fab tend to skip it. Anyway, as Ian McDonald wrote The Revolution of the Head: The Beatles Records and the 60s“This eight-minute exercise in the Auditory Freedom Union is the world’s most widely distributed avant-garde artifact.”
John Lennon’s mastermind, “Revolution 9” is not exactly a song, but rather an elaborate “sound collage” assembled with wide aesthetics developed by avant-garde creators like William S. Burrows. the beatles“Graphic designers Richard Hamilton, John Cage and Carl Heinz Stockhausen. “Burrows’ cut-up text, Hamilton’s collage, and MusiqueConcrète The Cage and Stockhausen experiments continue to be a sanctuary for modernist intellectuals,” MacDonald said.
in The new polyphonic video aboveNoah Lefebe jumps into their work with their ancestors and “provides a context for understanding how the Beatles’ ‘The Strange Song’ united. Interesting aspects of this cultural historic journey include composer Pierre Schafer’s experimental transformed into the Resistance Headquarter – music and LAB studio D’SESSAI. Nazi Germany was the first magnetophone tape recorder to be developed. BBC Radiophonic Workshop. Studio Z of avant-garde rocker Frank Zappa. And Million Volt Light and Sound Rave, an event in 1967 that hosted “Carnival of Light,” I have never heard of the Beatles composition again since.
Did Lennon think he was doing it on “Revolution 9” in collaboration with George Harrison and Yoko Ono (he had just met up)? “As far as Lennon conceptualizes the work, it is likely that it was a sensory attack on the Fortress of Intellectuality,” writes McDonald. Indeed, as Lefevre points out, it expressed his ambiguity about the very notion of the relatively traditional “1968 style rebellion.”Revolution 1,“This will be appearing on the album early. The 60s may be long, but Lennon’s attitude did not lose its connection. We still hear the endless flow of promised solutions to social problems, and we all love to see plans.
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Based in Seoul Colin marshall Write and broadcasting stationTS about cities, languages, and culture. His projects include the Substack Newsletter Books about cities And the book The Stateless City: Walking through 21st century Los Angeles. Follow him on social networks previously known as Twitter @colinmarshall.
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