This is going to be quite the pretentious entry. I do apologize in advance for the opinion i will share with you. Most of the listeners of Beethoven’s 9th Symphony might find this entry quite daring and mostly disturbing. This is what I think: I found what Beethoven was trying to say with this huge piece of music. I found the meaning of it. I found Joy. This doesn’t mean in any way that I am joyful, no. As a matter of fact, this knowledge has made me miserable, because as You will see, Joy is nothing but a state in the whole event between building expectation and happiness.
Let us begin.
The 9th has to be the most famous song ever, it’s so mainstream that it’s almost offensive. We have it on: advertising, sports events, school events, porn (yes porn), Woody Allen movies, etc. Adding to this list the fact that it set the format for the modern CD. When the scientists at Phillips came with the first prototype for a CD; a miserable musician whined nonstop about 60 minutes of music being a bad idea. Why? you might ask yourself. I’ll tell you why. The 9th and all her movements are 74 minutes long. So the winning format of music portability should hold the complete piece within. I, for once, fucking entirely agree with something in life. This has been too much text so I’m going to insert a Beethoven picture right now.
He was def as a fucking snail, wait… Are snails def? It doesn’t matter.
The whole finding it’s not attributed to me, this would be a complete lie and I am in no way as sensitive and snobby as one has to be to find this incredible secret. This whole situation was explained to me by a musician at a classy party that I was not invited to but somehow managed to be in; this, however, is another story.
Beethoven (look at picture above) found the most accurate description of what Joy is and he explained it to us for a long 74 minutes. Joy is imperceptible and complicated. Let me elaborate on this and I will even use graphics to defend my point.
On a musical level the whole 9th is not more complicated or elaborated than a lot of overtures out there. Tchaikovsky is much more complete I might say. Rachmaninoff was an absolute God and did daring and complicated shit that can’t be played or performed even at our days. Bach was a complete angelical cunt. However, Beethoven spoke to the world in a song. He managed to compose something that defined in a philosophical way a primitive state of mind. For this achievement he used logic and mathematics.
The secret of his masterpiece is to actually show you joy. I’m going to spoil everything for you if you keep reading. My advice at this point is to close this fucking blog. Get a good version of the 9th. Use really good headsets and invest 74 minutes of your life for something worth it. O.K. If You insist i will tell you where does this happens.
The last movement of the piece “Presto” starts with a bang. This bang is the sub-sequential awareness Beethoven has been inserting to you slowly and without lubricant. Around minute 2 of this last movement he’s SCREAMING at You: Here It Fucking Comes; my big secret, the meaning of all this mambo, what you’ve been waiting for, THE SHIT IN THE STICK. Precisely at 2:50 minutes He tells you. He gives you his secret. The song explains Joy to you.
By the way, I’m using Wiener Philharmoniker’s performance of the 9th. I think this had to be stated in a prior time. Well it doesn’t matter.
Back in track. The secret is in the famous riff, yes, but not quite the riff itself. The riff is awesome, don’t get me wrong. But the riff is an explosion of feelings and a clear example of climax and satisfaction. This famous Ode to Joy riff is not Joy itself. Let me acquire the graphics needed for this complicated explanation.
First let me show you a complete waveform of the Presto movement:
Then let me show you Joy:
A really good friend of mine preview these images and he said: “I see your point, there’s nothing in Joy.” He couldn’t be more wrong. There’s actually everything on Joy. It is the whole famous Ode to Joy riff and a really low volume level. It is almost subsonic. We should make a poll at a philharmonic that has played the 9th successfully (if possible) to see how hard it is to play this part. The fact is that At the rightful moment Beethoven shows you Joy, He gives you so little of it because that is what you need. Joy is the hidden imperceptible state that precedes happiness. And you need so little of it because the overload of this state itself wouldn’t be Joy, it would be obscene and explosive. Joy is a matter of presence not achievement.
I recommend that now that you know the secret You should dedicate the necessary time for the whole piece, not just the presto. The path to Joy is long and difficult. Buy you couldn’t be satisfied with so little if the fight weren’t complete.
P.D. He was def, so should You be. Listen to the 9th with the more volume you can stand. Isolate yourself with a really good pair of headphones, I use Altec Lansings. These are the rules, They are necessary aspects.
As always, thank for reading.
.Anta
Let us begin.
The 9th has to be the most famous song ever, it’s so mainstream that it’s almost offensive. We have it on: advertising, sports events, school events, porn (yes porn), Woody Allen movies, etc. Adding to this list the fact that it set the format for the modern CD. When the scientists at Phillips came with the first prototype for a CD; a miserable musician whined nonstop about 60 minutes of music being a bad idea. Why? you might ask yourself. I’ll tell you why. The 9th and all her movements are 74 minutes long. So the winning format of music portability should hold the complete piece within. I, for once, fucking entirely agree with something in life. This has been too much text so I’m going to insert a Beethoven picture right now.
He was def as a fucking snail, wait… Are snails def? It doesn’t matter.
The whole finding it’s not attributed to me, this would be a complete lie and I am in no way as sensitive and snobby as one has to be to find this incredible secret. This whole situation was explained to me by a musician at a classy party that I was not invited to but somehow managed to be in; this, however, is another story.
Beethoven (look at picture above) found the most accurate description of what Joy is and he explained it to us for a long 74 minutes. Joy is imperceptible and complicated. Let me elaborate on this and I will even use graphics to defend my point.
On a musical level the whole 9th is not more complicated or elaborated than a lot of overtures out there. Tchaikovsky is much more complete I might say. Rachmaninoff was an absolute God and did daring and complicated shit that can’t be played or performed even at our days. Bach was a complete angelical cunt. However, Beethoven spoke to the world in a song. He managed to compose something that defined in a philosophical way a primitive state of mind. For this achievement he used logic and mathematics.
The secret of his masterpiece is to actually show you joy. I’m going to spoil everything for you if you keep reading. My advice at this point is to close this fucking blog. Get a good version of the 9th. Use really good headsets and invest 74 minutes of your life for something worth it. O.K. If You insist i will tell you where does this happens.
The last movement of the piece “Presto” starts with a bang. This bang is the sub-sequential awareness Beethoven has been inserting to you slowly and without lubricant. Around minute 2 of this last movement he’s SCREAMING at You: Here It Fucking Comes; my big secret, the meaning of all this mambo, what you’ve been waiting for, THE SHIT IN THE STICK. Precisely at 2:50 minutes He tells you. He gives you his secret. The song explains Joy to you.
By the way, I’m using Wiener Philharmoniker’s performance of the 9th. I think this had to be stated in a prior time. Well it doesn’t matter.
Back in track. The secret is in the famous riff, yes, but not quite the riff itself. The riff is awesome, don’t get me wrong. But the riff is an explosion of feelings and a clear example of climax and satisfaction. This famous Ode to Joy riff is not Joy itself. Let me acquire the graphics needed for this complicated explanation.
First let me show you a complete waveform of the Presto movement:
Then let me show you Joy:
A really good friend of mine preview these images and he said: “I see your point, there’s nothing in Joy.” He couldn’t be more wrong. There’s actually everything on Joy. It is the whole famous Ode to Joy riff and a really low volume level. It is almost subsonic. We should make a poll at a philharmonic that has played the 9th successfully (if possible) to see how hard it is to play this part. The fact is that At the rightful moment Beethoven shows you Joy, He gives you so little of it because that is what you need. Joy is the hidden imperceptible state that precedes happiness. And you need so little of it because the overload of this state itself wouldn’t be Joy, it would be obscene and explosive. Joy is a matter of presence not achievement.
I recommend that now that you know the secret You should dedicate the necessary time for the whole piece, not just the presto. The path to Joy is long and difficult. Buy you couldn’t be satisfied with so little if the fight weren’t complete.
P.D. He was def, so should You be. Listen to the 9th with the more volume you can stand. Isolate yourself with a really good pair of headphones, I use Altec Lansings. These are the rules, They are necessary aspects.
As always, thank for reading.
.Anta
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