Remember When You Loved Star Wars?

Target’s new Star Wars ad has no movie clips at all (okay, one tiny one), but will still get you excited about the December premiere of Star Wars VII: The Force Awakens. It relies on nostalgia, with clips of kids (and grownups) all joyously indulging in Star Wars glee.  

(YouTube link)

What’s this all about? Well, it doesn’t say in the ad at all, but the new toys and other merchandise accompanying The Force Awakens will arrive in Target stores September 4th. That gives us all plenty of time to clear the stores of Christmas gifts before the movie even opens. That way, it won’t matter a bit whether the film is any good or not. Still, no matter how you feel about merchandising, enjoy the video for what it is.  -via Time


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I published an analysis of a piece of electronic music (The sea darkens... by Joji Yuasa) in which major sections and even individual sonic events are seemingly organized around the Golden Mean. Yuasa says that he wasn't trying to use the GM (or Golden Section) as an organizational tool but there were some remarkable moments.

Poeme electronique by Edgard Varese is reported to have been organized similarly (it was performed inside the Philips Pavilion, designed by Le Corbusier, who is well known to have made use of the GM/GS in his architecture).

It works well for musicians as it is not in the "normal" 1/2 or 1/3 proportion that most metrical music is written in.
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Not to be a hater, but that's some very poor analysis he does on the web page. For one thing, the points he chooses are approximate, not exactly lining up with the onset of the loudness peaks. I think he's really seeing a ratio of 1.625:1. In musical terms, that would be an accent on the downbeat of a 4/4 measure, and another accent on the fifth 8th-note of the measure. Pretty standard stuff in funk music and many other genres.
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Today I had to take care of an intern. She has short legs. She does not fit the graphs in the website.
What does it mean? That she's not good at funk music?

it's all BS.
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thank you review stew. this is guff.

its a wing of the pythagorean 'harmony of the spheres' school of musicology and its numerous descendants (which 99% of the world's music has nothing to do with - can somebody supply some golden section/non golden section statistics for the worlds music please?)
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I hate to be the bearer of negative news but this beat was alive and well a few years before the Winstons used it in '69. When I played in a garage band in during most of the 60's, our first drummer was using it in '65 or '66. He used to call it the Seattle beat. The northwest bands were using it in the early 60's--like the Wailers and Kingsmen and a local favorite, the Beachcombers.
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This is very very interesting. I am amazed at anything related to the golden ratio. Now this is also a great overview of the "amen break" itself. I found this very well made.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5SaFTm2bcac
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