[UA] Tuneful Insanity

[Joe Murphy (Broin)]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Greg Stolze" <holycrow at mindspring.com>
To: <ua at lists.uchicago.edu>
Sent: Tuesday, May 08, 2001 2:17 PM
Subject: [UA] Tuneful Insanity


> >On Tue, 8 May 2001 22:30:31 -0700 (PDT), ua at lists.uchicago.edu wrote:
> >
> >a whole bunch more boring crap about what is or isn't a risk that we've
all
> >read ad nauseum already.
> >
> >Can we all just agree to disagree on this one and talk about voodoo or
> >qabala or numerology or california or something?
>
> Your wish is my command.  At  least to the degree that you wish for a new
> topic.    This was an idea I had driving home from work yesterday,
> listening to the radio.  ("Priests of Syrinx" if you must know.  Or is the
> title "Temple of Syrinx"?  Anyhow.)
>
> So I'm jamming along with Rush and the thought crosses my mind: What if,
in
> UA, music were magickal?  I don't mean that you can work magick through
> music, spellsinger-style, as someone suggested.  What if music itself is a
> FORM OF MAGICK and no one recognizes it?  Specifically, that its effects
> are so well known and so predictable that it doesn't seem magickal.  We
> just accept it as a normal part of life, when in fact its this
> inexplicable, immaterial force that has a powerful effect on our thoughts
> and emotions.  We can annotate it and theorize about its structure, but
can
> anyone really explain Beatlemania?
[snip]

There was a thread on... uh... rec.games.frp.advocacy, about a new genre for
gaming: Musical Surrealism. I didn't follow it, especially, but it may be
worth a look on Deja^H^H^H^HGoogle.

And I know a crazyperson who once wrote a scenario (for a con?) where each
scene was described as *just* a song title. Very intuitive game. =)

Joe.
--
Joe Murphy (Broin)
broin at notzen.com

"You'll regret being so damn abusive when
the electric UFO gods transphase in from
Dimension 10 to appoint me manager of
the universe."  - The Drummer, Planetary.





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