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| Long before Lady Gaga bought his house, Mr. Zappa ("just another Frank from LA") opinionated in an interview: "If you want to be a musician, you just have to realize that nobody is gonna care." To prove him wrong, the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences gave Frank Zappa a "Best Rock Instrumental Performance (Orchestra, Group or Soloist)" Grammy for his "Jazz from Hell" record that was "performed" without any musicians or instruments on a computer. To be sold in stores this all-instrumental "Jazz from Hell" had to carry a sticker that read: "Parental Advisory Explicit Content" and the "Explicit Content" was neither Rock nor Jazz, but his own brand of complex music made on a $200,000 Synclavier music computer.
Even more expensive was the HAL 9000, a sentient computer that controlled the systems of the "Discovery One" spacecraft and interacted with the ship's astronaut crew in both the film and novel entitled "2001: A Space Odyssey". It was mostly depicted as a camera lens containing a red dot. As Arthur C. Clarke opinionated in "The Lost Worlds of 2001": "As is clearly stated in the novel (Chapter 16), HAL stands for Heuristically programmed ALgorithmic computer. However, about once a week [sic!] some character spots the fact that HAL is one letter ahead of IBM, and promptly assumes that Stanley [Kubrick] and I were taking a crack at the estimable institution." Arthur was quite the character. These are the facts. "The world is the totality of facts, not of things", as Ludwig Wittgenstein opinionated. As a matter of fact, I'm going to be frank; this is what "Jazz from HAL 9000" is: Just another purely algorithmic Wiener Process that produced 12 endless streams of complex music. This ain't no "Jazz for the Jet Set". Quite Zappa-esque? No, Rothkamm-atic! But is anyone gonna care? |
| Catalog No: | FLX64 (LN451) |
| Title: | Jazz from HAL 9000 |
| Sound Artist: | Frank Rothkamm |
| Visual Artist: | Holger Rothkamm |
| Label: | Flux Records |
| Length: | 36:00 (2160s) |
| Composed: | 2016 |
| Location: | Los Angeles |
| Instruments: | Formula Kurzweil K2500 EMU Procussion Atari Formula Roland JV-1080 Korg M3R Roland SC-33 |
| Release Date: | 10/12/2018 |
| Format: | Digital |
| Tags: | IFORMM |
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