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[pmcd9]

I just discovered that there's an Ondes Martenot on How to Disappear Completely.

[pmcd9]

I don't normally get involved with these discussions, but the proper thread title is "Moaning Bucket of Tar."

[robot_god]

For a bunch of people who whine so much about not having a new comic, we sure don't have a lot to say once we get one.

We're just takin' it slow.  We got all month to discuss it.

[littlefallsmets]

Not to mention that even next month when we get the next strip, the main jist will still be "the bear is being tortured in the van and I guess the cats will eventually shamble toward the goal of intervening".

So we got the heart of the next one covered already.

[theinevitable]

It is interesting how early inventors of electronic instruments didn't go straight for "it's a guitar, but electric" or "it's a piano, but electric." They went for these weird theremin-type things that mostly seem good for making weird noises.

maybe this has to do with the ways you make electric things make noise, I guess.

[wombat]

We're just takin' it slow.  We got all month to discuss it.

I would give you a thousand cans but I don't think Ash could take it again so soon.

[pmcd9]

I haven't said it as much, but I don't like the arbitrary 1000 can donations either.

[Pedro Picasso]

It is interesting how early inventors of electronic instruments didn't go straight for "it's a guitar, but electric" or "it's a piano, but electric." They went for these weird theremin-type things that mostly seem good for making weird noises.

maybe this has to do with the ways you make electric things make noise, I guess.

Early electronic instruments were made by and for people who were interested in electronic music. Weird, crazy, sound-scape kinds of things. They wanted a completely different sound from the "played out" mainstream instruments that they felt had already done any interesting thing they could do. They wanted experimental music, and computer-controlled oscilloscopes were the new frontier. Decades later, the mainstream discovered they could turn it into all key-tars and drum-sounding metronomes, and the rest is a sad shambles.

My "electronic music" class in college has REAL WORLD APPLICATIONS!

[jay-ell]

Decades later, the mainstream discovered they could turn it into all key-tars and drum-sounding metronomes, and the rest is a sad shambles pure awesome.

FTFY.

My "electronic music" class in college has REAL WORLD APPLICATIONS!

Education.

[pmcd9]

It is interesting how early inventors of electronic instruments didn't go straight for "it's a guitar, but electric" or "it's a piano, but electric." They went for these weird theremin-type things that mostly seem good for making weird noises.

This was in the 1920s before the guitar had been invented.

[wombat]

I haven't said it as much, but I don't like the arbitrary 1000 can donations either.

Good, because I never give arbitrary thousand cans.

[wombat]

My "electronic music" class in college has REAL WORLD APPLICATIONS!

Pedro thinks this board is the real world. Don't anyone say anything, OK?

[KeithHernandez]

This was in the 1920s before the guitar had been invented.

Wait, what?  I am going to have to call bullshit on that.  Or was that a joke?

[smick]

Wait, what?  I am going to have to call bullshit on that.  Or was that a joke?

I think he means to say "Electric guitar".

[KeithHernandez]

But he was replying to this:

It is interesting how early inventors of electronic instruments didn't go straight for "it's a guitar, but electric" or "it's a piano, but electric." They went for these weird theremin-type things that mostly seem good for making weird noises.