headcanon that Encom programs and human Users have almost entirely non-overlapping preferences in music
most program music sounds like incomprehensible machine noise to Users, and most User music sounds like pretty much the equivalent to a program
it’s possible for either side to acquire the taste for the other, but it’s rare
further headcanon: the whole artistic range of the Wendy Carlos soundtrack represents the entirety of the overlap in which music will generally appeal to both programs and humans. (Even the most User-friendly program music will still strike humans as having that sort of… beautifully eerie, otherworldly quality to it.)
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Another example of being on the same frequency. 😏 I’ve been thinking a LOT about this actually. Wendy is the Venn diagram overlap. 😂
I have to think…for selfish, headcanon-y reasons there has to be more overlap tho. I just can’t really define for myself what his “eerie, lilting tune that [wasn’t recognizable] as any User music” would sound like. The closest I’ve come to is the singing saw, which is extremely ironic as it is the least digital thing. 😆
hehehe!!
I was just talking with Max about how there’s probably a lot of weird program (or ultra-nerdy-User) music that falls somewhere in that same overlap (maybe alongside Wendy Carlos or maybe expanding the overlap a little) …
…music that has some of the eerieness and some of the “wtf is this incoherent noise lol”… but still sets off some sort of pleasurable response in the right kind of people, or the right kind of programs
we also think Flynn probably is in the highest percentile of Users for being able to acquire the taste for program music. Though he seems to have gone along a different path in the weird-music-overlap area, hiring Daft Punk to work on his own Grid
(I think somewhere in the Discord there’s a whole headcanon about how he got them there, lol)
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