PRESENTATION BYCAMDEN KRUSEC

BACKGROUNDOK COMPUTER- Released 1997- Widespread

acclaim

“PARANOID ANDROID”- 2nd track- Longest song on

album- Many accolades

Music Video- Magnus Carlsson- “Robin”

-1ST MOVEMENT:- 84 BPM- ACOUSTIC GUITAR RIFF - THE DRUMS W/ SYNCOPATED

CABASA AND CLAVES - ELECTRIC GUITAR - THOM YORKE SINGS FALSETTO

- THE CHORUS (AT 0:46) ADDS LAYER OF ELECTRIC GUITAR AND BASS GUITAR

- A COMPUTER-MODIFIED VOICE- VERSE AND THE CHORUS

REPEAT

SONG COMPOSITION

SONG COMPOSITION CONT.

-2ND MOVEMENT (2:00)- NEW RIFF- THOM SINGS VOCABLES - TIME SIG. SWITCHES BETWEEN

7/8 AND 4/4- ELECTRIC GUITAR - DIGITAL BLIPS- 2:43 HEAVY GUITAR - INCREASE IN DYNAMICS- THOM SHOUTS - HEAVILY DISTORTED ELECTRIC

GUITAR SOLO - DECRESCENDO INTO THE THIRD MOVEMENT

SONG COMPOSITION CONT.

- 3RD MOVEMENT (3:37) - 63 BPM- DECREASED DYNAMICS- MULTI-LAYERED CHORAL ARRANGEMENT- STRINGS/SYNTH PART

- 4TH MOVEMENT (5:40)- CODA OF SECOND MOVEMENT- HEAVILY DISTORTED

GUITAR SOLO

LYRICAL CONTENTDARK AND HUMOROUS:

- ANTI-CAPITALISM- CONSUMERISM AND TECHNOLOGY- MARKETING SLOGANS- INSANITY

“Again, that’s just a joke. It’s actually the other way around — it’s actually my opinion that is of no consequence at all.” –THOM YORKE

“The ‘kicking squealing gucci little piggy’ in Paranoid Android was inhuman. There was a look in this woman's eyes that I'd never seen before anywhere. Whether that was down to me being exhausted and hallucinating... no, I know what I saw in her face. couldn't sleep that night because of it. I was in a bar. Someone spilt a drink over her and she turned into this fiend. I mean, everyone was out of their minds on coke and I'm sure it was that.” –THOM YORKE

MUSICAL SEMIOTICSICONS

- RAIN- CAR CRASHS- MACHINES MALFUNCTIONING

INDEX- CYMBALS IMPLY A CHANGE IN TEMPO, KEY, THEMATIC

CONTENT

SYMBOL- MOVEMENTS SYMBOLIZE FEELINGS TOWARDS SOCIETY

AMERICAN ASPECTS

• INSTRUMENTATION OF THE ELECTRIC GUITARS • THE GENRE OF ROCK, AND THE SUBGENRES OF ALTERNATIVE

• THE SOUND IS INSPIRED HEAVILY BY ALTERNATIVE ROCK ACTS SUCH AS R.E.M AND THE PIXIES

• THE DISTORTION IS REALLY A FAR-CRY OF THE UTILIZATION OF LO-FI AMPLIFIERS IN BLUES

• THE LYRICAL CONTENT