The next chapter in our Exercises in Style-saga has been uploaded to Bandcamp. This time it is variation #29 Perfektum (Present Perfect). A new animated video (far from perfect, we admit 😊) has been put together for the occasion. Enjoy!
In Panzerpappa, we continue our quest to musically interpret the 99 small texts which constitute the extraordinary literary work Exercises in Style by Raymond Queneau. This is the 23rd variation, or exercise, to be released.
This time, Steinar has tackled exercise No. 29, which in Norwegian is entitled Perfektum. Directly translated, this would be Present Perfect in English (the title of exercise No. 29 in the official English translation is Past).
With the title in mind, Steinar started pondering on the concept of perfection. On the one hand, objective perfection is only a theoretical ideal in this imperfect world of ours. But on the other hand, a subjective, perhaps even naive, sense of perfection might be experienced in brief moments when you feel that everything is «perfect». It might be a starlight night sky, a dead quiet sea surface on a summer’s day, or perhaps the tiny hand of a sleeping infant. Or just the feeling of wind rushing through your hair as you hurl down the highway in a signal red cabriolet?
In all its imperfections, here is Panzerpappa’s interpretation of Exercises in Styles No. 29: Present Perfect.
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Stiløvingar [Exercises in Style] album is a work in progress and will continue to grow as we compose and record tracks. If you buy the album now you will be informed when new tracks are added to the album as long as you follow us on Bandcamp. We will add a handful of new tracks every now and then. By 2025 the album will contain 99 tracks, one for each of the exercises in the book Exercises in Style (1947) by Raymond Queneau. In other words, the price you pay is for the full digital album with all 99 tracks.
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Progress: 23 of 99 finished.
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