Richard's Animorphs Forum
Animorphs Section => Animorphs Forum Classic => Topic started by: Alaphlosiam on August 02, 2009, 12:06:37 PM
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It's brought up a couple times throughout the series that the Andalites find human music in poor taste. I'm assuming this stretches from mainstream pop trash to good stuff like classical.
So, what do you think Andalite music sounds like?
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Do they even have music they can't sing
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They do, however, have ears, and songs don't have to have vocals.
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there music would be composed of precussion and string instruments
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there music would be composed of precussion and string instruments
Why? Start a discussion, man.
Though I would agree that hoof-based percussion would be my guess. Maybe a tap-dancing type of music?
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cause they dont have mouths for wind and brass instruments
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They could blow through their nostrils and have some kind of machine that amplifies the wind force.
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Maybe their music conveys emotion or paints a mental picture like that flute thingy in Futurama. Stupid comparison I know, but for a species that communicates telepathically maybe the reason Ax doesnt get anything out of human music is because to him it's just noises without any sort of picture being painted . . . but then that does seem like the kind of thing he'd just tell the Animorphs, but then again maybe to him its so natural that he doesnt think he should have to, or thinks it would offend them too terribly.
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Eating through hooves was "natural" for him, but he still expressed how weird that is to them.
But that does make sense, the telepathy thing. That's actually a pretty damn good idea.
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the holophoner
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their whole evolution is weird lol
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Maybe their music conveys emotion or paints a mental picture like that flute thingy in Futurama. Stupid comparison I know, but for a species that communicates telepathically maybe the reason Ax doesnt get anything out of human music is because to him it's just noises without any sort of picture being painted . . . but then that does seem like the kind of thing he'd just tell the Animorphs, but then again maybe to him its so natural that he doesnt think he should have to, or thinks it would offend them too terribly.
I like that idea :]
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Actually, Andalites sing in book 41 in the future. However dispite the fact that they sing with humans in this book I think that the andalites have some kind of telepathic music variety. Or "Psychophony" (I made up the word from greek roots)
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not having a spoken language they could be tone deaf as a species and therefore unable to enjoy music.
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True
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i think their music would be more like classical, since when Elfangor was complaining about human music, he was listening to rock (i think)
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I for some reason just think that andalites would be really good at precussion. Picture this scene. A bored andalite classroom where the teacher is gone, on some buisness. Ax absentmindedly starts tapping his hooves against a hard patch of dirt. ANother slightly smaller one adds to the tune by throwing in a hard stomp after every six beats. A girl starts to tap her many fingered hands on her flank. Someone else slaps the side of their tail blade against a tree.
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ya, i agree with the idea of percussion. it is the most basic and easy way to make some sort of music. i imagine their music is somewhat tribal.
in fact... i've expanded on my thoughts on this in a ff:
http://animorphsforum.com/index.php?topic=8286.msg646001#msg646001 (http://animorphsforum.com/index.php?topic=8286.msg646001#msg646001)
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I for some reason just think that andalites would be really good at precussion. Picture this scene. A bored andalite classroom where the teacher is gone, on some buisness. Ax absentmindedly starts tapping his hooves against a hard patch of dirt. ANother slightly smaller one adds to the tune by throwing in a hard stomp after every six beats. A girl starts to tap her many fingered hands on her flank. Someone else slaps the side of their tail blade against a tree.
that could work out...wonder if they have drums :P
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Imagine a big andalite drum core style team where they march in formation and wack their tale blades on different surfaces.
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I for some reason just think that andalites would be really good at precussion. Picture this scene. A bored andalite classroom where the teacher is gone, on some buisness. Ax absentmindedly starts tapping his hooves against a hard patch of dirt. ANother slightly smaller one adds to the tune by throwing in a hard stomp after every six beats. A girl starts to tap her many fingered hands on her flank. Someone else slaps the side of their tail blade against a tree.
<Duh duh da, jitterbug.> I spoke to everyone as I heard the the doors seal shut behind Professor Moritfain.
*Snap snap*
I turned my stalk eyes to my friend Alfinana, <Jitterbug,> she chimed back and clicked her on the next beat
<You put the boom-boom into my heart
You send my soul sky high when your lovin' starts!>
Jitterbug into my brain !>
<Yeah yea!>
The whole class had joined us in impromptu rendition of Jitterbug clapping their hooves and drumming their fingers. We never even heard the professor return.
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They should do that in the animorphs movie.
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Animorphs movie? They making one or are you just saying hypethetically
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Hypothetically. There have been rumors of one but I feel they were started just to give us something to talk about. They also could have been started to farm ideas or just troll. Anyway, point is I don't think one will ever happen unless the reprint is massively popular.
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Its one of my dreams to make a super fabulous animorphs video game
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expanding on the idea that they could convey "music" via thought speak:
we need to remember that thought speak doesn't use a language, it communicates through ideas. in spoken word, the recipient hears the word, say car, and then mentally we translate the word car into the mental manifestation of the idea of what a car means to us. so with the spoken word, we communicate via representation and interpretation.
conversely, thought speak, doesn't have a language. andalite thought speak is supposed to be able to be understood by everyone because it communicates the ideas of what the speaker is trying to say, rather than actual words. so andalites communicate through ideas. a person "hearing" thought speak would essentially have to think backwards because they would receive the idea and then would have to turn it into a word if they wanted to turn it into actual english.
having said all that, it makes me think that perhaps andalite music might be a little more psychedelic. what if their music was all in your head? all they have to do it communicate the idea and feeling that listening to music creates and it's the equivalent to hearing it.
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But then, how can andalites understand english and speak it perfectly when in human morph? I know that they have translators but as far as i know they were never even mentioned till the hork bjair chronicles.
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kaa never really explained that. but i think we can safely assume it was that translator thing in their head. it would have complicated things a lot if ax could understand but not speak english