January 2013
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On Negative Achievement: The XX Perform In New York
“The creation of a style often begins with a negative achievement.” – Tracy Kidder and Richard Todd, Good Prose If you are a fan of musical minimalisms, atmospheric indie rock, and electronic beats, there was a lot to like about the xx’s poised and elegantly understated performance at Hammerstein Ballroom last week. The young Mercury… Continue reading
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A Question On Pop Musical Irritants
If you get annoyed by a pop song after just a few months of hearing it on TV and the radio, how do you think this music will age? Will you like it in ten years? Will it remind you of when you first heard it, conjuring vague feelings? Or will it become even more… Continue reading
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On The Rhythms Of Soccer And The Game Of Music
At home my wife and I watch a prodigious amount of English Premiere League soccer–that’s real football to the rest of the non-North American world. In earlier posts on this blog I have written about watching soccer and golf for their ambient sound potentials–the roar of the soccer fans, or the hushed-reverent tones of the… Continue reading
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Microthought: On Multisensory Sounds
Stereo sirens, stumbling man spoke strange tongue, greased air, frying sounds. Continue reading
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Observations On A Musician Playing Guitar
A tune beyond us as we are, Yet nothing changed by the blue guitar; Ourselves in the tune as if in space, Yet nothing changed, except the place Of things as they are and only the place As you play them, on the blue guitar, Placed, so, beyond the compass of change, Perceived in a… Continue reading
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