Curating The Week: Music-Related Stuff On The Internet

1. An article about a search for a folk music in Greece.

“There is a belief among the people of Epirus that their music is deeply curative: that it reverses certain strains of heartache and expands certain joys, that it’s a panacea for certain existential and physiological ailments. Chaldoupis sees what is broken, he says, and begins the fixing. In Epirus, this is not some sort of reconstituted folk ritual, trotted out for curious, authenticity-starved interlopers, like the luaus staged in the manicured side yards of sprawling Hawaiian resorts. It is merely the way people think about music.”

2. An article about the Rorschach inkblot test. Isn’t it interesting that there is no analogous associational test for musical sound?

“…psychologists have frequently used the various aspects of people’s responses (e.g., inkblot focus area) to make judgment calls about broad personality traits.”

3. An article about a man who spent a year walking across the United States while taking a self-imposed vow of silence.

“As far as my silence goes, it was a gut feeling that it would be a beautiful action and a beautiful experience, but I went into it very blindly.”