August 2017
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Two Keys
The thing to do says the artist, is to begin anywhere— so get going and make something up. That’s how it starts. But there are two keys to ongoingness. The first key is withholding judgment about your beginning, going and making. The second key is moving it forward by asking “Why not this?” over and… Continue reading
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Willy-Nilly Listening
Though it may not be the most accurate way to describe what I mean, willy-nilly listening captures the random element of how I often encounter music as it accompanies other things. It’s overheard in that loud car that zooms past, it’s background for those TV shows, it’s keeping strangers on the subway at bay by filling headphones, it’s… Continue reading
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Resonant Thoughts: Robert Barry’s “The Music Of The Future”
“There is a specific temporality to social media. It is a time of perpetual manufactured crisis, in which we are constantly being prodded, reminded, and cajoled into updating, clicking our approval or disapproval, or merely checking in and registering our presence.” “But if social media constructs its own time, what kind of music would be… Continue reading
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On Overhearing: Audible Portable Music
Is this a thing? Here and there in the city I’ve been noticing people walking and biking around with bluetooth speakers or their smartphones hidden in their backpacks, tucked in their pockets, or dangling from their belts, playing music. It’s like a mobile party of one. Yesterday, on an otherwise quiet street, I did… Continue reading
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Resonant Thoughts: On Dominic Pettman’s “Sonic Intimacy”
“An interesting pedagogic exercise in sonic economics: identify and attend to the most prominent voices of capital. At the time of this writing, candidates might be Rupert Murdoch, Donald Trump, Christine Lagarde, Kanye West, Taylor Swift, Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk, and so on. Toward the other end of the spectrum: a humming child laborer in… Continue reading
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