Curating The Week
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Curating The Week: On Musical Chills, Deep Listening, And Brian Eno
1. An article about why and how music gives us chills. “…the chemical that’s released during musical chills, dopamine, is one that is also acted on by things like cocaine or amphetamine or other intensely pleasurable experiences.” 2. An article about deep listening–not in a musical context but certainly applicable to one. “Avoid preconceived notions,… Continue reading
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Curating The Week: Crafting A Pop Hit, Laraaji, And New York Hardcore Music
1. An article and a mini documentary about how two DJ-producers and a famous singer collaborated to create a pop hit. “What you want is an earworm that you can literally listen to an hour or two in a row and not get bored of it.” 2. An interview with the musician Laraaji. “My music… Continue reading
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Curating The Week: On Audiophiles, Canadian Speech, And The Film Modulations
1. An article about the culture of audiophiles. “The old line about great hi-fi making it feel like the band’s in the room with you isn’t quite right. It doesn’t sound like live music: it sounds better. Clearer, more pure. The weirdest thing is that the music doesn’t appear to be coming out of the speakers:… Continue reading
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Curating The Week: On Stagefright, Jeff Porcaro’s Timing, And Futurism In New Dance Music
1. A New Yorker article about stagefright. “The crux, of course, was the invention of sound recording and then of film, in the late nineteenth century. These things did not create stagefright, but they fostered it, by enabling performers to do their work without having to appear in front of an audience.” 2. An article… Continue reading
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Curating The Week: Music-Related Stuff Online
1. An app based on Steve Reich’s “Clapping Music.” “Steve Reich’s Clapping Music is a free game that improves your rhythm by challenging you to play Steve Reich’s ground-breaking work–a piece of music performed entirely by clapping. Tap in time with the constantly shifting pattern, and progress through all of the variations.” 2. A 2011… Continue reading
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Curating The Week: Music-Related Stuff Online
1. A short documentary about the work of sound designers and editors. “The answer to all sound design is: storytelling…Putting together a world that will suck you in.” 2. An article about Chicago’s juke music scene. “The genre grew from speedy, repetitive ghetto house in the late 1990s and early 2000s, yet it also borrows… Continue reading
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Curating The Week: Music-Related Stuff Online
1. A short film about the American artist Agnes Martin with a soundtrack by UK electronic musician Actress. “You are what goes through your mind, whether you are aware of it or not. But if you can become aware of it and if you then can try to express it, then you are an… Continue reading
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Curating The Week: Music-Related Stuff Online
1. A conversation between electronic musician Robert Henke and musical instrument designer Tom Oberheim. Henke: “A lot of successful artists I admire know surprisingly little about technology, and this allows them to use the technology with innocence, but also with informed, artistic ideas. This is extremely powerful. This is not a working path because I… Continue reading
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Curating The Week: Music-Related Stuff Online
1. An article about a new way to play old recordings without touching them with a stylus. “The technique relies on a microscope to create images of the grooves in exquisite detail. A computer approximates–with great accuracy–the sounds that would have been created by a needle moving through those grooves.” 2. An article about modern… Continue reading
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Curating The Week: Music-Related Stuff Online
1. An article about the voice work of loopers. “Loopers are voice actors whose work begins after the show or film is shot and edited. Their job is to record what people in the background of a scene could be saying. Their dialogue is never really heard at full volume — and it’s mostly ad-libbed…Loopers… Continue reading
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