Curating The Week
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Curating The Week: Brian Eno’s Peel Lecture, Low Bit Recordings, And J.S. Bach’s Crab Canon
1. Brian Eno gives the Peel Lecture on the BBC. “Art is everything you don’t have to do…What are we doing when we make art and when we consume it?” 2. An article about learning to appreciate low bit rates on recordings. “Songs ripped from CDs, uploaded to streaming sites, shared via P2P, and burned… Continue reading
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Curating The Week: On Field Recording, Insect Communication, And A Conversation With Matthew Dear And Jad Abumrad
1. An article about field recording. “Broadly, field recording can be summarised as a diverse set of practices concerned with recording sound from atmospheric, hydrophonic, geophonic, electro-magnetic and other sources. It is a sprawling pursuit, but resolves toward an interest in creating and transmitting an impression of audition in time. As field recording, in its… Continue reading
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Curating The Week: On Editing, Sound And Brain Evolution, And Classical Music As Tonic
1. Another essential article by John McPhee about editing and cutting material. “The creativity lies in what you choose to write about, how you go about doing it, the arrangement through which you present things, the skill and the touch with which you describe people and succeed in developing them as characters, the rhythms of… Continue reading
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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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