Curating The Week
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Curating The Week: Music-Related Stuff Online
1. An article about how music can enhance the taste of wine and food. “We have found that people can experience 15% more pleasure if music matches the wine,” he said. “It is an exciting area: how soundscapes come together with taste to make the whole experience more enjoyable…It’s a kind of digital seasoning.” 2.… Continue reading
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Curating The Week: Music-Related Stuff Online
1. An article about a concert hall simulator that provides musicians with the experience of a virtual audience. “Practising is a very private thing. You don’t want anyone else to hear. But [with] the performance … you want to have the feeling of giving to the audience, and then [have] something coming back.” 2. An… Continue reading
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Curating The Week: Music-Related Stuff Online
1. An article by Hua Hsu in The New Yorker about global music influences in electronic music. “Future Brown’s stylistic promiscuity aspires to a future built on eclecticism and color rather than on hierarchy and canon, velocity and rhythm rather than sing-along harmonies and riffs.” 2. The music critic Paul Morley interviews composer Max Richter.… Continue reading
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Curating The Week: Music-Related Stuff Online
1. An article about the inspiration for a Max for Live device (software for use within Ableton Live) that injects realistic timing into multiple computer generated parts. “The timing of each individual note is dependent on every single note that both players had already played – a minor timing hiccup near the start of a piece… Continue reading
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Curating The Week: Music-Related Stuff On The Internet
1. A brief interview with the composer Steve Reich who talks about contemporary music. “A lot of people who use computers are gonna come up with junk; most of the people who use notation came up with junk, too. But there are the Brian Enos – people who have imagination for a new way of working… Continue reading
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Curating The Week: Music-Related Stuff On The Internet
1. A question-answer about Spotify’s shuffle algorithm. “Working at Spotify has taught me a few things, one of them being is that it’s really, really, really hard to build something that a human will genuinely feel is shuffled. People still constantly come up to me at parties and tell me that the shuffle functionality is… Continue reading
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Curating The Week: Music-Related Stuff On The Internet
1. An article by Alex Ross on the music and career of Bjork, and the idea of musical genre. “Stream, delta, border, boundary: we keep reaching for geographical metaphors as we speak of genres and we sense that the real landscape of musical activity ultimately has little to do with our tidy delineations, or indeed… Continue reading
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Curating The Week: Music-Related Stuff On The Internet
1. An article by David Pogue about Neil Young’s PonoPlayer. “The results surprised even me. Whether wearing earbuds or expensive headphones, my test subjects usually thought that the iPhone playback sounded better than the Pono Player.” 2. An article about Mickey Guyton and black women in country music. “The song is lyrically substantive in an era of eye-roll-inducing “sweet little somethin’” trivialities.… Continue reading
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Curating The Week: Music-Related Stuff On The Internet
1. A video by Steven Feld of Nii Otoo Annan in Ghana playing bell patterns while listening to the late night rhythms of common toads. “Using the toad rhythms as a stimulus and calculator, he enumerates dozens of time patterns on the bells while creating an exciting array of sound colors.” 2. A video about… Continue reading
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Curating The Week: Music-Related Stuff On The Internet
1. An interview with poetry critic Henlen Vendler. “I believe that poems are a score for performance by the reader, and that you become the speaking voice. You don’t read or overhear the voice in the poem, you are the voice in the poem. You stand behind the words and speak them as your own—so that… Continue reading
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