Curating The Week
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Curating The Week: Music-Related Stuff On The Internet
1. An article about the shortcomings of academic writing. “Most academic writing, in contrast, is a blend of two styles. The first is practical style, in which the writer’s goal is to satisfy a reader’s need for a particular kind of information, and the form of the communication falls into a fixed template, such as… Continue reading
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Curating The Week: Music-Related Stuff On The Internet
1. An interview with composer Phil Kline on “Unsilent Night,” his open-ended 1992 piece for mobile boomboxes (and now, iPhones). “What was most pleasantly surprising, when we hit ‘play’, and I heard the sound, was that it combined with the fabric and the soundscape of the city. It was like an elemental DNA connection. They… Continue reading
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Curating The Week: Music-Related Stuff On The Internet
1. An article about Spotify. “We’re not in the music space, we’re in the moment space.” 2. An article about field recording. “The idea of objective recording in the field, thankfully now problematised and rejected, still lingers though like a spectre haunting the ways many listeners consider recordings.” 3. An article about how we read in the digital age.… Continue reading
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Curating The Week: Music-Related Stuff On The Internet
1. A must-see video in which the jazz pianist Bill Evans discusses how to approach making music. “They would rather approximate the entire problem than take a small part of it and be real and true about it.” 2. A video in which the Turkish musician Gorkem Sen demonstrates his remarkable-sounding acoustic instrument. “The vibrations from… Continue reading
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Curating The Week: Music-Related Stuff On The Internet
1. An article about editing in electronic music. “For me, making an edit is like going on vacation. It’s a way of getting out of your head, your usual creative process, and just doing something totally different.” 2. A brief article about why we listen to sad music when we’re sad. “Listeners identify with the… Continue reading
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Curating The Week: Music-Related Stuff On The Internet
1. An article about fade-outs in popular music. “…the fade-out allows a song to live on beyond its physical self; the listener senses that it never truly ends.” 2. A video of a musician using an Elektron Octarack to improvise electronic music. 3. A video about a drummer who imitates machine-made patterns. “People started to program things that… Continue reading
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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,… Continue reading
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Curating The Week: Music-Related Stuff On The Internet
1. A video in which the Kronos quartet explains how its members communicate with one another in performance. “The way you play your note is deeply affected by the way the person right before you plays their note.” “What I should really be practicing in anything I do is…flexibility.” 2. A passage from Sean Wilsey’s… Continue reading
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Curating The Week: Music-Related Stuff On The Internet
1. A video showing soba noodle master Tatsuru Rai at work. The rhythms are amazing! 2. An article about about why you and your friends might like the same music. “Whether you turn it up loudly and sing along, wearing the music’s emotion like garlands of your own inner feelings, or just use it as… Continue reading
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Curating The Week: Music-Related Stuff On The Internet
1. An article about the resurgence of vinyl records. “People still want objects with personality…”If it’s just a nostalgic or hipster-elitest thing, where does that leave us in 10 years? It might be the last gasp of an expiring culture before we all get sucked into the [digital] cloud.” 2. An article about the relationship… Continue reading
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