Curating The Week
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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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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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