searches that brought you here
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Searches That Brought You Here: Nils Frahm, David Hockney, and J. Dilla
• Nils Frahm Delay. This search brought you to my post about the music of Nils Frahm. I wrote: “The album alternates between intimate solo piano work that is perhaps Frahm’s signature quietudes sound, and more expansive (and long) pieces built upon rolling electronic keyboard arpeggios swirling in delay-effected, rhythm deluges.” • Hockney perspective. This Continue reading
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Searches That Brought You Here: Jason Mraz, Ray Hudson, Tricia Tunstall
• Jason Mraz why is he singing reggae. In a post on Mraz’s song, “I’m Yours” I write: “It’s easy to think of reggae music as ‘laid back’ due to its easy tempo, effortless groove, and sense of cool. Perhaps it’s this laid back cool that Mraz chose to gesture with in his hit song? Continue reading
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Searches That Brought You Here: Nassim Taleb, David Abram, Walter Percy
• Thomas, I’m curious what your take is on Taleb. This search brought you to my post on the musical applications of some of the ideas from Nassim Taleb’s book Antifragile. I wrote: “Tinkering is a process of trial and error that allows one to make many small mistakes or incur small losses. The mistakes Continue reading
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• Russell Hartenberger Steve Reich. This search brought you to my post on Hartenberger’s stellar book, Performance Practice in the Music Of Steve Reich. In my post I wrote: “As I read Performance Practice I was struck by the similarities between its flow and the gradual unfolding of Reich’s music. The smooth surface of Hartenberger’s Continue reading
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Searches That Brought You Here: LEGO, Victor Wooten, Stewie Griffin
• LEGO nothing commercial. This search brought you to my post on the music used in a Lego commercial. I wrote: “The music also conjures feeling through that piano sound. For a long time now, the piano has been the ultimate symbol of the middle-class home and of having the financial means, time, and space Continue reading
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• What is the frequency spectrum of a hip hop kick. This search brought you to my 2012 post on bass frequency-heavy Beats By Dre headphones. What I wrote still seems to apply to why people wear them: “How to explain the popularity of the Beats? One explanation is that our bass-heavy musics–hip hop and Continue reading
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On Web Searches That Brought You Here: A.R. Ammons, Rihanna, Quadraphonic Sound
• a poem is a walk summary. This search query found my post on A.R. Ammons’ magnificent essay on the phenomenology of poetry. Ammons’ observations on poetry apply equally to music: “What we want to see a poem do is to become itself, to reach as nearly perfect a state of self-direction and self-responsibility as can Continue reading
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Searches That Brought You Here
• “Poets wear sombreros.” This search is a reference to a line in one of my favorite Wallace Stevens poems, “Six Significant Landscapes” (1916). The line–which actually reads “rationalists would wear sombreros”–appears at the end of the sixth and final stanza: “Rationalists, wearing square hats, Think, in square rooms, Looking at the floor, Looking at the Continue reading
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