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Searches That Brought You Here
• 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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That Voice
The woman at the grocery checkout is the superstar of the place running on charm from Spanish to English inflected —How are you my dear?— moving accents offbeat, making thyme a sensible purchase that voice shape shifts and calibrates a thousand sensations, that voice bears gifts of depth and presence, that voice was randomly assigned Continue reading
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On Unconventional Measures: That “Selfie” Song
By conventional measures, “Selfie” by the DJ duo The Chainsmokers is a clichéd, threadbare, and annoying piece of music. But if you can endure it, it’s also a fascinating bit of meta-commentary on the rituals of nightlife and club culture circa 2014. The song enacts its stance through copious use of voice samples of a fictional Continue reading
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