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Catching Signals: Notes On Junkie XL’s Film Scoring Videos
“Hello! This is Tom—Junkie XL—and welcome to Studio Time with Junkie XL, who else?” -Tom Holkenborg, aka Junkie XL Even as YouTube has become a vibrant, open-to-all marketplace for amateur music producers to show off their production workflows (a topic I have been writing about in some forthcoming essay collections), it’s not as often that Continue reading
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(Im)Perfect Congruence: On Dancing To Music
There’s a funny and almost disturbing video on YouTube that shows a couple apparently dancing to the angular beats of Autechre. The video is funny and strangely compelling because of its unlikely pairing. On the one hand, the video looks to be from the 1970s or 80s–some kind of European (Greek?) television program featuring a Continue reading
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On Imitation, Oral Tradition And Pleasure: Nicki Minaj’s Super Bass Travels
“That self-organizing living force is what we’re having to ride. What we’re doing with the web is making a very large-scale global organism that in a few decades or so we will be able to identify as an organism in every sense of the word.” – Kevin Kelly on the Technium One of the most Continue reading
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Digital Diets, Attention Spans and The Rhythms Of Learning
Is the Internet and all manner of digital media really doing something substantial to our consciousness, to how we think? Is my attention span not getting worse exactly but maybe becoming fractured? This is the subject of at least a few articles I’ve read lately, including this one in the Times which is part of Continue reading
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