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Arrows Of Attention: A Musical Phenomenology
A musical phenomenology: a writing that sings its analysis, generates its lexicon, and blooms its concepts from the sounds it encounters. Writing that follows the paths of melodies and rhythm cycles, feels the textures of sounds, connects the substance with the style. Writing that describes, evokes, conjures, summons, and elicits music’s affective presence. Writing that Continue reading
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Database: SG Lewis on Samplers
“Those old samplers…the audio quality would be degraded through dithering of the audio in the sample, in the sampler, or there’s a natural built-in bit crushing element to a lot of those samplers. Those distortion elements are introduced by feeding audio into a new piece of kit. So the next couple of [production] steps were Continue reading
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Ways Of Tonal Evolutions
(Image: Casey Horner) Listening to contemporary ambient music I notice that much of it is constructed from broad washes of sound, or what could be called tonal drones. Drones are sustained pitches that establish a mood, not a direction; they conjure a stasis, not forward movement. For many electronic music producers working in ambient’s orbit, Continue reading
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Resonant Thoughts: Merve Emre’s “Has Academia Ruined Literary Criticism?” (2023)
“Establishing a formal method of critical inquiry was in part an attempt to put literary studies on a par with the sciences, which were the chief models for the development of the professions in the university. Close reading branched out into many methods of reading—rhetorical reading for the deconstructionists, symptomatic reading for the Marxists, reparative Continue reading
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Resonant Thoughts: Arvo Pärt On Bell Sound
“If a single bell is struck, and we contemplate the nature of its sound– the Klang at impact, the spread of sound after this initial gesture, and then the lingering cloud of resonance–what we hear takes us to the heart of tintinnabuli. A finely wrought bell makes one of the most mysterious and creative sounds; Continue reading
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