June 2010
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“Imperial Bedrooms…reads like an oncoming anxiety attack. That’s...”
– Bret Easton Ellis: The Most Musical Author?
Jun 30th
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Broken Bells, “Ghost Inside” A sci-fi short story disguised as a music video.
Jun 29th
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“Sampling James Brown is nothing like quoting Proust without attribution....”
– Richard Eskow at 3QuarksDaily, on Reality Hunger: A Manifesto. (hat tip: James Callan)
Jun 29th
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Jun 25th
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“Having vaulted from the fringes of pop culture into the mainstream after a newly...”
– Moonage Daydream: The Rock Album as Science Fiction
Jun 24th
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Jun 22nd
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“I want to do music for the subway— I want to make music so that when you...”
– James Murphy
Jun 21st
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Jun 21st
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Jun 21st
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Jun 21st
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Jun 21st
“The tangible relationship between music and emotion is no surprise to anyone,...”
– You have to listen to the audio samples of two-word phrases they analyzed for musical intervals. (via Scientific American) (via noiseforairports) (via ethanhein)
Jun 18th
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“Pay-what-you-can requires a change in how we calculate value. It establishes...”
– Kio Stark, It’s pay what you can, not pay what you want Just as applicable to music, of course.
Jun 18th
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Batuhan Bozkurt: “Laconicism is a collection of procedural and interactive sound compositions.” Anti-Gravity Bunny: “This is not a regular record. Batuhan Bozkurt made software, which in turn makes music, and your job is to fuck with it and make your own sounds, in essence creating a collaboration between you and Bozkurt.”
Jun 18th
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Jun 18th
“Don’t you miss those stickers you had to strip off to open a CD for the first...”
– The Golden Age of Hipper-Than-Thou CD Fetishization Begins Now
Jun 18th
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The Take-Away Shows: Every week, we invite an artist or a band to play in the streets, in a bar, a park, or even in a flat or in an elevator, and we film the whole session. Of course, what makes the beauty of it is all the little incidents, hesitations, and crazy stuff happening unexpectingly….Our goal is to try and capture instants, film the music just like it happens, without ...
Jun 16th
“Music provides a tool to study numerous aspects of neuroscience, from...”
– Music, the food of neuroscience.
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