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the bubbling up
Richard Powers on the blindness of (1950s) American high culture to American music puts me in mind of De Certeau’s “bubbling up” of creativity: …this country had a music – spectacularly reinventing itself every three years, the bastard of chanted hymns, spirit hollers, cabin songs, field calls and coded escape plans, funeral rowdiness gathered by […]
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Wish they had a vacancy for a back scrubber…
How good does the programme for The Smiths symposium look? Still jealous.
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this is not (only) music consumption
I’m feeling a bit serious about music today. This is the christmas playlist I put together on a whim yesterday morning, when I woke up and realised I had free rein over the construction of christmas day for the first time in years. Which, thank god, got me thinking again about the ways in which […]
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Why Pamper Life’s Complexities? A Symposium on the Smiths
How I wish I could find an excuse to go to this…but I haven’t got one. I guess I’ll be left behind and sour…I wonder if they have a vacancy for a back scrubber? Manchester Institute of Popular Culture Manchester Metropolitan University April 8th and 9th 2005 The Smiths have had a singular impact on […]
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Farewell to Johnny Ramone
RIP Johnny. That is, Revel in Punk. Ouch, that’s lame.
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Now that’s what I call quite good
Finally, I’m happy to have stumbled across these two excellent music blogs recently: The rest is noise (thanks things magazine), and aworks (on American contemporary classical music).
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thesis
I’ve finally gotten around to submitting my Masters thesis for permanent binding. It’s now online for your reading pleasure. If you find typos, don’t tell me! But any other feedback or comments would be hugely appreciated. Here’s the abstract: High Culture as Subculture: Brisbane’s Contemporary Chamber Music Scene The aim of the dissertation is to […]
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liquid architecture
Australia’s suavest soundart festival/collective, liquid architecture, has a suitably suave new website, including sound and video, news, articles and interviews.
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sound toys
way fun ear candy: sound toys
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Remix-a-licious
At Horizon 0, my new favourite online journal (at least for the next five minutes) is an evocative piece on the forms and future of remix culture. Samples from the Heap: Notes on Recycling the Detritus of a Remixed Culture by Bernard Schutze: Mix, mix again, remix: copyleft, cut ‘n’ paste, digital jumble, cross-fade, dub, […]