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[grid::ritual] Sounds in Social Space: The Contemporary Chamber Music Concert
Luckily the topic for this month’s grid blogging exercise is ‘ritual’ – it fits into what I?ve been thinking and writing about for the last couple of years – my masters thesis is a study of Brisbane?s contemporary chamber music scene as a subculture. A fundamental principle behind what I?ve been doing is that music…
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8 Days to Go
I haven’t been blogging as much as I’d like for the last few days, but I have a good reason – I’m officially submitting my Masters thesis on 20/01/04, which is only 8 days away. I’m sure this will seem very exciting once it is printed, bound and submitted (mmmm…beer), but at the moment I…
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Body as Machine
Came across a fantastic Fritz Kahn image called Man as Industrial Palace at city of sound. The image comes from the Dream Anatomy Exhibition at the US National Library of Medicine. In the early 20th century, Fritz Kahn produced a succession of books on the inner workings of the human body, using visual metaphors drawn…
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The Pleasures of Production II
Damn you, antipopper, for pulling out the term “prosumer” before I had even discovered it: Apple?s announcement of GarageBand today was interesting ? it?s bundled with all new Macs from this month onward! There are concerns that Apple?s treading on third party developers? toes, but the emphasis of Apple?s ever broadening iLife suite spans the…
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Buffy/LOTR mashup
This is wonderful: Once More with Hobbits: A Lord of the Rings and Buffy the Vampire Slayer Musical Adventure
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Australian Blog Awards
Apparently, there is going to be an Australian Blog Awards. Nominations close on the 9th of January.
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Digitising Vinyl
The NY Times wants you to know how to rip your vinyl records.
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Hip Hop and the Appropriation of the “Other”
Friday Night Fishfry Forever has been thinking about the politics of appropriation in hip hop, prompted by Timbaland & Magoo’s release Indian Flute. Of course, Western art music composers have always “stolen” from exotic others (their own peasant classes, gypsies, or the “orient”). In recent times, the issue was discussed at length in relation to…
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Back Up your Blog
Here’s why. Which reminds me, I’m about due to back this one up again…but I’m sure I can put it off until tomorrow… 😉
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Blogroll Roundup
I’ve just added a few new blogs to my blogroll, and I decided I should attempt to annotate at least these new listings. Via Jill/txt I found Jon Hoem’s Diablog, a PhD blog on personal publishing, education, and the technologies that go with all that. Quite interested in following this one, as some of the…