A lot has been written about music and the philosophy of Gilles Deleuze: for instance, on Deleuze and music theory, on music after Deleuze, and on Deleuze’s “Thought-Music,” and there’ve been some valiant efforts to put Deleuze to music, like this one, this one, and this one, and several related to Deleuze and Guattari’s Thousand […]
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Musical process and reality
Posted in Music & soundscape, Process-relational thought, tagged Alfred North Whitehead, composition, Heliocentric Worlds, improvisatio, improvisation, jazz, music, process philosophy, Sun Ra, Whitehead on March 19, 2024 | 2 Comments »
R.i.p. Tom Verlaine (relationalism & earth jazz redux)
Posted in Music & soundscape, tagged Grateful Dead, improvisation, Marquee Moon, Miles Davis, musicology, object-oriented ontology, relationalism, television, Tom Verlaine on January 29, 2023 | Leave a Comment »
Television guitarist and songwriter Tom Verlaine has passed away. In his honor, I’m reposting something I wrote back in 2010, a version of which made it into Shadowing the Anthropocene. Much of it deals with the objects-versus-relations debate that was occupying the then very active “speculative realist” (“new materialist”) blogosphere. The first video captures Verlaine […]
A look at Ukrainian experimental music
Posted in Music & soundscape, tagged autobiography, EXperimental music, Kadaitcha, Radio, Russian invasion of Ukraine, Stalagmite Under a Naked Sky, The Moglass, Ukraine, Ukrainian music, Vapniaks, Vapniaky, Zavoloka on April 15, 2022 | 1 Comment »
I was interviewed last week by UC Santa Barbara music professor and KCSB DJ David Novak on his show Selectric Davyland. The hour-long interview offers a highly personal take on Ukrainian music since the 1980s; David called it a “Personal and Political History (and a Playlist) of Ukrainian Experimental Music.” It features an adventurous mix […]
The dogs of the universal image machine
Posted in Music & soundscape, Science & society, tagged CD Baby, copyright, Musicworks, Resurrected Fields, surveillance, technology, universal image machine, Yasuhiro Otani, YouTube on August 22, 2021 | 1 Comment »
I’ve written before of the ways that contemporary media, with their recording/archiving and modeling/projection functions, enable a simultaneous opening up of the past and the future, even as they leave us dependent on them so that our own capacities for memory and prognostication fail when our media fail. As we continue to build a universal […]
Camera as anaconda
Posted in Cinema, Eco-culture, Music & soundscape, tagged anaconda, animal cinema, animal studies, animals, Archie the Anaconda, Billie Eilish, camera movement, cinema studies, ecocinema, film theory, music videos, objectivation, power, predators, process-relational thought, sexual abuse, subjectivation on May 8, 2021 | Leave a Comment »
To say that Billie Eilish’s “Your Power” video is intended to get under your skin (as many online commenters have suggested) is understating things. First, there the topic of the song itself (which I won’t comment on). Then there’s the interspecies intimacy (which I also won’t comment on, except to say, I can’t imagine doing […]
The [Real]: on Rothko, music, & the Global Trends 2040 report
Posted in Anthropocene, Manifestos & auguries, Music & soundscape, tagged ambient music, Brian Eno, climate crisis, COVID-19, Global Trends 2040, hyper-events, hyperobjects, industrial ambient, Mark Rothko, Morton Feldman, National Intelligence Council, pandemic, Peter Gabriel, The Real, William Basinski on April 15, 2021 | Leave a Comment »
Fans of Mark Rothko’s color field paintings frequently comment on the spaciousness, immersiveness, and liminality of those works: the way you can stand in front of them and feel as if you are being bathed in some transcendent force that is irreducible to anything else. Great art is (supposed to be) like that: it simply […]
Ecologizing Radiohead
Posted in Eco-culture, Eco-theory, Music & soundscape, tagged Brad Osborn, Britney Spears, Daydreaming, ecological psychology, ecology of perception, ecomusicology, J. J. Gibson, James J. Gibson, music psychology, music theory, musicology, perceptual ecology, process-relational thought, Radiohead, Stockhausen, The Pyramid Song, Thom Yorke on January 21, 2021 | 2 Comments »
What better way to understand ecological perception than by applying it to a study of the music of Radiohead, right? Okay, I’ll explain. “Ecological perception” is not what you might think. (And it isn’t what I, in my writing, call “perceptual ecology.“) It is a psychological theory that studies the perception of an organism (such […]
Buddscape
Posted in Music & soundscape, tagged ambient music, Brian Eno, contemporary music, Harold Budd, Robin Guthrie, soundscape on December 10, 2020 | 2 Comments »
Harold Budd’s passing yesterday (from coronavirus complications) has inspired me to create a multichannel chamber of his music, which you can enter into and wander around in by clicking on the tabs below. Try them all at once, or mix channels at your leisure. His music, perhaps more than anyone’s, lends itself to this kind […]
On (not) being human
Posted in Media ecology, Music & soundscape, Spirit matter, tagged artificial intelligence, artificially generated faces, emotional intelligence, emotional politics, emotional practice, emotions, facial expression, fake people, Greta Thunberg, mirror neurons, neuropolitics on November 23, 2020 | 1 Comment »
The New York Times has published an article on AI-generated faces which strikes me as an informal litmus test of our humanity, or at least of neurotypical emotional response. Here’s how to work it. Scroll through the mega-composite image at the top of the article — do it slowly, then quickly, then varying your speed […]
Musical occasions
Posted in Music & soundscape, tagged Adrian Ivakhiv, choral musiic, composition, electroacoustic music, improvisation, minimalism, modernism, music, process-relational music, Stalagmite Under a Naked Sky, VA with Vax, Vapniaky on December 28, 2019 | 5 Comments »
Music is an occasional topic on this blog (as shown in the Soundscape category). It was my first university discipline and love (when I was an undergrad at York’s wonderfully eclectic Music Department), still figures in my scholarly work from time to time (as in my work on Cape Breton Island and the Chernobyl Zone), […]
Tangerine Reef
Posted in Eco-culture, Music & soundscape, tagged Animal Collective, coral reefs, Coral Videography, International Year of the Reef on January 28, 2019 | 3 Comments »
And here is Animal Collective’s beautiful International Year of the Reef collaboration with marine biology art-science duo Coral Morphologic, entitled Tangerine Reef: More on Coral Videography, “pioneers of avant-garde coral macro-videography,” on their web site.
Process and Reality
Posted in Music & soundscape, tagged Alfred North Whitehead, beer, Greensboro VT, Heldon, Hill Farmstead Brewery, Process and Reality, Richard Pinhas, Whitehead on January 28, 2019 | 2 Comments »
I’ve been trying to convince acclaimed northeast Vermont brewer Shaun Hill to add Whitehead’s Process and Reality to his Philosophical Series of ales, stouts, lambics, and porters, on the pretext that it was written down the road from the brewery. But also because Nietzsche, Foucault, Emerson, Thoreau, and Deleuze would appreciate his company. (Shaun says he […]
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