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Pandora’s Last box of musical delights

Posted in Media ecology, Music & soundscape, tagged , on February 6, 2009 | 2 Comments »

I’ve been getting into music networking/streaming radio sites Last.fm and Pandora.com and thinking about how they and related forms of social and artistic networking relate to the ideas this blog is exploring. Google can search for words, but not (yet) for snippets of musical melody, harmonic progressions, jazz solos, visual images. But once these are […]

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more musical colors

Posted in Music & soundscape, tagged on January 19, 2009 | 1 Comment »

After writing about Jon Hassell’s “coffee coloured” global music of the future, I was intrigued to find out that Timothy Morton, author of “Ecology Without Nature,” has been writing about the ecological implications (or something like it) of Just Intonation versus Equal Temperament. For those unaware of the fine details of musical tuning, Just Intonation […]

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music as coffee and as philosophy

Posted in Music & soundscape, tagged on January 15, 2009 | 1 Comment »

I just came across this interesting tribute Brian Eno had written to trumpeter and experimental composer Jon Hassell, which gets at a few very deleuzian and immanentist notions: about music as “embodied philosophy”, and Hassell’s idea of a “coffee coloured music of the future” that reflects “a globalised world constantly integrating and hybridising, where differences […]

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