The recent social media meme listing 10 concerts people have attended accompanied by one they didn’t (“find the lie!”) has incited me to complete a list that started out as a “50th anniversary of the concept album” brainstorm over drinks one night last year. The question here is a little different: What are the most formative and […]
Posts Tagged ‘ecomusicology’
Greatest albums of the LP era
Posted in SoundScape, tagged aesthetics, album era, best albums, Bitches Brew, Bob Dylan, Can, Captain Beefheart, ecocritique, ecomusicology, Eno and Byrne, Funkadelic, Henry Cow, Incredible String Band, Magma, Miles Davis, music, musicology, process-relational theory, Radiohead, rock music, Talk Talk on May 8, 2017 | 8 Comments »
World Listening Day
Posted in EcoCulture, SoundScape, tagged acoustic ecology, ecomusicology, global hum, soundscape, soundscape ecology, World Listening Day on July 18, 2016 | 3 Comments »
Today is World Listening Day, a global event held annually to Celebrate the listening practices of the world and the ecology of its acoustic environments; Raise awareness about the growing number of individual and group efforts that creatively explore Acoustic Ecology based on the pioneering efforts of the World Soundscape Project, World Forum for Acoustic […]
A 7-year musical itch
Posted in SoundScape, tagged 1960s, 1968, Art Ensemble of Chicago, Captain Beefheart, cultural change, David Ingram, ecocriticism, ecomusicology, Incredible String Band, jazz, Magma, Miles Davis, music, psychedelia, rock on March 12, 2015 | 5 Comments »
One of my pet musicological theories is that the years 1967-74 were the most creative 7-year period in the history of musical humanity. Why those years? The social and technological revolutions of the 1960s — civil rights, the women’s movement, the counterculture and anti-Vietnam War movements, the sudden unifying singularity of television and mass (and […]
[Circle with an X through it]
Posted in SoundScape, tagged alchemy, Circle X, ecomusicology, music, No Wave, post-rock on March 8, 2015 | 4 Comments »
It’s been a while since I’ve posted anything about music here. But as I’ve gotten thinking and writing about it again, under the “ecomusicology” rubric, expect more of it on this blog. It’s a satisfying return for me (I studied music theory, composition, and performance as an undergrad and continued it semi-professionally for a little while afterward). This […]
Upcoming: ecomusics, climate change culture, etc.
Posted in SoundScape, tagged climate culture, eco-arts, ecomusic, ecomusicology, ecopoetics, environmental humanities, Latour, petroculture on September 30, 2014 | 1 Comment »
I am about to travel to Asheville, North Carolina, for the Ecomusics and Ecomusicologies conference, to be held from Thursday through Monday at the University of North Carolina Asheville. The international conference, which has become an annual event (it met previously in Brisbane, Australia, and in New Orleans), brings together theorists and researchers with performers and practitioners. Panels on topics including “musical […]
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