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), […]
Posts Tagged ‘minimalism’
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 »
2 cheers for lava lamps & Lego blocks
Posted in Music & soundscape, Philosophy, tagged lava lamps, minimalism, music, Ontology, epistemology on January 11, 2011 | 6 Comments »
Tim Morton seems not to have liked my comment suggesting that reality is a mix of stability and instability, and that stability is an achievement rather than a default position. The universe, I would say, is an achievement as well. His much-loved (?) lava lamps are achievements, as are Graham Harman‘s Lego blocks. They don’t […]