{"id":3653,"date":"2011-04-23T08:34:16","date_gmt":"2011-04-23T13:34:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/?p=3653"},"modified":"2011-05-20T20:37:47","modified_gmt":"2011-05-21T01:37:47","slug":"music-of-the-turning-earth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/2011\/04\/23\/music-of-the-turning-earth\/","title":{"rendered":"Music of the turning earth&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s link dump is devoted to sound, earth, religion, language, and the creativity of friends&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>First the sounds. Here&#8217;s Science Friday&#8217;s  Earth Day episode  on the origins of music in <a href=\"http:\/\/integral-options.blogspot.com\/2011\/04\/npr-science-friday-listening-to-wild.html\">the Great Animal Orchestra<\/a>; and what American English sounds like to non-English speakers (hilarious):<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"500\" height=\"282\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/BZXcRqFmFa8?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p><!--more-->which seems loosely related both to recent findings about the <a href=\"http:\/\/archaicfragments.blogspot.com\/2011\/04\/origins-of-language.html\">origins of language<\/a> and to this piece of <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=2580\">Indo-European music<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Segue via a good review of <em>The Wire<\/em> editor Rob Young&#8217;s excellent <a href=\"http:\/\/fionnchu.blogspot.com\/2011\/04\/rob-youngs-electric-eden-book-review.html\">Electric Eden<\/a> (which Andrew at <a href=\"http:\/\/some-landscapes.blogspot.com\/2011\/04\/electric-eden.html\">Some Landscapes<\/a> has also been posting about) to <a href=\"http:\/\/listeningear.blogspot.com\/2011\/04\/earth-day-random-music.html\">Earth<\/a> itself:<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"500\" height=\"282\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/cxblsOjBdkc?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Follow that with some great articles in Fibreculture&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/burundi.sk\/monoskop\/log\/?p=1988\">Unnatural Ecologies<\/a> issues; Leon&#8217;s new book on <a href=\"http:\/\/plasticbodies.wordpress.com\/2011\/04\/19\/new-book-on-peirces-philosophy-of-nature\/\">C. S. Peirce and a Religious Metaphysics of Nature<\/a>; Antonio at Mediacology on <a href=\"http:\/\/mediacology.com\/2011\/04\/16\/ecomedia-parodies-ecological-media\/?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Mediacology+%28Mediacology%29&amp;utm_content=Google+Reader\">Ecomedia<\/a> and its corporate appropriation; Werner Herzog on his new film about the <a href=\"http:\/\/ecologywithoutnature.blogspot.com\/2011\/04\/neolithic-cave-werner-herzog-and.html\">Chauvet cave paintings<\/a> (and see Tim&#8217;s other recent posts on&#8230; well, everything).<\/p>\n<p>And end with some pieces on Earth Day and religion: from <a href=\"http:\/\/wildhunt.org\/blog\/2011\/04\/earth-day-4.html\">the Wild Hunt<\/a>, and a couple from A\/Theologies, Bron Taylor&#8217;s on fears of a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.religiondispatches.org\/archive\/atheologies\/4522\/debate_over_mother_earth%E2%80%99s_%E2%80%98rights%E2%80%99_stirs_fears_of_pagan_socialism\">pagan socialism<\/a> (which resonates with my own piece from a <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/2009\/04\/26\/chernobyl-may-day-the-revolution-of-risk-society\/\">couple of revolutions ago<\/a>), and Jeremy Biles&#8217; on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.religiondispatches.org\/archive\/atheologies\/4528\/the_scandal_of_the_cross\/\">Scandal of the Cross<\/a> (the disfiguring of Andres Serrano&#8217;s Piss Christ, which seems appropriate to comment on, on an Easter Saturday when the suffering Jesus is resting):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>At once pious and blasphemous, abject and elevated, defacing and defaced, transcendent and profane, Serrano\u2019s <em>Piss Christ<\/em> is a crucifixion that is itself continually resurrected.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Sacrilege to some, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=L9pAKdkJh-Y\">reaffirmation<\/a> of the power of that symbol (and\/or of art) to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.poppolitics.com\/archives\/2001\/04\/Holy-Art\">others.<\/a> A Latourian <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bruno-latour.fr\/articles\/article\/084.html\">iconoclash<\/a>, to say the least.<\/p>\n<p>Happy Easter to those of you who celebrate it. For me, growing up Eastern Rite Christian, Easter Saturday was always an enjoyable, low-key reprieve, full of anticipation, between the intensity (the ritualized solemnity) of Good Friday and the joyous event that was always Easter Sunday. The smattering of middle-of-the-night processions in the East European-heavy west side of Toronto is one thing I miss about it.<\/p>\n<p>What stays with you the longest is <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/2011\/02\/07\/25-random-things\/\">the music<\/a>. (I&#8217;ve been looking for digital versions of Ikon Records&#8217; Good Friday Vespers for a long time&#8230;)<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to all of the sources for these links, many of whom are either friends or now have become blog-friends&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s link dump is devoted to sound, earth, religion, language, and the creativity of friends&#8230; First the sounds. 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The song remains Jackson's biggest seller in the U.K, having sold over a million copies there -- more than either \"Thriller\"\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Eco-culture&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Eco-culture","link":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/category\/ecoculture\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/img.youtube.com\/vi\/f8muMo0fw_M\/0.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":8081,"url":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/2015\/03\/12\/a-7-year-musical-itch\/","url_meta":{"origin":3653,"position":1},"title":"A 7-year musical itch","author":"Adrian J Ivakhiv","date":"March 12, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"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\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Music &amp; soundscape&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Music &amp; soundscape","link":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/category\/music-soundscape\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/img.youtube.com\/vi\/LpHgG4jILa0\/0.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":1186,"url":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/2010\/01\/28\/clean-coal\/","url_meta":{"origin":3653,"position":2},"title":"&#8220;clean&#8221; coal","author":"Adrian J Ivakhiv","date":"January 28, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"Today is National Coal Ash Action Day, as MountainJustice.org reminds us -- see the information there on what you can do about it. Meanwhile, Climate Ground Zero reports on a fascinating case unfolding in West Virginia's coal country, where tree sitters have halted blasting of a mountaintop by Massey Coal\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Eco-culture&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Eco-culture","link":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/category\/ecoculture\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/img.youtube.com\/vi\/-bMO66ajBN0\/0.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":1297,"url":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/2010\/06\/20\/relationalism-earth-jazz-the-solstice\/","url_meta":{"origin":3653,"position":3},"title":"relationalism, earth jazz, &amp; the solstice","author":"Adrian J Ivakhiv","date":"June 20, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"If there's a musical demonstration of relationalism, and by extension (as Skholiast points out) of ecology, it's the kind of improvised music that the Dead are supposed to have excelled at (and occasionally did). The universe gives rise to many wondrous entities in its long history of spontaneity, relational responsiveness,\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Music &amp; soundscape&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Music &amp; soundscape","link":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/category\/music-soundscape\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/img.youtube.com\/vi\/2ysOU5EFhio\/0.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":8394,"url":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/2015\/09\/18\/eco-humanities-glossolalia\/","url_meta":{"origin":3653,"position":4},"title":"Eco-humanities glossolalia","author":"Adrian J Ivakhiv","date":"September 18, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"I've just come across the earliest outline I wrote for the course I'm currently teaching (in its third incarnation), \"Environmental Literature, Arts, and Media.\" The course has also turned into a book project I'm working on, which will be a thematic primer to the environmental arts and humanities.\u00a0Both course and\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Academe&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Academe","link":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/category\/academe\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":7754,"url":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/2014\/08\/18\/anthropocene-too-serious-for-postmodern-games\/","url_meta":{"origin":3653,"position":5},"title":"Anthropocene: Too serious for postmodern games","author":"Adrian J Ivakhiv","date":"August 18, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"The following is a guest post by Clive Hamilton, professor of public ethics at Charles Sturt University in Canberra, Australia. 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