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What is the future of reading?
No learned process is more firmly embedded in our culture as an agent of information transfer than reading, yet its subtle pleasures and necessary disciplines seem overwhelmed by today’s sustained orgasm of visual media. Many modern readers participate enthusiastically in the democracy of publishing, but have little patience for extended excursions into long narrative texts. [...]
Elevator Music?
Interesting edition of GompArts, Will Gompertz’s column for the BBC, on a recreation of Martin Creed’s Work No 409 at the Southbank Center in London. The setting is an elevator and the work is a piece for vocalists whose voices rise as the elevator ascends and descends as it falls. Creed became well-known after winning [...]
Extending the reach of the graphic novel
Asterios Polyp (Pantheon), the latest graphic novel by David Mazzucchelli is garnering excellent reviews and plaudits for taking the graphic novel into more firmly literary and adult territory. AND it just won the inaugural award in the graphic novel category of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize: Mazzucchelli’s monolith is a beautifully executed love story, [...]
Somali Rap and Radio (@ History is made at night)
Reposted from History is made at night From Waayaha Cusub (from Reuters Nairobi, 9 April 2010): For centuries, Somalis used poetry and songs to pass protest messages to powerful rulers they were too afraid to confront directly. Now, some young Somalis are using rap to speak out against Islamists who they say are using religion [...]
Tanya Tagaq — Crossing Genres & “Living Outside the Box”
Few artists cross genre boundaries as freely and seemingly effortlessly as Tanya Tagaq. Labeling what she does as Inuit throat singing inadequately describes what she does. Never easy listening, Tanya takes the listener “outside the box” of her or his expectations. In an interview in January 2010, Tanya discussed her work and her hope that [...]
Exploring the boundary between music & sound – 1:1
In Noise: The Political Economy of Music (1985), Jacque Attali wrote about the socially constructed and historically changing boundaries between music and noise. Brilliant, provocative but I think there is one missing component in Attali’s approach: the distinction between music and sound. It is outside the frame of the questions Attali was exploring at the [...]
Conference on Change and Continuity in the art of record production (reposted from IASPM)
Change and Continuity: transformations, innovations and tensions in the art of record production April 15th, 2010 · ARP 2010 Call For Papers The Sixth Annual Art of Record Production Conference will be hosted by Bob Davis and Justin Morey at Leeds Metropolitan University on December 3rd – 5th 2010 The theme of the conference is [...]
