music/sound/noise
Sublime Frequencies’ Ethnopsychedelic Montages
December 12, 2006
Marcus Boon
Marcus Boon explores the healing of traditional music.
9/11 Never Happened, President Bush Wouldn’t Let It: Bob Dylan Replies to Henri Bergson
December 12, 2006
Francis F. Seeburger
From event to non-event. Frank Seeburger deconstructs 9/11.
Above Us Only Sky: On Camus, U2, Lennon, Rock, and Rilke
March 17, 2005
Tim Keane
Tim Keane on rock'n'roll awakenings and the lyrical existentialism of U2 (St Patrick's Day Special, 2005)
White Noise/White Heat, or Why the Postmodern Turn in Rock Music Led to Nothing but Road
May 24, 2004
Larry McCaffery
Larry McCaffery reframes his 1989 essay on the "postmodern turn" in rock'n'roll music.
The Language of Music and Sound
October 1, 2002
Olivia Block
Against the notion that music is the most abstract of art forms, Olivia Block thinks of music as a language with its own vocabulary of sounds, patterns, rhythms, notes. On the day of a performance in Kyoto, Japan, these reflections alter Block's sense of her own language, English, deconstructed by Japanese advertisements, tee-shirts, "American" candy-bar wrappers, and text-cell phones.