Here’s a neat essay on negative space and phantom swing in Simone Dinnerstein’s interpretations of Bach. The essay is a probably a little too intricate and difficult, but the sound clips are invaluable and really drive home the point. Compare that first sound clip from French Suite #5 to this.
Continuing my “things that look or sound like other things” expose.
Falling asleep last night, I tried to explain to Erin that the quiet section of “Circus” is totally the same as the “I Think She Knows” interlude by Justin Timberlake.
Britney (Go to 1:40 in):
Justin (Go to 0:40 in):
You’re welcome.
Man, pop culture just keeps getting weirder.
Came across Chairlift’s new video for “Evident Utensil” a few days ago:
Then just now, I see that Kanye West has a new video:
Autotune and digital compression settings are to what the Fairlight and gated reverb were in the 1980’s. Kind of embarrassing to look back on, but at least [...]
I’ve been completely surrounded by classical music lately, but there’s always room for Prefab Sprout. You can blame this band for my taste in keyboard sounds. They made digital synthesizers classy.
I’ve been “in the lab” more lately!
Self Portraits with Men
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Rachell Sumpter
Aten, Apollo and Amor, 2009
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