Showing posts with label Music. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Music. Show all posts

Thursday, February 19, 2015


''This is a crime against the state''




''The history of the electric guitar illustrates that a technology can neither be separated from the cultural values prevalent at the time of its creation nor those cultural values later ascribed to it.''

From tinkerers to gods :The electric guitar and the social construction of gender (Monique Bourdage, 2007)

https://archive.org/details/BourdageMonique

Sunday, February 15, 2015


''À La Recherche Du Temps Perdu''



''..(A) quaterly newsletter dedicated to the academic study of the type of music labelled ''punk''.''

Punk Research  Newsletter (1984-85)

https://archive.org/details/PunkResearchVol.1No.1may1984

https://archive.org/details/PunkResearchVol.2No.1march1985


Saturday, February 7, 2015


''I've got a silver machine / It flies side ways thru' time...''



''As we experience a temporal flux of events our expectations of future events change. Such expectations seem to be central to our perception of affect in music, but we have little understanding of how expectations change as recent information is integrated. When music establishes a pitch centre (tonality), we rapidly learn to anticipate its continuation. What happens when anticipations are challenged by new events?''

Music Cognition as Mental Time Travel. (2013)

https://archive.org/details/pubmed-PMC3776194

Monday, January 26, 2015


''In order for music to free itself, it will have to pass over to the other side...''


''Music is known to alter people's ordinary experience of space and time. Not only does this challenge the concept of invariant space and time tacitly assumed in psychology but it may also help us understand how music works and how music can be understood as an embodied experience. Yet research about these alterations is in its infancy. This review is intended to delineate a future research agenda.''

Changes in the representation of space and time while listening to music (2013).

https://archive.org/details/pubmed-PMC373437
''High above the L.A. freeways, and the traffic's whine, 
Stands the well-known Galactronics branch of Yoyodyne...''



Company anthems were an important part of 1950s American corporate culture. Spooky.

Songs of the I.B.M.

https://archive.org/details/songs-of-the-ibm

I.B.M. music sound clips

http://www-03.ibm.com/ibm/history/exhibits/music/music_clips.html

Saturday, January 24, 2015


''Video Killed The Radio Star''



''A deconstruction of music videos that makes visible their aesthetic rules or grammar is necessary before an overall theoretical understanding is possible. Content-analytic studies usually divide music videos into two groups: "performance" and "concept" videos. Concept videos, in turn, can be subdivided into two different kinds: narrative dramatic videos and lyrical videos. Narrative videos tell a story, albeit with emotional overlay and expressive flair, while lyrical videos may be likened to imagist poetry in contrast to dramatic monologues.''

Music Video as Electronic Opera and Electronic Lyric (1987)

https://archive.org/details/ERIC_ED281248

Tuesday, January 20, 2015

"You know what your trouble is? You're the kind who always reads the handbook.''






Moog Minimoog Owner's Manual

https://archive.org/details/synthmanual-moog-minimoog-owners-manual

Tuesday, January 13, 2015

''Whisky Tango Romeo veintiuno...'' 

                                       


''Shortwave Numbers Stations are a perfect method of anonymous, one way communication. Spies located anywhere in the world can be communicated to by their masters via small, locally available, and unmodified Shortwave receivers. The encryption system used by Numbers Stations, known as a one time pad is unbreakable. Combine this with the fact that it is almost impossible to track down the message recipients once they are inserted into the enemy country, it becomes clear just how powerful the Numbers Station system is.''



The Conet Project (IRDIAL Records, 1997)

https://archive.org/details/ird059