music

I may have to update the scoring in this post. I went to see this over the weekend – too late as it happened, but I floaked it – and I have to say that it’s not the project of someone torying-out. Far too 1945-68 British reasonablepunk.

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(Or, imagine you had to make a Homo economicus. Other than money, what chemicals would you immediately look up in Angewandte Chemie?) So Dave from PR’s constituency chairman was found dead in a portaloo at Glastonbury. Who now remembers William Hague in Notting Hill? This made me think of something. There used to be a…

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This came up in my twitter feed recently. Charmingly 90s-ish, but I did like the point that it’s very difficult to get decent bass out of a mobile device/laptop/whatever, and this probably has consequences for the kind of music people will make with them. Come to think of it, there’s an interesting economic angle. The…

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Alliance Géostrategique is having a month on the theme of independence. Some thoughts: First of all, we’re constantly exhorted to act as individuals but also to be aware of interdependence. “Interdependence” seems to be the neoliberal mirror image of “solidarity” – rather than being a force that makes for positive liberty, it seems to be…

Read More declare independence. don’t let them do that to you!

John Band links to very likely the worst recording in the history of music, ever. Imagine that George Michael, many years after anyone cared, decided to do an impossibly portentous version of New Order True Faith ’94, through a vocoder (many years after everyone got sick of those), and worst of all, to not play…

Read More non-Thursday music link, on Thursday due to exceptional circumstances