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Smudged pencil.
Sometimes my notebook is metaphorical. I write down a bunch of words that are barely understandable, hoping to build up a meaningful list, but I forget some things and others simply vanish as the adjacent pages rub together, filtering down … Continue reading
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Tagged japanese, orthography
Time travel, cont.
A sunny day in Golden Gate Park, on my way to Art’s for the world’s best breakfast: Because process is sometimes just as important, the very few tools required to create such happiness:
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Tagged Music, time travel
A tribute to timpanis.
It’s a shame that the timpani isn’t used more outside of classical music. A well placed timpani can be extremely effective. For instance, Roy Orbison’s use of it in his famous song You Got It: To me, the timpani makes … Continue reading
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Tagged morphology, Music, orchestration, philology
Esoteric profitability.
I am obviously not prone to buying music but I’m honestly considering buying Ashtray Nagivations’ new release Cloud Come Cadaver. Why? Because there aren’t nearly enough people listening to this stuff to make it find-able online for free. I’ve tried … Continue reading
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Tagged file sharing, free art, Music
Mothers’ mother’s Mothers Day.
I’m pretty sure the title of this post could be paraphrased as the Mother’s Day of all the mothers that belong to all the mothers out there. A friend of mine just mentioned Mother’s Day to me through text and … Continue reading
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Tagged orthography, phonology
The process of breathing.
It may not be too obvious what’s going on in this music but all those sounds are coming from one person and mostly from that one person’s voice. She uses a loop station which allows her to record short bits … Continue reading
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Tagged Music, process
Preconceptual tracking of a primitive perceptual individuality.
That phrase is only vaguely intelligible to me even with context so I’m not gonna try to explain it. It comes from Recanati’s Deixis and Anaphora: The point, though, is pretty clear, and interesting. Apparently some five objects in your … Continue reading
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Tagged Music, noise, semantics
Asymmetry.
#4, from Stephen Neal’s Pragmatism and Binding: I’m increasingly convinced that the point of semantics is to prove that we have no idea what anyone else means by anything. Communication seems to be just coincidental and we’ve only convinced ourselves … Continue reading
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Tagged semantics
Eardrum knots.
From around 4 minutes in until the end, this track feels like it’s massaging your eardrums. It only works if you’re using headphones or have your speakers angled so that stereo sound actually sounds stereo. (Excuse the palindroming.) I imagine … Continue reading
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Tagged ambient, Music, new orleans
For Your Troubles.
Poetry is easy No one asks you to defend your nonsense A shield for your troubles: Skymanottersoakaimlessly Open as a book.
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Tagged phonology, poetry, semantics