Wednesday, January 4, 2006

New Musical Experiences New Musical Experiences. At City of Sound, Dan Hill has posted a transcript (and slides) from a talk he gave on New Musical Experiences at The Future of Music Seminar in Helsinki. All over the map (in a good way), but dealing primarily with the loss of metadata ("aka contextual information around music") in mp3 players (compared to vinyl and CD packaging), ironic because the Web provides so much of it. So the physical experience of vinyl (and its related media) afforded a close connection of music context and music experience. The record player delivered a user interface which was both flexible and expressive, and crucially meant a direct engagement with contextual information explicit and implicit. Explicitly, sleeves were constructed to carry vast swathes of information around the music; implicitly, the grooves in the record conveyed information about the length of track, the number of tracks per side and so on, even the sound itself if you were obsessive enough. The needle-drop method of previewing music - bumping the needle across the record from track to track, or within sections of a piece - provided real control over sampling the music contained therein. Comparatively, with today's music experience environment, we see a shift... [datacloud] 9:21:49 PM

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Pictures from Winter Wonderland 2005 Chicago Pictures from Winter Wonderland 2005 Chicago. We've received another gallery of pics from Winter Wonderland 2005 Chicago from frequent contributor Andre Popov. This party took place on December 17, 2005 in Chicago (read more about it here). The party featured some great DJs and looked like a ton of fun - yet another reason for us to miss our hometown Chicago! Check out the gallery here. [Grooveeffect - An Urban Style, Music, and Events Guide] 8:10:07 PM

Resonance Resonance: A Life of Music, Physics, and Faith. Vanderbilt physics professor Norman Tolk is passionate about music, physics and faith. [Physics Org] 9:26:29 AM

A Few Words on Hearing Loss Pete Townshend warns about earphones and ipods etc. I'm pretty much in the same camp. Mediaburn is known for podcasting, among other things. I listen to most podcasts on my computer through speakers and a subwoofer. Woof. I like space, acoustics, air - room, baby. I was never a huge fan of the walkman, discman, ipod way of music. It's OK but I usually sit and listen or listen and dance. Many people in young age groups don't have a lot of their own space, so they create their personal space with earphones and go mobile. From a straight musical standpoint, it's not as strong for me. "I sing my song to the wide open spaces. I sing my heart out to the infinite sea." - P. Townshend - Editor G. 9:09:13 AM