Less the Relevance
Posted on October 7, 2008
Just a quick post today to let ya’ll know that my partner, the lovely and supremely talented Laura Noel, has just made her first album available on Jamendo.com as a free download. check it out:
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Courtney Love on File Sharing
Posted on July 14, 2008
I suddenly find myself with a new respect for Courtney Love:
Today I want to talk about piracy and music. What is piracy? Piracy is the act of stealing an artist’s work without any intention of paying for it.
I’m not talking about Napster-type software.
I’m talking about major label recording contracts.
It’s the text from a speech she gave a while back, i don’t know how i missed this at the time. Some of her info is a bit dated – high quality mp3′s actually sound pretty good and nobody uses napster any more – but the basic points she makes about the music industry and the people who run it are solid.
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As Old as Song
Posted on July 9, 2008
Saw this article and thought it was pretty cool. check it out.
Ancient hunters painted the sections of their cave dwellings where singing, humming and music sounded best, a new study suggests.
Analyzing the famous, ochre-splashed cave walls of France, the most densely painted areas were also those with the best acoustics, the scientists found. Humming into some bends in the wall even produced sounds mimicking the animals painted there.
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Because Paleolithic humans had a deep connection with the melodic properties that helped them navigate in a cave, they likely celebrated the unique acoustics by singing in conjunction with their painting sessions.
“Why would the Paleolithic tribes choose preferably resonant locations for painting,” he said, “if it were not for making sounds and singing in some kind of ritual celebrations related with the pictures?”
The phenomenon isn’t limited to the interior of caves, etiher. Studies have been done at some outdoor Paleolithic sites in France and Finland, and the sound-painting connection is also strong, Reznikoff said.
Now that’s cool.
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