funboring.com - The Music Issue

EMP Paper, as per below

dc — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 21:42:31 -0600

Last week I gave a paper at the Experience Music Project Pop Conference in Seattle. Wow, it was my 7th presentation at the conference, and each time I inch towards what I am interested in doing and being as a thinker about music. The directions below might be some indication - my paper on laptop use among music writers/scholars involved an interactive laptop performance element, which about 10 people did while I was speaking. With that going, my paper being read, and a number of slides presenting information from a surveymonkey-based online survey I conducted, I was attempting to create some small part of the affective experience of multimedia thinking, while at the same time calling attention to the enfleshed world that was "the wisdom of crowds" in the audience.

EMP PAPER

dc — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 13:50:33 -0600

Hello Thanks for being in my laptop brigade.

There are three things

CUE: what you pay attention for
ACTION: what you do when you are supposed to
STOP ACTION: when to stop

OKAY LETS BEGIN

to merely be there...

dc — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 14:58:28 -0700

Off to merely be there, to completely be there.

(apologies for the lame video, but love the song)

Monster's political statement

dc — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 10:52:48 -0700

On Yes We Can Has:

American Boy

dc — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 22:45:19 -0600

Jetset, weekend getaway shopping trip, stop off to play the sold out show – it's a narrative of two fabulous cosmopolitan lives set to electro pop synths on Estelle's "American Boy," which has been floating through my head endlessly in the past few days. Whereas Ladytron or Annie go breathy robo-girl to such pads, Estelle's neo-soul melisma, rasp on more dense syllables, and exploration of a static story through phrasing shows her a nuanced vocal talent that goes beyond the songs Euro-cool. She takes this "American boy" phrase and develops it – unlike Winehouse, whose repetition tends to incorporate the same vocal performance each time. Zzz. That Kanye is maybe said boy is amusing – as if he would be a weekend fling.

CFP: Sound in Circulation: Technologies, histories, methods, and practices

dc — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 11:43:24 -0600

[note: I'm the coordinator for this conference! Email me if you have questions!]

Rock Camp 2008 WPIX interview

dc — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 09:56:57 -0600

Spot the difference: Russian tanks in 1968, 2008

dc — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 00:13:56 -0600

Have just returned from Prague to read this amazingly ignorant quote from our outgoing SoS about the mess in Georgia:

"This is not 1968 and the invasion of Czechoslovakia where Russia can threaten a neighbor, occupy a capital, overthrow a government and get away with it. Things have changed."

Iron Maiden in Prague

dc — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 05:49:15 -0600

Was invited last minute with some friends to see Iron Maiden at Eden Stadion here in Prague.

Besides having the worst sound of any live stadium show I've ever seen, the concert was most excellent. A giant Pharoah's head split open to release evil-eyed Eddie over the band, shredding in all their elder statesmen glory. 35,000 people turned "Run to the Hills" into a mantra. The whole crowd wore their best, oldest Maiden shirt. Jeans. Long hair, short hair. Fireworks inside. Singing on the trams afterward, as if the whole world were for metal fans.

Who Knew Utopia: Prague's Brussels Dream Exhibit

dc — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 11:14:28 -0600

Radio silence over. Here are photos from the Brussel Dream exhibit put on here at the National Library in Prague:

The main sculpture of the Fair:

The legendary Xenakis Phillips Pavillion:

Czechoslovak consumer goods in the 1950s: