December 2008
21 posts
Things I wrote down while working on a paper and...
soundbites daily show
critical art ensemble
de structure
appropriation
com back to money son
WatchI’m sure this has made the rounds on the internet by now but I’ve got to post it anyway
An essay in quotations and footnotes
Kira Hall and Beth Daniels’s 1992; Caldas-Coulthard 1995; Patthey-Chavez & Youmans 1992; Talbot 1995.
“categories like butch and femme were not copies of a more originary heterosexuality, but they showed how the so called originals, men and women within the heterosexual frame, are similarly constructed, performatively established”
For one even the most rebellious musicians are generally...
“A fiscal conservative is someone who cares about money more than people.”
– Bill Hoynes in my Class, Culture, Power seminar today
Cover of a Joanna Newsom song I recorded after...
I think I recorded this song a year ago
I’m reading a speech Coretta Scott King gave after the death of her husband, and I think most of it is still incredibly relevant.
“My husband always saw the problem of racism and poverty here at home and militarism abroad as two sides of the same coin. In fact, it is even very clear that our policy at home is to try to solve social problems through military means, just as we have...
Super short audio piece I did a couple weeks ago...
Class, Music, Poughkeepsie
I just went back and reread an article by Moholy-Nagy that was essentially arguing for the use of the phonograph as an instrument of production rather than reproduction. He hoped in doing this to open up a new variety of sounds and return music making to the composer by taking it out of the hands of what he called the “amateurish reproductive talents” of the performer.
I didn’t...
