Some selected interesting reads.
The Shazam Effect (The Atlantic)
William Eggleston on the Music That Made Him a Photography Legend (Pitchfork)
How Smart Speakers Are Changing the Way We Listen to Music (Pitchfork)
‘Fake Artists’ Have Billions of Streams on Spotify. Is Sony Now Playing the Service at Its Own Game? (Rolling Stone)
Is Pandemic Brain Changing Your Taste in Music? You’re Not Alone (Vice)
Ragga Jungle/Jungle/D&B might be the #1 Champion sound but so many other genres like Reggae, Dancehall, Juke/Footwork, Dubstep, Breakcore and more are built around bass and the low end of the sound spectrum. So why do we love bass so much?
Punk may have invented the independent label but the rave scene, and in particular Jungle/D&B, took punks independence and a DIY ethic to the next level.
(more…)I remember discovering the sound of Jungle/D&B when I was a teenager, I thought it sounded like the future. It still does. There are plenty of Jungle/D&B tracks that sounds as fresh now as they did the day they were released which is probably because Jungle/D&B has always been a forward looking genre. That has never changed. The sound of Jungle/D&B is still developing and being pushed forward by artists/producers, DJ’s, and record labels.
Checkout 10 labels pushing drum’n’bass forwards in 2020. You might discover a new favorite record label.
“Do or do not, there is no try”
Yoda
So I’m choosing to do instead.
This blog is now a music blog.
(more…)This is likely to change over time as my ideas and thinking changes. But right now it is what it is.
“You have to look hard to see.”
– David Hockney
There are many ways of understanding why art is important. Understanding what art is for is one great way of understanding why art is so important.
Shooting The Past is a podcast presented by Presented by historian Dr Clare Wright that takes a fascinating look at Australia’s past through remarkable and intriguing photographs.
Also of interest is a talk, “‘A picture tells a thousand words’: but whose?”, that the CCP held to accompany an exhibition titled “An unorthodox flow of images” that was held in 2017. The talk’s main guest was Dr Clare Wright, and is followed by discussions by a number of other guests about their favourite work from the exhibition. The talk raises some interesting ideas that the guests have about photography and is well worth a listen.
The web can be a great place to find inspiration in the form of great art and artists but the signal to noise ratio, or the amount of quality information versus the amount of trash, can be quite high and it takes a lot of time to trawl through the trash to find the gems. I have way too much free time on my hands and have dug through the trash and found some great free art magazines.
Browsing the web for inspiration is like dumpster diving, you have to trawl through a bunch of trash to find the good stuff.