Monday, August 8 2011
‘Retromania’: You’d Throw It Against the Wall If You Weren’t So Immersed in It
Retromania is about the anxiety of influence; how our present moment is feeding into it, how it emerged framed as a historical inevitability, and how its necrotic collateral is any futurism that may have the audacity to disregard the past.
Tuesday, November 9 2010
R.I.P. Sony Walkman or, My Mixtape Confession
If you remember mixed tapes you received without the slightest pang of remorse, enthrallment or unforced sentimentality, either the relationship or the tape sucked.
Monday, July 12 2010
Play It Again, Please: Grappling with Repeated Album Listens in the iPod Age
An album is purchased (via in a store or online) and is quickly ripped to your iPod. Does this practice make it harder for an album to grow on a listener? Or is the iPod just forcing us to become more disciplined listeners?
Thursday, May 13 2010
Paranoid Android: Is Music the Opiate of the iPod-Owning Masses?
Wherein our curmudgeonly record shop owner realizes that his store with its bins full of vinyl was his own personal iPod long before the iPod was ever invented.
Monday, March 15 2010
Bone Flutes, Pianos, and iPods: Notes on Music, Technology, and Embodiment
From Paleolithic flutes, to pianos, to iPods, a central point emerges: just as the mind isn't free from the body, music isn't free from its material base.
Thursday, September 10 2009
