r beny
I think I first came across the music of Austin Cairns (AKA r beny) on Soundcloud, where he has a page you should check...
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Penguin Café
Another music post… Nearly thirty years ago now I bought a CD on pure impulse, knowing almost nothing about the...
Nils Frahm
A few years ago the German pianist/composer/producer Nils Frahm fell out of bed and broke his thumb. As he later...
On Sleep
For the last month, almost every night, I have listened to Max Richter’s Sleep. I have some things to say about it:...
art as industrial lubricant
Holy cow, does Nick Carr pin this one to the wall. Google says, “At any moment in your day, Google Play Music has...
articulation
Sviatoslav Richter When I learned to play the guitar, many years ago, I developed a near-obsession with the musical...
The Genealogy of "Carol Brown": An Intertextual Reading of Parodic-Travestying Song
The Flight of the Conchords’ “Carol Brown (Choir of Ex-Girlfriends)” is an exemplary case study in the...
holes in the fabric
One of the oddest moments of my youth came soon after I bought the LP pictured above. I ran out to get it after I heard...
on Bach
Paul Elie’s Reinventing Bach and John Eliot Gardiner’s Bach: Music in the Castle of Heaven are, as...
Tallis in Bloomsbury
Yesterday afternoon I was at the British Museum, wandering through the Enlightenment Gallery. I had been there a while...