Earworm and Event

2022-01-14 Music

Author : Eldritch Priest
Release : 2022-01-14
Genre : Music
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Book Rating : 590/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Earworm and Event written by Eldritch Priest. This book was released on 2022-01-14. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Earworm and Event Eldritch Priest questions the nature of the imagination in contemporary culture through the phenomenon of the earworm: those reveries that hijack our attention, the shivers that run down our spines, and the songs that stick in our heads. Through a series of meditations on music, animal mentality, abstraction, and metaphor, Priest uses the earworm and the states of daydreaming, mind-wandering, and delusion it can produce to outline how music is something that is felt as thought rather than listened to. Priest presents Earworm and Event as a tête-bêche—two books bound together with each end meeting in the middle. Where Earworm theorizes the entanglement of thought and feeling, Event performs it. Throughout, Priest conceptualizes the earworm as an event that offers insight into not only the way human brains process musical experiences, but how abstractions and the imagination play key roles in the composition and expression of our contemporary social environments and more-than-human milieus. Unconventional and ambitious, Earworm and Event offers new ways to interrogate the convergence of thought, sound, and affect.

Earworm

2018-10

Author : Colin Varney
Release : 2018-10
Genre :
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Book Rating : 964/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Earworm written by Colin Varney. This book was released on 2018-10. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Earworm is a tale of grief, desire, infidelity and family secrets narrated bylove song. "Empty Fairground" is a hit from the nineties. Nicole wasconceived to it and now it dwells in her head - a living entity accessing herthoughts and dreams. When Nicole discovers her deceased father is not herbiological parent, certainties disintegrate and the song strives to separatefantasy from memory and myth from history, building towards an extraordinarycrescendo. Drenched in rhythm and the vividness of pop lyrics, "Earworm" explores thecomplexities of filial and romantic love, connecting us to our universalcommunion with music. Colin Varney is an entirely groovy new voice in Australianfiction." - DanielleWood, author The Alphabet ofLight and Dark.

Boring Formless Nonsense

2013-02-14 Music

Author : Eldritch Priest
Release : 2013-02-14
Genre : Music
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Book Rating : 08X/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Boring Formless Nonsense written by Eldritch Priest. This book was released on 2013-02-14. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Boring Formless Nonsense intervenes in an aesthetics of failure that has largely been delimited by the visual arts and its avant-garde legacies. It focuses on contemporary experimental composition in which failure rubs elbows with the categories of chance, noise, and obscurity. In these works we hear failure anew. We hear boredom, formlessness, and nonsense in a way that gives new purchase to aesthetic, philosophical, and ethical questions that falter in their negative capability. Reshaping current debates on failure as an aesthetic category, eldritch Priest shows failure to be a duplicitous concept that traffics in paradox and sustains the conditions for magical thinking and hyperstition. Framing recent experimental composition as a deviant kind of sound art, Priest explores how the affective and formal elements of post-Cagean music couples with contemporary culture's themes of depression, distraction, and disinformation to create an esoteric reality composed of counterfactuals and pseudonymous beings. Ambitious in content and experimental in its approach, Boring Formless Nonsense will challenge and fracture your views on failure, creativity, and experimental music.

Switched on Pop

2019-12-13 Music

Author : Nate Sloan
Release : 2019-12-13
Genre : Music
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Book Rating : 657/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Switched on Pop written by Nate Sloan. This book was released on 2019-12-13. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pop music surrounds us - in our cars, over supermarket speakers, even when we are laid out at the dentist - but how often do we really hear what's playing? Switched on Pop is the book based on the eponymous podcast that has been hailed by NPR, Rolling Stone, The Guardian, and Entertainment Weekly for its witty and accessible analysis of Top 40 hits. Through close studies of sixteen modern classics, musicologist Nate Sloan and songwriter Charlie Harding shift pop from the background to the foreground, illuminating the essential musical concepts behind two decades of chart-topping songs. In 1939, Aaron Copland published What to Listen for in Music, the bestseller that made classical music approachable for generations of listeners. Eighty years later, Nate and Charlie update Copland's idea for a new audience and repertoire: 21st century pop, from Britney to Beyoncé, Outkast to Kendrick Lamar. Despite the importance of pop music in contemporary culture, most discourse only revolves around lyrics and celebrity. Switched on Pop gives readers the tools they need to interpret our modern soundtrack. Each chapter investigates a different song and artist, revealing musical insights such as how a single melodic motif follows Taylor Swift through every genre that she samples, André 3000 uses metric manipulation to get listeners to "shake it like a Polaroid picture," or Luis Fonsi and Daddy Yankee create harmonic ambiguity in "Despacito" that mirrors the patterns of global migration. Replete with engaging discussions and eye-catching illustrations, Switched on Pop brings to life the musical qualities that catapult songs into the pop pantheon. Readers will find themselves listening to familiar tracks in new waysand not just those from the Top 40. The timeless concepts that Nate and Charlie define can be applied to any musical style. From fanatics to skeptics, teenagers to octogenarians, non-musicians to professional composers, every music lover will discover something ear-opening in Switched on Pop.

The Sharp Edges of Water

2019-01-08 Poetry

Author : Angelique Jamail
Release : 2019-01-08
Genre : Poetry
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Book Rating : 920/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book The Sharp Edges of Water written by Angelique Jamail. This book was released on 2019-01-08. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this collection of poems, the characters swerve between the rain-drenched, tree-lined, concrete plains of Houston and the voluptuous, dynamic terrain of Los Angeles. They face multiple realities, and though they're earnestly grounded, they sometimes swim in the waters of magic realism. Their story is both relatable and a little bit surreal.

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