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The PhD – the comprehensive exams

Tuesday, December 18th, 2007

So I'm diving straight into my comprehensives now. I'm building lists and checking them twice (and more). While building these reading lists is in many ways a very personal journey, I've decided to blog about the process so that I might get feedback from unexpected locales, harnessing the "wisdom of ...

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AOIR Music and Sound Panel – Oct 18, 2007

Friday, October 26th, 2007

This update is running quite late, but is still valuable, I think, in attempting to sustain the dialogue which was unfortunately given too short an interval at our panel on Music and Sound at the AOIR conference last week. As well, I particularly need to move among the "diaspora" of ...

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Technical Micropolitics and Musical Amateurs

Friday, October 19th, 2007

I presented at AOIR today as part of a panel on Music and Sound. Here's the PDF of my talk, complete with notes. I did this with an extreme headache, and a growing sense that I need to, as my friend and colleague Flo articulated it the other day, "coccoon" myself ...

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Rainbow Connections – or, It’s Beginning To And Back Again

Wednesday, October 10th, 2007

25 minutes early, my Radiohead download activation code is emailed to me. Ten years ago, I bought my first Radiohead CD (OK Computer). OK Computer comprised a significant portion of the soundtrack for a prolonged and significant breakup I was going through at the time, one ending a 7 year relationship ...

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Revisioning the Canon, for Kranks

Thursday, June 14th, 2007

Those who know me well know that with music, I'm a fussy eater. I can be extremely caustic (I recall trashing both Pat Metheny and Bob Dylan within the space of a single week some time ago on LJ, relishing every moment of silver-tongued venom I spat at their hapless ...

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Autoanalysis and Taste: Genius or totally off the deep end?

Sunday, June 10th, 2007

In today's NY Times there's a story about Andrew Kuo, super-fan extraordinaire. He's created some mind-boggling charts (pictured right, click the image for enlargement) of indie music appreciation indices (centering around a recent Bright Eyes concert-stalking binge), all of which stem from a very eccentric self-absorption with his own taste. ...

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