May 2007

May 15, 2007

I haven’t been listening to much rock these days; any desire to listen to rock is entirely satiated by the occasional game of Guitar Hero. It’s the first video game I’ve been really fascinated by in about fifteen years. A game so bananas it spawned its own academic conference. I usually play on “Medium” level [...]

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May 7, 2007

I’ve been thinking a lot about music and technology, and trying to figure out how to merge my interests in electronic music with my longstanding interest in cognitive neuroscience. I’ve been reading and re-reading all kinds of books lately–”The Audible Past: Cultural Origins of Sound Reproduction” by Jonathan Sterne, R. Murray Schafer’s “The Soundscape”; “The [...]

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May 7, 2007

Simon has a new anthology out, which you can get here, complete with snappy cover. I haven’t read it yet, but Blissed Out is one of my all-time top reads and I’m sure this collection will be too.

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