All the Tired Horses
There is a cloudy line between noise and sound, routine and ritual.
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Posts Tagged: noise
Queen of That Universe
The realm of sound yields to me, sits at my feet. I can switch on. Or not.
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How to Keep Calm and Carry On
Your mind doesn’t play tricks on you. You play tricks on your mind.
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Minda Honey writes at Longreads on traveling to detox from whiteness and discovering there is nearly nowhere to escape. Good news, New Yorkers: apparently noise can be good for creativity. Susie Neilson looks at the good and the bad of noise pollution for Nautilus.
...moreThe Daily Struggle
Lord knows the world has changed since I wrote this talk, but when the world falls to pieces around us, especially when the world falls to pieces, writers will still sit down to write. As Beckett tells us, even when we have “no power to express” and “no desire to express,” we still have “the obligation […]
...moreAppreciating Silence
We can best discern how loud our lives feel in the moments when we try to discipline both real and virtual decibels. As life becomes more modern with ever-advancing technology, noise builds and builds to the point where silence is a luxury. How do we describe this new world we live in, and how can we […]
...moreWeekly Geekery
You subconsciously love car alarms and early morning construction. Nature on Mary Shelley and brains that “whizzed.” Well-aged whiskey sans barrel: researchers’ little secret. Save money! Eat salad! Click here for how! (Hint: science, not Internet scam.)
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Boy meets lichen, proves 150 years of science textbooks wrong. Want to improve your social skills? Try fiction, not speed-dating. How wasps gave us Shakespeare. In psychology, American undergrad = caveman. Birds lose sex appeal when singing over city noise. (Unlike Benedict Cumberbatch.)
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Total Noise and Complete Saturation
For as long as I can remember I’ve been interested, in a clinical way, in silence.
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Swinging Modern Sounds #71: A Michael Bay Film Eating Itself
“Love,” then is not to be taken lightly here. It is being engaged at full force, megaphonically.
...moreChordal Wheeling
There are geeks, there are music geeks, and then there are the chordal crusaders, the modal moradeurs. In their own words, “powerambient” band Chord summons the feeling “of a single note being rendered into an unsolvable riddle–a harmonic Gordian knot that creates an almost pastoral feel of being blinded by the sun.” At Brooklyn’s Issue […]
...moreI Want More Jesus: Noise Pop from Here to America
Too much revelation at your indie fest? Too much Jesus? Shut up, naysayer. I want more.
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