“…An alternative model of a subject’s encounter with reverberation might draw upon the account of music and subjectivity advanced by … More
Month: April 2009
Cold War Maestros
“Mood music on record […] functioned as Muzak’s id. Muzak was confined mostly to modertate tempo arrangements with few if … More
Serpents & Birds
“As filtered through Horace and the power of Roman literary institutions, Aristotelian notions of genre provided the very foundation of … More
Mr. Ballard, He Say No
“I thought the whole problem SF faced was that its consciousness, critically speaking, had been raised to wholly inappropriate heights-the … More
Cue The ‘Scrapers
The world is a fake and there are good reasons to believe it has been a set up from the … More
Nostalgia for the Future
“Space music can […] be best regarded as an outgrowth of easy-listening that is even further removed from the musical … More
Speculative Geography
“[Code 46] Production Designer Mark Tildesley pieced together a “creative geography” for the film. A scene might be made up … More