How Music Works

History and culture can’t really be preserved by technology alone.

he said that the way we think and view the world changed as a result. In an acoustic universe one senses essence, whereas in a visual universe one sees categories and hierarchies. He claims that in a visual universe one begins to think in a linear fashion, one thing following another along a timeline, rather than everything existing right now, ever

The disenfranchised and invisible could be heard with this new machine.

In the long run there is a greater value for humanity in empowering folks to make and create than there is in teaching them the canon of great works.

All of these associations will construct a network, a personal web, a cladogram that extends from each song and will encompass myriad narratives. In a neurological analogy, we’re not our individual neurons, but the connections they’ve created between themselves based on our experiences. Music is the same: it’s not isolated bits of information, but

the West, how things are organized is more important than what those things are.

Noémie began with an exercise I’ve never forgotten. It consisted of four simple rules: 1. Improvise moving to the music and come up with an eight-count phrase. (In dance, a phrase is a short series of moves that can be repeated.) 2. When you find a phrase you like, loop (repeat) it. 3. When you see someone else with a stronger phrase, copy it. 4. W

I’d done was move the songs to a new context. Because I performed them more energetically than the standard folk artist might present his own material, people listened, or maybe they were just stunned at the audacity of a precocious teenager.

white nerdy guy trying to be smooth and black is a terrible thing to behold.