Saturday, February 25, 2012
Chapman, Dale. “That Ill, Tight Sound”: Telepresence and Biopolitics in Post-Timbaland Rap Production. Journal of the Society for American Music (2008) Volume 2, Number 2, pp. 155–175. Chapman examines the impact that Timbaland has had on popular music production, and what his significance is to the broader culture. While Timbaland himself is no longer the [...]
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Also tagged dance, hip-hop, Internet, linkedin, missy elliot, pop, posthuman, production, technomusicology, timbaland
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Thursday, January 21, 2010
A little late but it took me this long to track down: Steve Dallas channels the King of Pop. Thanks Adam G for scanning this from his extensive Bloom County collection and sending it. Click for full size.
Filed in Dance, Key Musicians, Music
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Also tagged billie jean, bloom county, comics, dance, eighties, fan art, michael jackson, steve dallas, white people
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Kramer is the name my mom’s father’s parents gave at Ellis Island because they thought it they might have an easier time with it assimilation-wise than Garfinkel. In Eastern Europe, if you want a WASP-y sounding name, you usually choose something German rather than British. My mom’s wing of her extended family calls itself the [...]
Filed in Autobio, Emotion
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Also tagged america, Autobio, buddhism, confidence, family, fashion, george costanza, judaica, kramer, monkeysphere, nyc, obama, seinfeld, synths, tv
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See a followup post about female remixes of “A Milli” Lil Wayne and I have some differences of style and taste: about facial tattoos, about drinking cough syrup recreationally, about jewelry on one’s teeth. But we agree about music. He brags constantly that he’s the best rapper alive. I think he makes a pretty good [...]
Filed in Composition, Improvisation, Key Musicians, Music, Recording, Sampling
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Also tagged america, autotune, class, cole porter, comedy, computers, drum machines, Evolution, hip-hop, Improvisation, irony, kanye west, lil wayne, memes, michael jackson, minimalism, natalie portman, natural selection, Recording, recursion, remixes, Sampling, snl, Social Media, t-pain, white people
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See a followup post on the Gregorys’ breakout hit, the “Bed Intruder Song.” The Gregory Brothers (including a sister-in-law) are musicians here in Brooklyn who have a series of videos called Auto-tune The News. Here are a selection of their better episodes as of this writing.
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Also tagged audio editing, autotune, comedy, computers, Evolution, hip-hop, joe biden, katie couric, martin luther king jr, mashups, Music, Music Theory, news, Politics, pop, rnb, steven mithen, tv, youtube
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When you learned division in school, the teacher probably brushed off the issue of dividing by zero in one sentence: you can’t do it, moving on. You might feel like you got shortchanged by that explanation. Why not? What happens when you divide by zero?