Adventures of a Shoegaze Cellist
I’ve been thinking a lot about musical dynamics lately, since my teacher has been asking me to think about the natural decay of a bowed sound and the combination of “tension/release”.
I’ve been reading “Casals and the Art of Interpretation” lately. If you haven’t heard of it, I highly recommend it. Pablo Casals was [...]
This was posted on GuitarGeek today: A thesis on My Bloody Valentine’s Loveless.
I haven’t taken a look at it yet, but the abstract shows it traces the origins of shoegazer bands and talks about some of the reasons why MBV is “one one of the most important bands in music history”.
I plan on writing a [...]
A very interesting New Scientist article on visualizing music and harmony. Link to Article.
Basically, the researcher, Dmitri Tymoczko, has devised an interesting way to visualize chord progressions. I’m not sure I completely understand it, but it appears that the visualization method exposes why certain chord progressions in Chopin’s music that have baffled music theorists [...]
