As much as I rail against the tyranny of Autotune, I confess that I secretly adore it — in certain contexts. It’s a clever tool for making new sonic textures or for twisting a singer’s voice into ways that are not physically possible. But if it’s used to make up for a singer’s lack of …
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Sonance
The latest album from Shara Worden’s project My Brightest Diamond is in my heavy rotation this week. Of the ten tracks on her release “This Is My Hand” (2014), the one that is really getting under my skin is “Resonance“. It’s a complex piece of work. The disparate musical and rhythmic elements phase in and …
The Last of FM
I dunno, but I think I’m done with Last.fm. It was neat, I guess, but after five years, I’ve determined that it’s just not useful to my life. Essentially, supported music players could be connected to your Last.fm profile and every song play is tracked (it’s called “scrobbling”). Ostensibly, it was a way to discover …
Angry Distance
I absolutely hate musicals. They’re always uncomfortable. Same as if someone is singing and they’re singing directly at me: I have no idea how to handle it. But after 13 years, I finally took the opportunity to rent the 2001 gender-bending musical “Hedwig and the Angry Inch”. Dammit, this is a good musical. Dammit. There’s …
Before, After
Damn you, Linklater. Another movie, another itch to travel Europe. Although, unlike Jesse, I don’t have a Celine to love, grow, and argue with. Nor the tenacity or warrior spirit to verbally spar. At least the difficult parts can get magically healed with humor — if only the spark of love was enough. Sometimes, I …