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Psychology of Sound - The Impact of Sound on the Brain - 0 views

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    "Sound is capable of producing powerful reactions in the listener - whether it's a sudden cold sweat caused by a snake's warning hiss, or the uncontrollable grin as a favourite song from our youth comes on the radio. Scholars have been fascinated by the relationship between sound and emotional states since at least the time of the Ancient Greeks (whose wild Dionysian parties could be seen as the equivalent of a modern-day rave!), and modern neuroscience has led to some fascinating advances in our understanding of why our ears and emotions have such a strong bond."
john roach

Stereomodernism - DeForrest Brown Jr. - Triple Canopy - 0 views

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    "Stereomodernism" addresses the life, struggle, triumphs, and deaths of African Americans from 1619 to the present. The mix reinstates the original framing of techno as embodied aural history-and does so from a Black theoretical perspective, as a direct foil to Rainald Goetz's 1998 novel Rave.
john roach

Night Cubes: Revisiting UK Sound Art's Popular and Club Histories | | Flash Art - 0 views

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    "For over a year now, London has been a simmering site of dormant musical gatherings and suspended physical proximities, prompting me to wonder what's happened to the visceral, tactile energies through which collective musical formations gain so much of their social and emotional force. As Ben Assiter points out, the migration of electronic dance music online during the pandemic accelerated currents that were already underway with the ubiquity of livestream platforms like Boiler Room. With physical assembly prohibited, the dematerialization of collective musical experience gave rise to a whole new level of face-to-screen "participation," as solitary DJs began broadcasting live from empty clubs to bedroom audiences, who in turn performed "ironic dance floor interaction[s]" in the chat boxes."
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