Here is a link to a fascinating 5-minute film on how records were made in 1937, starring Duke Ellington and his orchestra.
Category Archives: Text
Baby’s First Link to a Video Link
It’s the image of this happening at an academic conference that I can’t get out of my mind.
New book arrival
Mark J. Butler Unlocking the Groove: Rhythm, Meter and Musical Design in Electronic Dance Music.
Quiet Time
Apologies for the flurry of posts and then disappearing. It’s been an extremely busy time with talks and a pile of miscellanous reading (theses, dissertation chapters, journal submissions, tenure dossiers), punctuated by a number of domestic crises this week: our apartment flooded in two separate places and at two different times (the waters have been …
Too busy to blog?
Perhaps. In the meantime, here’s a short election editorial I did for Bad Subjects.
I give up
Every week during football we get a barrage of Telus ads featuring monkeys. But we can’t figure out what kind of monkeys they are. A quick google search yielded no information.
Poseur
I confess to guessing on a couple questions on the “How Canadian Are You?” quiz. Also I don’t like coffee but I knew that timbits and coffee had to be the right answer. You are 91% Canuck! You rock, you are an almighty Canadian through and through. You have proven your worthiness and have …