Debussy Dots: The Snow is Dancing is a fantastic visualization by Alexander Chen. It’s mesmerizing, and absolutely a lovely experience. I’m reminded of one of my favorite musical visualizations: Sonar. As I was looking over other musical visualizations I liked, I realized that I’ve mentioned Chen’s work on here a number of times. He’s also…
“My love, you’re the one I want to watch the ship go down with
The future can’t be real, I barely know how long a moment is
Unless we’re naked, getting high on the mattress
While the global market crashes”
The more I listen, the more impressed I am at the range of the song. It spans two-plus octaves, but never really feels like it’s moving that far or fast, as the song is so melodic you don’t really notice the distance being travelled.
I happened across Laura Marling recently on Spotify, and got taken in by her voice. I got hooked first by the bass on Soothing. But it was the above track, Wild Fire, that made me realize I needed to spend some time with this album.
I’ve had this song stuck in my head for a few days, and it’s not leaving. So in an attempt to exorcise it, I’m sharing it in the hopes that it will leave my ears and infect yours.
With that change, right on that word – the whole song takes on more of a somber tone. While the slower pace and Espe’s voice helps remove some of the sugar from the song, it’s that note, that shift on the phrase “come my way” that really made me look at this as an incredibly sad song.
I’m not clear what it is with this song, and with Faux… but they are perfect songs for me to work to. The rise and swell of the song, particularly when put on repeat, seem to sync up really well to my brain.
I’ve watched this video a few times now, and I’m still not sure I understand how Misko gets all these different sounds out of a single instrument.
This group is really quite phenomenal. I knew they were good live, but they sounded amazing. While I was happy to hear them in such an intimate setting, I couldn’t help but feel that they deserved to be better known, given how good they are.
Excited that Liz and I are going out to see Mipso perform on Wednesday, here in Chicago.
I don’t actively seek out their music, but man oh man do I love the videos that OK Go produces. Spotted this one today and I’ve watched it a few times, marveling at how they were able to time out some of these sequences.
It was described as a “difficult video to watch,” which in some ways is true. When I was focusing primarily on the woman in the video – it was tough to watch.
But then I started to shift my focus to the peripherals. I started to look past her, and at the things happening in the background.
I’ve found this song really pleasant to code to. It builds gradually, and swells near the end – but it’s never too distracting. There’s something about the pacing and the tempo of the build that seems to just click really well for my brain. The cadence of it all seems to help
“Feels like I’ll burst and explode any minute now,
for what heart can hold what is in it now?
The mess that we make, it will be glorious.
The mess that we make, just the two of us.”
There are some musicians that sound great on their albums, and then there are others who sound equally great in person. I’m always in awe of performers who are just as good, live.