The process of mining - digging deep into the earth to find an essential material - dates back at least…
Far too often, people tend to compartmentalize and localize matters of concern. However, such an approach minimizes the true scale…
[Editor’s Note: We are excited to have Anthony Dean-Harris join us again for our year-end lists. Anthony is a longtime…
In pieces reviewing a year past, writers often try to find a few narratives and blanketly apply them. The problem…
In the late 1850s, two decades before Thomas Edison’s phonograph, French inventor Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville created the first sound…
The albums we collectively felt were the best of 2024 (technically from Thanksgiving 2023 to Thanksgiving 2024) show a beautiful…
Western literature has long noted the disconnection between perception and reality. In 1175, French monk Alain de Lille "Do not…
We continue our conversation with Fred Frith (read part one here) with a focus on his work with homemade instruments,…
When first learning about music, students are often taught to classify instruments by their sound. In the abstract, this basic…
Far too often, history is perceived through a lens of minimizing the problems of the present. According to George Santayana,…
