I’d been meaning for a while to write something about music criticism, and the increasing role of bloggers and online communities in its changing face. Completely fortuitously, a bunch of stuff has popped up in the last couple of weeks: Firstly, a chatter post on NewMusicBox by Alexandra Gardner on the merits of newspaper reviews [...]
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Crrritic II – distance and dialogue
Posted by robertdahm on January 28, 2011
http://soundisgrammar.wordpress.com/2011/01/28/crrritic-ii-distance-and-dialogue/
Computer games and Art
Film critic Roger Ebert has come out again, in response to a TED talk by game designer Kellee Santiago, with a declaration that computer games can never be art. At least, not in the lifetime of any gamer currently alive. This is the TED talk he was reponding to: Now, to give Ebert his due, [...]
Posted by robertdahm on April 26, 2010
http://soundisgrammar.wordpress.com/2010/04/26/computer-games-and-art/
SiG kind of hearts Lawrence Lessig
Posted on Boing Boing, this excellent 20min video in which Lawrence Lessig talks about conservatives, Wikipedia, libertarians, Disney, remix culture and, of course, copyright.
Posted by robertdahm on March 9, 2010
http://soundisgrammar.wordpress.com/2010/03/09/sig-kind-of-hearts-lawrence-lessig/
Ridiculous
Techdirt reports on a fairly disturbing new development in the world of patent lawsuits. Would I be right in thinking the possibility of doing something like this is a relatively recent development? Or is this simply the result of an exponential curve that started over a hundred years ago? Certainly, the emergence of Big Content [...]
Posted by robertdahm on March 3, 2010
http://soundisgrammar.wordpress.com/2010/03/03/ridiculous/
Book review: Sounding postmodernism
David Bennett’s Sounding postmodernism (published by the Australian Music Centre) is an attempt to look at Australian composition through the lens of a modern/postmodern dichotomy. Despite the understanding of these particular terms being highly contestable in a musical context (both are very highly politicised, and the claiming of these terms by particular aesthetic/ideological camps renders [...]
Posted by robertdahm on August 29, 2009
http://soundisgrammar.wordpress.com/2009/08/29/book-review-sounding-postmodernism/
