Music – Doshiyo

Great happy J-Pop sound: Perfume

Today we covered J-Pop in class. I spent a long time discussing the impact of postwar American sound, tracing Martin

28 Apr

Poignant and explicatory as ever, Roland Kelts’ new article at 3AM magazine called “Soft Power, Hard Truths:

25 Oct

Ok, first up, Kraftwerk’s “Das Model” or “The Model” [HTML1] The lyrics: She’s a model

16 Jul

I cannot help but post about this guy. He makes up a bunch of loops on FL Studio. Then he improvs with one of two keyboards.

21 May

Music

[HTML1] I know this is not about Japanese culture, but there are a few nods to some Japanese composers. I finished working on

08 Apr

I went to the Ukiyo-e exhibit at the Library of Congress in Washington, DC in December of 2001 with some of the other

09 Jul

Music

I got up this morning with Harold Melvin’s “Wake Up Everybody” in my head. There was a PSA when I was

02 Jun

I tend to say that I hate winter…it’s just so cold and dead. But I do have SOME good things to say about it

19 Jan

Music

I was recently listening to Ji-Yoen Choi’s solo organ recording, where she plays the Reddel Organ at Valparaiso’s

17 Dec

Music

I just read this at Ultrasonic Scattershot, a blog about uncommon music by Bill Stachour. This guy’s comments are spot

17 Dec