“sound as a way of sense-making”
Sound Artist Lawrence English on the Power of Radical Listening From Observer.com Interview here How did you become interested in working with sound as a creative medium? When I…
Category: music
New York songs: Liza Minnelli, Carey Mulligan, Lou Reed, The Clash, Lang Lang
New York has been much celebrated in song. In recent years, these songs have tended towards the unpleasantly grandiose; New York as an arena of near-unlimited personal fulfillment and narcissistic…
George Steiner on music (from “Real Presences”)
The meanings of the meaning of music transcend. It has long been, and continues to be, the unwritten theology of those who lack or reject any formal creed. Or to…
Fred Neil
A while back I was listening to a good bit of Fred Neil. Neil gave Bob Dylan his first gig and wrote “Everybody’s Talkin’”: I suppose Harry Nilsson’s is more…
Fred Neil. The Dolphins, and the dolphins
Lately I’ve been listening to a good bit of Fred Neil. Neil gave Bob Dylan his first gig (he managed the daytime schedule at the folk club Cafe Wha?) and…
Crow Songs: Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Lou Reed, Rossini
Blogging about rain songs, I was faced with an embarrassment of riches, and left out many worthy numbers. For no particular reason except I like them, I decided to blog this…
Rain songs: Sinatra, The Go-Betweens, Linda Perhacs
It’s a rainy morning and with numbing literality I am going to post three songs with the word “rain” in the title. Three songs which, in different ways, capture something…
Séamus Sweeney 