Tag: Music Industry
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Phase Transition
Welcome to 2025, where the music industry has achieved something genuinely unprecedented in the annals of human cultural production: it has successfully replaced its primary product with its own publicity apparatus. This is not hyperbole. This is not metaphor. This is the actual material condition of our present moment, and it’s magnificent in its sheer…
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Intraclass Warfare
In contemporary capitalism, we observe a recurring phenomenon in which one faction of the professional-managerial class (PMC) sacrifices another sector within its own class, ostensibly in the name of progress, accessibility, or efficiency. This process, which we might term sacrificial disruption, serves two simultaneous functions: first, it gains ideological legitimacy from below (by appealing to…
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Buying the Dip
Writing music right now is buying the zeitgeist dip. Well, sir, this whole music business? It’s a greasy spoon on a heartbreak highway. It’s like peddlin’ snake oil down at a carnival fire. You gotta hawk your wares while the rubes are rubin’ their eyes clear of smoke and wonderin’ if that bearded lady really…
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JAZZ CONTRAFACTS AND REHARMONIZATION: A CREATIVE APPROACH WITH ERIC O’DONNELL
Ric Amurrio Jun 19 MUSIC IN PHASE SPACE EPISODE 35 Coltrane’s notebook showing his reharmonization Fifth House “Creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.” Albert Einstein Creative inspiration reveals itself through the diligent study of previous generations and the mastery of established skills. Schools of thinking must be studied, styles are to be imitated, and techniques…
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ANTICIPATION: KING GIZZARD AND THE LIZARD WIZARD
Ric AmurrioMay 15 MUSIC IN PHASE SPACE EPISODE 33 How Your Favorite Song Starts to Irritate You Music gives pleasure because your mind keeps predicting what comes next,” writes Loretta Graziano Breuning. And it’s simple: each correct prediction triggers dopamine. If the music is unfamiliar, you don’t get the chemical. When it is somewhat familiar — you feel as…
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Aristotle’s Frets: The human condition is a function of what machines cannot not do
Throughout human history, economic behavior has been largely defined by the notion of rival goods induced scarcity, which posits that resources are finite and individuals must compete for them. This concept has become so deeply ingrained in our collective mindset that it has become a persistent habit of the mind, creating an intellectual inertia that…