Posts by david douglas
This American Life
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Bill Frisell is Filed Under Guitar Gods
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It's true. My record store (it's not mine i just frequently and uncontrollably find myself in it all the time) files Bill Frisell under a section called "guitar gods". And deservedly so. I haven't been able to stop listening to him lately, particularly the East/West live record he put a few years ago. It's so inventive and clever and funny and he can play the guitar so incredibly well yet half
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This is Your Brain on Music
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I'm in the middle of this book by Daniel Levitin called "This is your brain on Music". So far it's an elegant examination of the brain's processes in perceiving music. Some of it is pretty technical - a conversation about frequencies of harmonics/overtones and some other sophisticated music theory shouldn't drag the dedicated reader down too much. Anyway, I thought it appropriate to talk about
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