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...care about their bleep-blooping in general? And two: what’s the point of a live electronica album, besides pointing out the performance’s inherent irony? (Yeah, we get it: you’re two humans making “live” robot music. That’s funny.) With regard to the first question: because they’re popular and they’ve affected popular culture. Daft Punk has been bringing electro to the mainstream for the last ten years with their largely inoffensive and sometimes-boring dance beats...
...stands out for its guest lecturer this week. Geri Allen, an award-winning pianist and composer, is one of the most prominent female musicians in jazz today. Allen is finishing up a week-long residency at Harvard consisting of educational discussions, performances, and hands-on practice. The Music Department originally invited her to participate in the lecture with funding from the Blodgett Distinguished Artists’ Series, but the performer turned out to be in high demand. “Everyone was interested in her being here,” says Music Department Chair Ingrid Monson, who also teaches Literature...
...come to Smell-O-Vision.” Hinkle says he’d like to make the experience an annual occurence, presenting a variety of films that lend themselves to aromatic enjoyment.“The idea is that if the sing-along ‘Sound of Music,’ ‘Rocky Horror Picture Film,’ and John Waters had a baby, this is what it would be like,” says Dickerson. “Maybe.”—Staff writer Beryl C.D. Lipton can be reached...
...album “Sawdust,” assails the listener with disjointed melodies and varied vocals. It gets better with each listen and should eventually win over those who are disaffected by their newfound gloom. Set in an abandoned house, the video immediately fits the dark and disturbing music. Half-lit figures and faces shrouded in mist create an unnatural, drugged-out feeling, making the whole thing feels like a séance. Killers frontman Brandon Flowers, wanders around seemingly deserted rooms and communes with the rest of the band. He looks pretty messed up, an impression that?...
...don’t need to be a rocket scientist to know that music is a wonderful thing. But being a neuroscientist might help, at least according to Oliver Sacks. Sacks, it’s true, is no ordinary scientist, and his latest collection of essays, “Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain,” is not simply a dry scientific exploration of the connection between neurology and music, as we might expect from other scientists-turned-writers. Rather, it is an original, elegantly crafted, and inspiring investigation of the distinctly human obsession with all things...