Apr 18, 2021
Leaf house (genre of music inspired by House of Leaves)
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Leaf house (genre of music inspired by House of Leaves)
My Spotify Wrapped
I got "Fourth World" as my top genre lmao
I guess that kinda fits with that this blog has become: Urban (japanese) nostalgia, angst, and loneliness, ambient lo-fi and experimental music. Based on the (Fourth World) playlists I looked up on Spotify (which, Japan is a heavily globalized nation I'd argue, not really fitting into a definition of Fourth World as my initial research has brought me to believe, but go off I guess).
The only other thing I can really find is this Brian Eno/Jon Hassell album from 1980 that I may have listened to once or twice. (Here's a review from Wired by Richard Kadrey)
Anyway! Hi I'm back, and I'm posting again (mostly just reblogs for now) I might do a playlist or something since it's that time of year and I haven't done that in a while.
Dariacore, sigilkore, robloxcore, maplekore...SoundCloud artists have been obsessed with coining genres the last few years. We investigate.
Book party!
To celebrate the launch of the edited collection The Microgenre: A Quick Look at Small Culture, we will be hosting a book party at the MLA annual meeting in Seattle. Join us Thursday, January 9th, 7-9 pm at the Trace Seattle at the W Hotel. Hope to see you there!
Artists remember 12 musical movements that meant everything, then didn’t.
Over the past 15 years, the web’s vast wealth of information and shareable files has sparked novel, expressive forms, each its own rebellion against whatever else is dominating the airwaves and magazine covers of the time. But the internet has also sped up the process of hype and backlash, shortening our collective attention spans and forcing us to move on to the next thing with little ceremony. Often, it would feel like some new microgenre was over the second it got a name, if it ever really existed to begin with. But these specialized styles—including but not limited to the ones we’ve mapped out here—felt important when they happened. And they still do, like snapshots of a zeitgeist that’s being constantly redefined.
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