Yet another third-party melody in The Nutcracker?
Think of the scene in Nutcracker where all the guests go to bed, and in particular the tune in the bass that repeats and fragments until everyone’s gone. Then listen…
How to sync voice memos from your iPhone
The Voice Memos app on the iPhone is one of its most useful features, but for maybe a year, it’s proved impossible to get voice recordings from my iPhone and…
Multi-tasking, phones & phenomenology
I never expected to see four fixations of mine (multi-tasking, the dangers of driving while phoning, phenomenology, and dance) come together in a single scholarly article, but today’s the day.…
Of flutter echo, pectoriloquy, music and badminton
There’s been a strange synchronicity between my reading, work and social lives this week. Last night, my badminton partner – a sound engineer – dropped the racket cases on the…
The perils of video
Two recent conversations have caused me to remember an interview between Christopher Hampson & his long-term notator Caroline Palmer about his ballet Canciones that I transcribed and posted on the…
New choreomusicology article
Music, dance and the total art work: choreomusicology in theory and practice is an article just out by Paul Mason in Research in Dance Education that pretty much sums up…