Author Archives: Paul Carr

Martyn Bennett: Underrated and a great example of Genre Synecdoche.

Posted on March 19, 2012 by Paul Carr

A week or so ago, I posted about a few different ways that music can convey meaning – using the terminology Sonic Anaphone, Kinetic Anaphone, Tactile Anaphone and Genre Synecdoche (From Phil Tagg). Well, over the last few days, I … Continue reading →

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Destuctive Editing: Can ‘Pain’ be Indoctrinated in Music and Meaning transfered to a listener?

Posted on March 17, 2012 by Paul Carr

Here is a beautiful and graphic account of how painful circumstances resulted in a particular creative practice in music production. I would love to hear this piece by Adrian Benavides. As a musicologist, one of the things I challenge my … Continue reading →

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The Relationships Between Higher Education and the Live Music Industry in Wales: A Critical Analysis (working title)

Posted on March 15, 2012 by Paul Carr

As indicated in reports such as Building New Business Strategies for the Music Industry in Wales (ap Siôn, 2009), An Assessment of the Feasibility of Establishing an Independent Music Licensing and Royalty Collection Agency for Wales (Ap Rhisiart and Owen, … Continue reading →

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Live Music and Higher Education: How can we work together?

Posted on March 12, 2012 by Paul Carr

I am starting a new research project in a couple of weeks related to live music. It builds on a number of projects I have done before – but this time is specifically related to how Higher Education can work … Continue reading →

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Zappa And The And: Ideas for cover of book

Posted on March 5, 2012 by Paul Carr

I am eventually in the closing stages of finishing the Zappa book. Playing around with some ideas for the cover – See below.

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More Musicological Thoughts

Posted on March 3, 2012 by Paul Carr

I gave a musicology lecture the other days which focused on a number of techniques introduced by musicologist Phil Tagg. They are Sonic Anaphone: Where the music extract resembles what it represents.For example motorbike sounds. For me this is similar … Continue reading →

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One Direction Tickets – Secondary Ticketing

Posted on February 28, 2012 by Paul Carr

Here is another great post about secondary ticketing. I know first hand how much people are prepared to pay – it is scary!! Click here to read an in depth report via a Watchdog programme on Secondary Ticketing.

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Live Music Exchange: Mastering Tickets

Posted on February 28, 2012 by Paul Carr

There is an excellent post by Martin Cloonan on live music ticketing on the live music exchange. It reads as follows   On Thursday 23 February Channel 4’s Dispatches programme was entitled The Great Ticket Scandal. In it Channel 4 … Continue reading →

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Update of Current Activities

Posted on February 21, 2012 by Paul Carr

Just a quick update of what I am up to at the moment. Firstly – the edited collection on Frank Zappa is about one month from being sent to the publishers! The plan is to get it on the shelves … Continue reading →

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The Relationship between The Elements of Music and Musical Form

Posted on February 5, 2012 by Paul Carr

  My most recent musicology lecture focused on the relationship between musical form and the elements of music. I am looking for examples of the following – feel free to suggest – Examples of pieces with unusual bar numbers between … Continue reading →

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