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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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Zappa and Intergrational Meaning: A Quick Example

Posted on June 19, 2011 by Paul Carr

I could not resist but to briefly cover an example of Barthes’ ‘intergrational’ meaning via a Zappa video example – ‘Montana’. For me anyway, here are a few examples of the simultaneous narratives that I can hear in the music. … Continue reading →

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Musicology, Zappa and Barthes: More Ideas of how to Listen and Examine Zappa’s Texts

Posted on June 19, 2011 by Paul Carr

Here is a sort of part 2 of my Barthes post a couple of weeks ago. That post mainly discussed Frank Zappa’s album covers, and the various messages that are potentially within the image. In this discussion I would like … Continue reading →

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Roland Barthes Interpretes Zappa: The Perfect Photo

Posted on June 7, 2011 by Paul Carr

While working on my book on Frank Zappa, I am currently reading a lot of Roland Barthes, and have started to consider how some of his ideas can apply to music. There is a really interesting chapter in his book … Continue reading →

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What Is A Loop In Music:what does it mean to us?

Posted on February 21, 2011 by Paul Carr

  I am currently getting ready to present a paper at the university of Liege with my colleague Ben Challis. It is  entitled The Impossible Made Real: A Typology of Loops and an exploration of the impact of immediacy and … Continue reading →

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