Posted in Art, Music, tagged "Snake Tongues", Adam Grancuciel, Future Weather, Slave Ambient, War On Drugs on September 10, 2011| Leave a Comment »
If you’re a friend of Playtonic Ds or a real life friend of mine, you’ll know that since your humble fabulist caught wind of the War On Drugs’ 2010 release last November, (the very LP-like Future Weather EP) the band has been in constant roto here at headquarters. (more…)
Posted in Art, Music, tagged as bright as your night light, Consequence of Sound, kale, nerves junior, video on September 8, 2011| Leave a Comment »
Nerves Junior just made the best record of the year so far. So I made a video. I guess this is becoming a trend. (more…)
Posted in Art, Music, tagged all creatures will make merry, meursault, music video, one day this'll all be fields, public domain footage, scotland, stock footage on August 22, 2011| Leave a Comment »
I’ve gushed about Meursault before on Playtonic Dialogues. The band has figured prominently on the tapes I’ve shared and their 2010 LP All Creatures Will Make Merry is one of my favorite records of the past couple of years. “One Day This’ll All Be Fields” is a choice selection off of Creatures, so of course I put it in a video shwag collage. (more…)
Posted in Art, Music, tagged bachelorette, kurt vile, lower dens, music video, stock footage, the ronettes on August 10, 2011| Leave a Comment »
About a month ago, here on PD’s, I introduced some of the a/v collages I’ve put together this summer. Since then I’ve kept up the trend, hopefully making a little progress. Here is some more (mostly) public-domain music video schwag. Feast!
Posted in Art, Music, tagged Beirut, Bomba Estéreo, music video, stock footage, Telekenesis on July 12, 2011| Leave a Comment »
Hey yall, hello hello. After a couple month hiatus I’m back in the Playtonic D’s universe to share my newest foray into multimedia literacy. I put together these music videos using stock footage from the public domain that I found on archive.org – a great archival site for live music, stock footage, and a cornucopia of other great public shit.
Posted in Art, Life, Music, Review, tagged "Devil In A New Dress", "The Joy", Common, Cosmogramma, Exlaim's Year in Review 2010, Flying Lotus, Good Friday, Jay-Z, My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy, Pitchfork, Rolling Stone, Spin, Stereogum on December 9, 2010| 3 Comments »
A consensus appears to be forming. According to three leading music publications (Rolling Stone, SPIN, and, ugh, Stereogum) Kanye West’s My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy is the best album of 2010. Additionally, it is a matter of when rather than if indie taste maker Pitchfork awards the same honor to West, given that Dark Fantasy received a perfect score of 10.0. Thus, with all the praise that is and will continue to be showered upon Dark Fantasy before and after the end of 2010, I believe it is worth evaluating the mass critical reaction in addition to the album. Much like the self-perpetuating nature of groupthink, the music news establishment is loosing its independence and creativity to general consensus.
Posted in Art, Is This Music?, Music, Philosophy, tagged Cocky Eek, Get In Touch on April 26, 2010| Leave a Comment »
Merry Monday Playtonics!
Let’s kick off the week right and bring back the long dormant column “Is This Music?” According to the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, philosophy of music is the study of fundamental questions about the nature of music and our experience of it. In keeping with these questions, “Is This Music?” aims to present thought-provoking expeditions into sound and ask, “Is this music?” Playtonic Dialogues is all about sparking discourse so please make a case for why X piece is or is not music. Without further ado…
Posted in Art, Jokes & Jokes, Music, tagged Ke$ha, Paul Muldoon, Tik Tok on April 20, 2010| 1 Comment »
Mornin’ Playtonics,
Did you see Ke$ha on SNL over the weekend? It was a train wreck. I mean, I love hearing “Tik Tok” in da club as much as the next person, however it’s clear that the studio product doesn’t make a smooth transition when performed live. Regardless, if you marvel at the song’s lyric choices, you should watch the above video of Paul Muldoon, a Pulitzer Prize-winning poet and professor at Princeton University, analyzing the deeper meaning of this seminal poet.
Posted in Art, Music, Philosophy, tagged Popmatters on April 13, 2010| Leave a Comment »
Yesterday I came across an article on the cultural criticism website PopMatters titled “Mental Machine Music: The Musical Mind in the Digital Age.” Immediately, I was excited by the prospect that the article would be an intelligent and analytical study of how digital music changes the ways in which we perceive music. An article of that subject matter, I thought, would be perfect for Playtonic Dialogues, where we try to highlight philosophically minded music topics. However, to my dismay, “Mental Machine Music” is a rambling list of observations and piecemeal theories.
Posted in Art, Music, Philosophy, tagged The Electro Wars on April 12, 2010| Leave a Comment »
So via Pitchfork I found out about an upcoming documentary called The Electro Wars. In addition to chronicling the electronic dance music scene, it appears that the documentary will explore deeper questions regarding the digital format and the ways in which the music industry is changing. Check out a more polished trailer here.
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