I’m incredibly excited to post the first batch of audio sketches we’ve made from our initial recordings of a Phantom II quadcopter with a coil/pickup mic. You can find them all here on our soundcloud. I went in and updated…
Dead Kennedys, “Kinky Sex Makes the World Go Round” Frankie Goes to Hollywood, “Two Tribes” L7, “Wargasm” Ministry, “NWO” Any more recent songs to add to the list?
This is a revised version of a post I originally published on 9/10/14. Thanks for all the feedback! I’m still not finished with this argument, so if you have further ideas, I’d love to talk. In her post on Twitter’s…
I really, really loved Sara Ahmed’s “Self-Care as Warfare.” My responses to it are really oriented by my own perspective as a white woman, as someone who is praised, rewarded, and obligated for resiliently surviving amid all the patriarchal damage…
This is yet another installment of Robin blogs her way through the initial research for her new book project. So, all the usual caveats: initial thoughts, raw and unrefined, barf-it-out-in-writing, needs lots of feedback and revision, etc etc. I realize…
I’m incredibly excited to make my debut over at SoundingOut!. My post “‘Cremation of senses in friendly fire’: on sound & biopolitics (via KMFDM & World War Z) went up today. Here’s a sample: There’s a 20-year gap in chronology…
This started out as an essay about Taylor Swift’s “Shake It Off” video, but it grew into a larger discussion of post-identity politics and post-genre pop music aesthetics. I’m interested in their common features, values, and practices. Because genre-mixing and…
Welcome to the next installment of Robin blogs her way through initial research for her new book. As usual, this is all very raw, just me trying to articulate some ideas and think out loud. I’ve made a little headway…
As citation:obsolete was preparing to start work on Music for Drones, I noticed that police helicopters circled our neighborhood a LOT. So, I started recording the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department (CMPD) choppers as they circled (and sometimes hovered) my neighborhood, often…
This is a cross-post from Cyborgology. I want to think about the relationship two recent-ish articles draw between big data and social “harmony.” Why is big data something that we think is well-suited to facilitate a harmonious society? Or, when we think…
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