Notes from Bruce Russell's Left-Handed Blows: Writing on Sound

Notes from Bruce Russell's Left-Handed Blows: Writing on Sound (2009)

short bluesky summary

⌘ Free improvisation / sound art / noise wryly explained from a Marxist / Situationist / occasionally esoteric perspective.

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Notes [oldest to newest]

2. Benjamin's "phantasmagoria"

3. Time and the spectacle

4. The Situationists and "real lived experience"

5. The Situationist definition of culture

6. Contesting organizational language

7. Improvisation and the derive

8. Bruce Russell on collaboration

9. Music's Empty Quarter

10. The noise "superset"

11. Free music, 1965-1973

12. Amplified free music vs unamplified free music

13. Russell on "harmonically organized music"

14. The Alexander Technique

15. Music and time

16. Improvisation as play

17. The blues and sound recording technology

18. The blues and cultural conservation

19. Cultural time

20. "Genuinely autonomous cultural traditions"

21. Russell on "process-driven" art

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