Musics
from 1ix25
(and in dire need of reorganization)

I'm figuring out how to organize and build an onramp to the musical facets of my life, as a part of the /lifebox Project, with the idea that there's a huge and complex amount of potential Legacy ...some of which is sound files (mostly mp3, mostly collected since 2005) that I don't propose to make distributable on the web, but want to create hard drive/desktop access to for ...posterity.

And there's

• the Music books in the library;
• the access to the vinyl, and the access to the cds [an unsolved problem]
• and (somehow) the Cross-Cultural Studies in Music materials from Acadia (handout texts, demonstration tapes)
• and the instrument collection (photographs and stories still to be contrived, and years of interactions with Jake Wildwood)
• and the stabs I've made at musical autobiography

  Musical autobiography written between 1996 and 2004
  Musical Ruminations, August 2005 and updated after that
  2025 summary for 60th Class report

• and the trove of music videos, in .flv downloads (on my hard drives) and as YouTube links pages;
• and the contents of the folders in the file drawers
• ...and probably other aspects I haven't recognized yet.

On the current Home Page at oook.info are links to the 5 albums with Daniel

other material to plunder:

music links gathered

musics files 2xi23 on oook.info

2007 summary (mandocello and saz tunes mp3s)

Rob reorganizes his records from High Fidelity

A first pass at exploring the /Expansion/musics/ files

all folders
mp3 files
ogg files
pdf and txt files
html files
video files

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(I'm not sure what to do with this home page for UNIV203, from 2005, so for now it will stay here)

Links on this page and pages linked to it should work, though linkrot will set in eventually.
You might try The Internet Archive
(Wayback Machine)
to find cached versions of orphaned/dead pages.

Hugh's logfile is the main entrée to course materials and examples

UNIV 203 Winter 2005
Cross-Cultural Studies in Music:
Ethnomusicology in the 21st century

"people are the music that they listen to" (mp3)

Music is the soundtrack to human activity from birth to death.
(Andrew Orlowski)

...I brought virtually no context to the record. I simply took it home, put it on, and had my life changed.
I heard a sound I'd never heard before, but which, for some reason, I connected to.
It was what Herman Melville called the shock of recognition
--and for me that shock has always been
the realization that you have recognized something nothing could have led you to expect to recognize.
The question turns out not to be what-makes-the-music-great,
but why you recognized its greatness when, all things considered,
you shouldn't have understood it at all, or even stumbled upon it in the first place...
(Greil Marcus, from "When you walk in the room", in The Dustbin of History [E169.04 .M365 1995], pg. 144)

The soundscape of the world is changing... Noise pollution is now a world problem.
It would seem that the world soundscape has reached an apex of vulgarity in our time,
and many experts have predicted universal deafness as the ultimate consequence
unless the problem can be brought quickly under control.
(R. Murray Schafer, in The Tuning of the World [ML3805 .S3], pg. 3)

more details and Hugh's logfile and official course description and exegesis and class blog

Assignments: One | Two