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Liam O’Flynn
Happy St. Patrick’s Day
Medieval hurdy-gurdy music is amazing
Andrey Vinogradov – Reverse Dance. Medieval Dance. Hurdy-Gurdy, Organ & Drum
Good morning!
Lost Voices of Hagia Sofia
The sound of 500 year old choral music in the Hagia Sofia.
“Lost Voices of Hagia Sophia” is the first vocal album in the world to be recorded entirely in live virtual acoustics. It brings together art history, music history, performance, and technology to re-create medieval sacred sound in the cathedral of Hagia Sophia as an aural virtual reality.“
Found via this excellent write-up by Kottke.
The Memory Palace
Nate Dimeo is a national treasure. His podcast, The Memory Palace is one of the most consistently wonderful ways to spend ones time and attention. Each episode is a perfect, and precisely cut gem carrying a bit of forgotten history forward through time with meticulous care, and genuine artistry. Its difficult to pick a selection of recommendations, but here are a few that I always think of first:
DiMeo was named Artist in Residence at the Metropolitan Museum of art in New York City from 2016 to 2017. During that time he produced eight stories inpired by the collection there. On November 7th of 2016, he read Walt Whitman’s ‘Song of Myself’ in it’s entirety. Its not hyperbole to say that The Memory Palace is podcasting elevated to art.
Memory Palace episodes are ususally 10 to 15 miuntes, short for podcast but less of a time commitment as well. They are well researched, reliably spellbinding, and each one ends with 12 seconds of silence allowing the listener a generous space to emerge from the story before the short sign off. Every episode is beautiful and informative. In case its not already obvious, I can’t recommend it enough. If you do nothing else this year please listen to one episode. I really think you’ll be happy you did.
Mindscape Podcast
An excellent episode of Sean Carroll’s Mindscape Podcast, with Kwame Anthony Appiah on identities, stories, and cosmopolitanism. A great conversation on how we sort ourselves and what it means to do so.
De La Soviet
De La Soulviet is a mashup album that combines De La Soul a capella vocals with instrumentals based on Soviet Union jazz/soul records. I am going to have trouble overstating how amazing this is.
There’s also CommonNasm, and Q-Tipokratiya
OK Boomer
I know you’ve heard of BTS. At least I have to assume you have because I have, and I’m aware of stuff but I’m not omniscient. What I do know is that the internet has made the big world both smaller, and somehow larger at the same time, and if you couple that with the inexorable march of age the result is a sort of foggy apprehension of pop culture. So I’ve heard of BTS, I am aware that they have something to do with the Kpop phenomenon, and I’ve pretty much relegated that whole agglomeration to the not-for-me file. As it turns out that was unfair. Connect BTS sounds pretty damn interesting in this breakdown by Jay Springett.