Back to music for a sec. With regard to *Mehrdeutigkeit* -- https://www.williamanderson.us/blog/neologism-urmehrdeutig/ Music that embraces pitch ambiguity can adopt a picaresque shiftiness. In Pythagorean music, which I …
A passage in Graeber and Wengrow's The Dawn of Everything — describing how Bali's rigidly hierarchical caste society nevertheless governs itself by consensus — suggested two sociological analogies for three compositional …
German neologism of the day: Urmehrdeutig After Georg Joseph Vogler's *Mehrdeutigkeit*, we might translate "Urmehrdeutig" as "primal pun". The primal pun is --the music that had not yet been punned; --the music that …
The right & the left have divergent attitudes toward the shadow. The right might be more at home thereabout it does not have exclusive access. I suspect the right indulges in Shadow Pride.
Artists used to court the powerful.
What ails thee, uncle? Don't ask AI about political things, but about other things, AI can be charming. Here, my reading was already largely in accord with the agglomerator's. I just like the leg up because I don't always …