Organized Sound: Recent Episodes
Barry Lam
Music tells us so much about mind, emotion, values, and the overall human experience, but what is it and how do we judge it? The closest thing to a definition we have of music is that it is "organized sound." From the basic chord to the musical mashup, this is a playlist that inspires deeper thinking about music.
From “what is a note” to “what is a beautiful chord progression”, this episode inspires wonder from the simplest music theory.
Great music created by terrible human beings sometimes inspires hatred of the music, but sometimes not. How should we respond?
Two obscure recordings from 1983 inspired an entirely new genre of pop music in the age of digital media.
The creation of great music is sometimes not inspired all at once, but the result of decades of revision by multiple artists.
Are there particular gendered sounds in popular music evoking feminism, and is it a real feminism?