About
Click to view a tad‒bit larger. And share with your friends, co‒workers, and creative icons.
(via johnndege)
This photo of rapper J Electronica is one of my favourite gig shots; taken haphazardly on a Cannon 350d before the camera died.
It may be a back of the head shot but I love the ambiguity and the contrasting light.
Snap
Mad Dog 2010
I own a Canon 350d and this is the best photo i’ve taken with it.
YOU have 60 mins to get that pefect shot.
Festival Photofreestyle, join us.
Listening to music is something that many of us do from a very early age, possibly to early to discern what music actually is. At the point when the cacophony of sound called music first hits your inner ear you don’t know whether it’s music or is it the art of noise?
There really isn’t any way of knowing how we personally as babies reacted to the first song or piece of music we heard, but from the point of birth till death do us part, many of us may never really “listen” to music, instead we observe but rarely investigate the soundtrack to our lives.
I realise these are broad sweeping statements; you may well interogate the music you listen to whilst you listen to it, however my observation of contemporary popular music, my own listening habits, the responses or lack thereof of those of around me when music is playing, makes me question the extent to which we really “listen” to music.
Aware of the passivity I displayed when hearing music I decided to take a step back and begin an exercise in listening to music. This was a simple task but an incredibily enjoyable and fulfilling one, which anyone can complete.
1. First of all select your favourite song at the moment.
2. Play it once from beginning to the very end.
3. Play it again and see if you can pick out an instrument (the voice is an instrument) that forms part of the composition.
4. Once you have picked your instrument, listen to it over isolating that instrument throughout the song.
5. Continue doing this until you have identified and isolated as many instruments as possible and then play the song again. Philosopher Paul Tillich once said ” the first duty of love is to listen”. Think about it.
It’s true what they say, “Time waits for no man” and it certainly did not wait for me or music. Plenty of water has passed under the bridge since the last time I sat down, listened to or wrote about good music, bad music, any musac! The haitus is over, the cockles have been warmed and the ears battered with an album a day. Ladies and Gentlemen prepare yourselves the catablog of music is back. Welcome to 2009.
The prelude
I love music, what I love even more is finding good music, even more than that is finding good new music and sometimes finding great old music too. Finding good music is a challenge, sometimes its near impossible, until someone plays a track you’ve never heard before, or a friend recommends something to you that you’ve not heard in a very long time. I can’t always be bothered to go digging for songs on youtube or finding new bands on myspace, so I prefer someone telling me where to look.
The solution - a Catablog?
A catablog of music, is a catalogue or directory of music recommended by you every week and listed on the conducted and composed catablog. This is an opportunity to discover music you may never have heard of or hear music from artists about to blow. Every week I will catablog 3 tracks that I want to share with anyone who cares to listen, and also encourage people to recommend 3 (max) songs that they think should see the light of day. Before you know it there should be a directory of amazing and interesting music from across the musical spectrum.
Happy catablogging
