by Sophia Delmar
I really enjoyed reading about how Pandora is doing its “Music Genome Project”. It reminded me a lot of Claude Shannon and how he talks about turning things to information. In this scenario, Pandora is hiring people to map music based on qualitative and quantitative variables. This make it in theory easier to give listeners […]
I found learning about the correlation of western music and the use of major chords to be really cool in the way that our perspectives of what makes a chord “happy” may not be the same as another culture’s. I am still feeling confused as to why a major chord sounds inherently happy to us […]
Learning about the decline of the number of chords in modern music was very interesting to me. It made sense that a decline in chords would come from funk music, which utilized usually only two or so chords and was really great for dancing. This also has its roots in Latin music, such as Cuban […]
Wikipedia and crowdsourcing are really interesting in how it allows people to contribute online. Although Wikipedia is not the most reliable source because of this, it does end up being at the top of most search engines when searching for just about anything. Crowd sourcing is also a really interesting thing that has led into […]
For the digital scavenger hunt I looked up the word “Hip Hop”. Interestingly, there were two tiny bumps of interest, once around 1903, and then again in the 1920s. This had me thinking that perhaps “Hip Hop” was used to describe something else at that time. I researched those dates […]
This week we talked about forms of Nationalism, and how different countries support their form of nationalism. Because the United States in formed with so many people of vastly different backgrounds, it doesn’t necessarily work to boast of a racial nationalism. Our nationalism is contractual and thin in the sense that we are a new […]
This week we talked about beats in class. We talked about how different genres of music can revolves around different beats. For example, we started by talking about a lot of beats from Central and South American cultures such as The Habenera, Tango, and Samba. The Habenera is said to be from Cuba and features […]
For class this week we talked about minstrel shows in the United States. I was blown away by the lecture on minstrel shows. I found it to be so unbelievable and gross. I had no idea about them at all and on top of that how prevalent they were, and how much they affected things […]
For class this week we talked about the signal to noise ratio. Signal is the thing that you want to hear while noise is the noise that you don’t want to hear and keeps you from fully hearing the signal. We then talked about Alan Turing, imitation game, and the Turing device test for machine […]
In class this week we talked about the differences between realism and idealism. Idealism represents that thought that somewhere in the universe there is an ideal that we should strive for. This ideal in many cases is represented by an ideal God, or gods, and people are seen as the lesser version of this divine […]
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