We found 10 episodes of Weird Studies with the tag “music”.
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Episode 164: Towards a Weird Materialism: On Expressionism in Cinema
Episode | March 6th, 2024 | 1 hr 29 mins
aesthetics, cinema, expressionism, literature, metaphysics, music, visual art
JF and Phil discuss the expressionist sensibility in the history of film.
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Episode 159: Three Songs, with Meredith Michael
Episode | December 6th, 2023 | 1 hr 30 mins
buddhism, control, memory, music, politics, religion, song swap, time
Music scholar Meredith Michael joins Phil and JF to discuss songs by Vienna Teng, Lili Boulanger, and Iron & Wine.
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Episode 149: Song Swap: On Judee Sill's 'The Kiss' and Wilco's 'Jesus, Etc.'
Episode | June 21st, 2023 | 1 hr 19 mins
music, prophecy, song swap, time
Phil and JF explore the musicological, philosophical, and prophetic dimensions of two good tunes.
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Episode 142: The Music of the Spheres: On Jóhann Jóhannsson's "Last and First Men"
Episode | March 15th, 2023 | 1 hr 21 mins
brutalism, cinema, extinction, music, science fiction
Phil and JF discuss the Icelandic's composer posthumous science fiction film.
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Episode 137: Brute Force: on Sunn O)))'s 'Life Metal'
Episode | December 14th, 2022 | 1 hr 14 mins
avant garde, brutalism, impermanence, music
JF and Phil discuss Sunn O)))'s eighth album, released in 2019
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Episode 115: Transience & Immersion: On Brian Eno's 'Music for Airports'
Episode | February 2nd, 2022 | 1 hr 15 mins
aesthetics, buddhism, consciousness, music, politics
Phil and JF discuss the 1978 album that established the ambient music genre.
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Episode 110: Monks of the Cultural Apocalypse: 'The Glass Bead Game,' Part Two
Episode | November 10th, 2021 | 1 hr 13 mins
academia, culture, literature, music
JF and Phil resume their discussion on Hermann Hesse's "The Glass Bead Game," this time with a focus on what the novel reveals about the value of culture in our times.
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Episode 104: We'd Love to Turn You On: 'Sgt. Pepper' and the Beatles
Episode | August 4th, 2021 | 1 hr 22 mins
beatles, history, media studies, music, pop culture
JF and Phil mine the weird in the Beatles' iconic 1967 album.
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Episode 98: Taboo: Time and Belief in Exotica
Episode | May 12th, 2021 | 1 hr 20 mins
aesthetics, culture, exotica, history, music
JF and Phil discuss the ethics and metaphysics of the obscure musical genre known as exotica.
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Episode 79: Love, Death, and the Dream Life
Episode | August 5th, 2020 | 1 hr 4 mins
art, decadence, music, prophecy
JF and Phil discuss decadence and vision in Nina Simone's rendition of "Lilac Wine" and Ghostface Killah's "Underwater."