We found 7 episodes of Weird Studies with the tag “music”.
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Episode 60: Space is the Place: On Sun Ra, Gnosticism, and the Tarot
Episode | November 20th, 2019 | 1 hr 25 mins
esotericism, magic, music
JF and Phil discuss Sun Ra's strange and prophetic film, "Space is the Place."
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Episode 54: Lobsters, Pianos, and Hidden Gods
Episode | August 28th, 2019 | 1 hr 17 mins
music, panpsychism, philosophy
JF and Phil discuss Errol Morris's fascinating essay, "The Pianist and the Lobster."
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Episode 42: On Pauline Oliveros, with Kerry O'Brien
Episode | March 13th, 2019 | 1 hr 3 mins
composers, interviews, meditation, music
Music scholar Kerry O'Brien join Phil and JF for a conversation on the work of American composer Pauline Oliveros.
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Episode 38: Style as Analysis
Episode | January 16th, 2019 | 1 hr 10 mins
music, writing
Phil and JF discuss a recently published article of Phil's authorship on how to write about music.
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Episode 31: Scarcely Human at All: On Glenn Gould's 'Prospects of Recording'
Episode | October 24th, 2018 | 1 hr 16 mins
art, music, technology, transhumanism
JF and Phil discuss the Canadian pianist Glenn Gould's prophetic essay, "The Prospects of Recording."
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Episode 28: Weird Music, Part Two
Episode | October 2nd, 2018 | 1 hr 4 mins
morality, music, romanticism
The search for the music of the weird continues with a discussion on Bob Dylan and Franz Liszt.
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Episode 27: Weird Music, Part One
Episode | September 26th, 2018 | 1 hr 18 mins
cinema, ligeti, music, ornette coleman
Phil and JF discuss two powerful pieces of music: Ligeti's Musica Ricercata, second movement, and the opening music to Cronenberg's Naked Lunch, composed by Howard Shore and featuring Ornette Coleman.