Category Archives: Multimedia

Metal Mashup 2: Al Son del Bodom Beach Boom (Children of Bodom vs. Daddy Yankee)

This is an interesting mix of some classic melodic thrashy death metal with rrrreggaeton! Children of Bodom – Bodom Beach Terror Daddy Yankee feat. Miguelito – Al Son Del Boom (El Heredero)

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Download MP3 here Al Son del Bodom Beach Boom by Alex Yule is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 [...]

Go Away (in progress)

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Go Away, far Far Away.

Chu!I reach my heel back, swift kick to the rockhard gut Chu! Then airborne, squinting [...]

Photoblog Up: Sh00t N0thing

My spiffy new photoblog is now up and running: “Battlestations Operational”

Inner Peace Through METAL (early draft)

While it is not clear to me if the motivating power of death metal is generating a vanguard of energetic youth or drawing artistic and creative youngpeople into a trap of naive individualism, I believe that the political significance of musical sound is rooted in the meanings that the participantsconstitute and the consequences of those meanings for the participants’ lives and the larger society.[^motpower] [^motpower]:Harris M Berger, “Death Metal Tonality and the Act of Listening,” Popular Music 18, no.

…>It’s not the music, but the feelings of the people we hear playing that are important to us… it is not the music as a physical stimulus that manipulates our moods, but it is using the music as a communicative offering to influence our feelings in a re-creative process.[^recreat] [^recreat]:Oliver Grewe et al., “Listening to Music as a Re-Creative Process: Physiological, Psychological, and Psychoacoustical Correlates of Chills and Strong Emotions,” Music Perception 24, no.

Digital Story Script

face-melting guitar, vocals that stretch the human voice to its limits: caustic to guttural, to epicly operatic. Echoes of rage, alienation, the desire to withdraw into a charred sonic landscape.

Digital Story Soundtrack

Unfortunately I don’t have much time to make this digital story into anything decent, or that I’d be proud of…. I’ve combined the following tracks into one song that is 5 mins 11 secs long (the outro is long for credits & such, so its really more like 4 mins).

14 Pieces of Music, 14 Lines of Text

Ear to thorax, hearing the sounds from a world to which we are outside, I know the essence of life and its living…. Unabashedly, we look into the furnaces that forged this people from the ore of time in the bowels of the earth, in all our glorious good and hideous evil.

10 Sentences for 10 Images I Wish I’d Taken

Walking on Clouds by Gilad Benari In Absentia by ilSilenzio Little Fish by SeaFairy Shadows of Dismember by Caroline Traitler

Digital Story Brainstorm: Mongolia, A Land of Contradictions

Yet today she must sell herself to the west, desperate for third neighbors who care more about her politics than her coal and gold. One of the original lands of Buddhism, the creators of the Dalai Llama, yet increasingly filled with sparkling Mormon churches and ecstatic evangelists.

10 Sentences I Wish I’d Written

Sentence 1: “The sidewalks of St. Charles Place have been cracked to shards by through-growing weeds.”