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Door County, Wisconsin: Borders and Non-Borders
Me and S visited Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin last month for her birthday. It’s about three hours’ drive from Madison. We reserved a room in a bed & breakfast fifteen miles from the bay itself. When we...
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Artwork #5: God Made These Colicky Indian Babies
The Last Three Minutes of “Rab Ne Bana De Jodi,” Jaipur, India. January, 2009. 3:00. Movie theater culture varies dramatically, but in most places audiences respond out loud in ways that are normative...
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Ya-ah indayah ya-ah indayah ya-ah indayah ya-ah indayah
I recorded something last week. I don’t know what. First order of business: do you? Vocal sound in Kensington, Brooklyn For context, G.F. and I moved last month to an apartment on the cusp of...
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Loud-Ass Brown Music!
This spring, the music department borrowed a professional sound level meter from a company that sells them. I spent a day walking around and talking to people about noise in the city, using the reader...
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The Lost Tribes of New York City
Something “lite” for Friday. (Trying to make this the routine.) The Lost Tribes of New York City, by Carolyn and Andy London Most of the interview snippets concern race, obliquely or head-on. If you...
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Interview #1: Amina Robinson on Hearing Audiences Watch ‘Precious’:
Precious, out for about a month now, was a tremendously complicated movie to attend. Audience members were divided on how to respond, vocally. How should people react to difficult art? Loudly or...
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