Stephen O’Malley‘s reputation for producing punishingly loud noise levels goes before him.
The Seattle-based artist has his finger in a number of pies but is best known for being for being one the two core members of the grimm-robed doom-metal group Sunn 0))).
On Monday 4th July , in the picturesque grounds of the Rocca Brancaleone, O’Malley was playing solo as part of Ravenna Festival’s audio-visual shows under the heading Weird Tales (Stregonerie Sonore). Continue reading
‘This is Your Brain on Music’ is a fascinating book about connections – exploring how emotional links are made through memories and interactions while listening to or performing music.
Daniel Levitin starts from the basics, asking the question ‘What is music?’ – examining what it is about music that makes us obsess about it. He writes: “the emotions we experience in response to music involve structures deep in the primitive reptilian regions of the cerebelar vermis, and the amygdala – the heart of emotional processing in the cortex”. A phrase like this, taken out of context, sounds a bit dry but he manages to weave such information into a text rich in anecdotal asides and down to earth examples. Continue reading
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