Music Make A Joyful Noise: Musical Expression in Summer of Soul 1 Jun 20231 Jun 2023 A holler. A wail. A cry out. In harmony, the crowds riled up with a surge of energy. This was just the beginning of the line-up at the Harlem Cultural…
Music It Must Be Fate: The Aural Romance of Night is Short, Walk on Girl 1 Jun 202331 May 2023 What Night is Short, Walk on Girl (Dir. Masaaki Yuasa, 2017) brings to the table is the contrast between two philosophies that exist within us all. It is a film…
Music Shoegaze, Vampires and Synchronicity 1 Jun 202331 May 2023 There’s a physics theory called ‘quantum entanglement’. At its most basic, quantum entanglement says that two particles can be linked, even across billions of light years. If a change is…
Music In the Ether: All About Lily Chou Chou and the Effervescence of Music 1 Jun 202331 May 2023 We hear an average of 1.3 million songs in our lifetime. How many of those songs stay with you throughout our lives? How many of them can you sing by…
Music Violins and Viscera: The Orchestral Potential of the Biopic in Mishima 1 Jun 202331 May 2023 “Perfect purity is possible if you turn your life into a line of poetry written with a splash of blood.” — Yukio Mishima, Runaway Horses When I first watched Mishima:…
Music The Convergence of Hip-Hop and the Digital Arena of The Sims 4 1 Jun 202331 May 2023 Each edition of the video game The Sims embodies a simulation of the real world allowing for the player to go through quotidian experiences, yet particular realities are denied since…
Music Musicality of Silence in Sound of Metal 1 Jun 202331 May 2023 It is hard to explain how silence feels. Not as in the absence of sound, but in your heart and mind. Silence can be heavy, can be sharp, can be…
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