Tag Archives: documentary

href weekly | June 2 – June 8 2024

Bits

“We believe that repairability and interoperability are particularly important for the survival, resilience, and self-determination of Canada’s rural, remote, and Indigenous communities.” https://www.canrepair.ca/repair-declaration

Choose a neural network then try to assemble it https://graphgame.sabrina.dev/

“Target Speech Hearing” https://www.washington.edu/news/2024/05/23/ai-headphones-noise-cancelling-target-speech-hearing/

Music & Sound

She’s All About That Bass .. It’s not your imagination: a disproportionate number of women really do play bass guitar in rock bands. https://daily.jstor.org/shes-all-about-that-bass/

he obviously uses in his and in his visual art, but he hadn’t done anything with video, and this is sort of a combination of a generative project and a traditional https://teenage.engineering/now#B-1

Politics & Economics

A sobering look at how swim upstream against monopolies https://www.canadaland.com/podcast/work-11-the-way-the-music-died/

“Concern for humanization leads at once to the recognition of dehumanization … as an historical reality.” https://theconversation.com/student-protests-how-the-university-perpetuates-colonial-violence-on-campus-230075

The People’s Music

I’m a son of a sea cook, and a cook in a trader
I can dance, I can sing, I can reef the main boom
I can handle a jigger, and cuts a big figure
Whenever I gets in a boat’s standing room.

Maritime adaptation of Spanish Ladies


mackenzie_ballads-and-sea-songs-from-novascotia

Birth of a Genre (MP3)

[audio:https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/2251996/The-Peoples-Music-Part-1.mp3]

The Genre Comes of Age (MP3)

[audio: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/2251996/The-Peoples-Music-Part-2.mp3]

The Birth of an Industry (Mp3)

[audio:https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/2251996/The-Peoples-Music-Part-3.mp3]

If I Had a Song (MP3)

[audio:https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/2251996/The-Peoples-Music-Part-4.mp3]

We Are The World (MP3)

[audio:https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/2251996/The-Peoples-Music-Part-5.mp3]

A fantastic 5-part radio documentary on the emergence of Canadian folk music from Vancouver’s Gary Cristall.