Happy #MusiciansDay !

I'm Paul and I make music not just for fun, but also as a way to survive in these dark times.

I love odd time signatures, strange modes, weird scales, and various other bits of theory I've picked up over the years.

Broad genres you'll hear are #ambient #house #drone #soundscape and then a /bunch/ of other stuff I struggle to categorize.

All of my music is on SC: https://soundcloud.com/paul-griffin-482718112

You can also hear my latest #jamuary album on Bandwagon.fm: https://bandwagon.fm/@pgriffin

Today's blog post was my response to Jon Young's What the Robin Knows, which focused on developing good listening habits, in the context of advice about how to listen to birds

https://silencesandsounds.blogspot.com

#blog #listening #bird #birdsong #music #soundscape #research #practice #bookstodon

A blog post on historical architecture in the context of soundsheds -- at Chaco Canyon and, by extension, in Medieval Vorarlberg

#Research #blog #AmWriting #Soundscape #Soundshed #Histodons #Medieval #churches

https://silencesandsounds.blogspot.com

Blog post: today it's on ideas of sound as mediator between individual and environment, drawing on Stratoudakis and Papadimitriou (2007), and looking at that 1614 Thalbach snowball fight as an example

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#blog #Nuntastic #Soundscape #SnowballFight #Memory #SoundAsMediator #17thc #AmWriting #Research #AcademicChatter

Wings Of An Angel – Inhale The Toxic Substance Of A Lethargic Dream And Its Zeitgeist
#Ambient #ambientdrone #chillout #cinematicmusic #colddrone #droneambient #drones #ethereal #experimental #meditative #outsidermusic #soundscape #soundtrack #warmdrone #weird #Israel
CC BY-NC-ND (#CreativeCommons Attribution Non Commercial No Derivatives) #ccmusic
https://wingsofanangel.bandcamp.com/album/inhale-the-toxic-substance-of-a-lethargic-dream-and-its-zeitgeist

My last blog post of the year, a word-cloud entry to summarize the 2024 contributions

https://silencesandsounds.blogspot.com/2024/12/2024-silences-and-sounds-123124.html

#blog #AmWriting #AcademicChatter #medieval #soundscape #sounds #silences #musicology

Wings Of An Angel – And Now That The Moon Has Left The Light, I'm Like A Dumb Drummer With A Screaming Match
#Ambient #cinematicmusic #colddrone #drones #electronic #experimental #melancholic #melancholy #outsidermusic #sadambient #soundscape #soundtrack #warmdrone #weird #Israel
CC BY-NC-ND (#CreativeCommons Attribution Non Commercial No Derivatives)
https://wingsofanangel.bandcamp.com/album/and-now-that-the-moon-has-left-the-light-im-like-a-dumb-drummer-with-a-screaming-match

Today I wrote on medieval skeletons and what they suggest about soundworld experiences for those individuals , responding in large measure to Flohr and Kierdorf (2022)

#Medieval #HearingLoss #Blog #AmWriting #soundscape

https://silencesandsounds.blogspot.com/2024/12/bulgy-enlargement-and-medieval-hearing.html

I just found that 95% of my blog traffic comes from the fediverse or straight search, and I would like to thank all of you who've taken a look! It is nice to be read!

That's in contrast to the quote-unquote visible spaces; less than 5% of my traffic comes from Insta or FB links.

Not what I'd have predicted, but in keeping with the quality of interactions I have had here!!!

#AmBlogging #Reading #Silences #Blogs #Sound #Soundscape #Noise #Music #Musicology

https://silencesandsounds.blogspot.com/