Wednesday, January 19, 2011

The Return of the Virtual?


I've been reading 'Sonic Warfare' by Steve Goodman (aka Kode9 for the bassheads out there) - a powerful critique of, among other things, the concept of the virtual approached from rhtythmanalysis point of view. Instead of a jargon-heavy blog post elaborating on this, I thought a Youtube video might do the job much better - an example of the recent 'return' to (or discovery of?) Native American and/or Prehispanic sounds and rhythms in the context of global bass (this one replete with a virtual reality video):



'Sonic Warfare' was also extended as a blog.