As if music mattered: the Small Is Beautiful playlist!
Jamie Thompson is giving me and any other music lover with the good sense to visit his amazing website a virtual musical (re)education. The Small is Beautiful shares a name with Jamie’s own musical project, a beat laboratory located in an abstruse and hermetic part of his miraculous cerebellum. I’m reposting a playlist of his newer work here, but if you’re a music head bored by the stories on Zoey Deschanel’s engagement to Death Car to the Cute Side or whatever, you should definitely explore the website yourself. One of its particularly great features is the Make Sounds page, where Jamie documents his experiments with sounds and music technology. Along with recordings of his results, he includes fascinating explanations that are accessible enough for the less music-geeky (which, you know, includes most of the rest of the human race). On the Small is Beautiful discussion forum, Jamie elaborates:
The idea is to describe the process itself, and to find a new way of producing the sound each day…My hope is that people will read it and develop an interest in sounds themselves that goes deeper than an appreciation for their ability to be organized into music…it’s for anyone who wants to start thinking about what sound is, and that should hopefully be everyone.
Here’s the Small is Beautiful playlist. Enjoy!
