Episode 159: Three Songs, with Meredith Michael

Every once in a while, JF and Phil like to do a “song swap.” Each picks a song, and the ensuing conversation locates linkages and correspondences where none was previously thought to exist. In this episode, they are joined by the music scholar Meredith Michael – Weird Studies assistant, and co-host of Cosmophonia, a podcast about music and outer space – to discuss songs by Lili Boulanger, Vienna Teng, and Iron & Wine. Before long, this disparate assortment personal favourites occasions a weirdly focused dialogue on time, impermanence, control, (mis)recognition, and the affinity of art and synchronicity.

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REFERENCES

Iron and Wine, “Passing Afternoon” (youtube.com/watch?v=q0dP7iZv9K0&ab_channel…)

Vienna Teng, “The Hymn of Acxiom” (youtube.com/watch?v=QF-7WiLykGM&ab_channel…), (and here is the live version (youtube.com/watch?v=tJyheSPtjoU&ab_channel…))

Lili Boulanger, Vieille Priére Bouddhique (youtube.com/watch?v=evn3bkK2W3o&ab_channel…)

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (imdb.com/title/tt0106145)

Karol Berger, Bach’s Cycle Mozart’s Arrow (bookshop.org/a/18799/9780520257979)

William Shakespeare, Hamlet (bookshop.org/a/18799/9780743477123)

Charles Darwin, The Origin of Species (bookshop.org/a/18799/9780451529060)

Immanuel Kant, Critique of Pure Reason (bookshop.org/a/18799/9780140447477)

Vladimir Jankelevitch, Music and the Ineffable (bookshop.org/a/18799/9780691090474)

Hector Berlioz, Fugue on “amen” from La Damnation du Faust (youtube.com/watch?v=ChgJsOdNYSo&ab_channel…)

Slavoj Zizek, A Pervert’s Guide to Idiology (imdb.com/title/tt2152198)

Federico Campagna, Technic and Magic (bookshop.org/a/18799/9781350044029)

Shepard Tone (youtube.com/watch?v=BzNzgsAE4F0&ab_channel…)

Rudolf Steiner, The Influces of Lucifer and Ahriman (bookshop.org/a/18799/9780880103756)
Special Guest: Meredith Michael.

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