Key Takeaway from Interview
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The personal relationships between blogger
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The way that Beeler conforms the music he
selects around the “lifeaquatic” aesthetic
o “straight
up 9th wonder…” clip from interview
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The young age of the producers
o “16
year old from Perth”
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Interesting decision to import vinyl pressings
from UK for releases
o Is
this dedication of some sort to the overall “aesthetic of the blog”
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Pairing of mp3 downloads and vinyls is a direct
reflection of the way the blogger conceives of the music.
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The way that Beeler’s Australian posts are
informed by a growing network of personal connections with musicians across
Australia. (remarks about how the blog is becoming increasingly personal)
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General thoughts about the categories of
pictures
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Questions answered:
o 1.
Origin of the tracks
§
either put into a soundcloud dropbox or sent
personally
·
tracks are either sent by artists bombing blogs
indiscriminately or by artists who chose lifeaquatic specifically due to its “vibe”
(importance of the phrase “vibe” as an organizing principle for the blog)
o perhaps
“vibe” is what unifies the auditory and visual aesthetic
o 2.
Origin of the pictures
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Beeler’s process: collect pictures on Flickr.
Save good ones then scroll through and decide while listening to the track
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Beeler’s thoughts on the musical spectrum:
o Songs
that range from ambient to more hip-hop inflected (this distance is mimicked by
the themes of the picture
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Inter-Australian blog network
o Good
friend runs East-West
o Connections
w/ international bloggers (No Pain in Pop in Berlin)
Analysing the Blog Descriptions
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Aggregating 11 pages of blog descriptions
o Most
common words:
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Track (113): the referring to the songs as
tracks conveys perhaps a certain attitude to the music (evaluate this)
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Musical Terms: Vocal (57), Beat (52), Sample
(49), Synth (49), Bass (29)
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EP (33), Release (29),
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Adjectives: slow (24), gem (14), layered (13),
heavy (12) hip (10), waves (12), Australian (10*- excluding references to
Australia as a noun), delicate (10), soft (10), ambient (10), soul(10), playful
(9), beautiful (9), thump (8), minimal (9), chrome (8)
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Frequent descriptions of texture of sound to
describe atmosphere. Synaesthetic adjectives conflate visual with sonic.
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Most descriptions feature a description of the
beat in atmosphere terms and the vocals. The beats are often described as
idiosyncratic.
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Frequent references to Friendly blogs
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Consistent referencing to other blogs when he
gets a track from them
o In
this the blog is not aggressively proprietary over its tracks
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