Art, Aura, and The Algorithm & Why The Mountain Conquers You
About this episode
The episode discusses the impact of music algorithms on our listening experience and explores the concepts of aura and the sublime in music.
Why I Listened to 2,000 Minutes of Tchaikovsky Last Year We are living in the age of "frictionless" music. The algorithms know what we want before we do, the dopamine is cheap, and the content is served to us on a silver platter. But as Charles Bukowski once said of classical music: "It washes the crap right out of me." Lately, it feels like there’s a lot of crap to wash out. In this episode, I’m stepping away from the "business" of music to talk about the Aura and the Sublime. I’m breakin...
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