September 3, 2020, Filed Under: Featured1, Research + TeachingWhat is Research? An exercise in Slow Research On September 11, 2001, the BBC World Service reported the start of a performance titled Organ2/As SLow aS Possible (ASLSP). Originally composed by John Cage in 1987, the posthumous recital in Germany was planned to contribute to “a revolution in slowness”—to be performed chord by chord—over 639 years.
August 13, 2020, Filed Under: Conservation, Featured1Preserving fragile phonographs of T. S. Eliot, Paul Bowles, Norman Bel Geddes, and others Recordings of T. S. Eliot, Paul Bowles, Pablo Picasso, and other notable 20th-century figures have been preserved after the Harry Ransom Center recently digitized 2,800 unique sound recordings in a variety of formats (read more here). Unlocking Sound Stories, a project funded in part by a generous grant from the National… read more
July 10, 2020, Filed Under: Featured1, Photography, Research + TeachingWhat makes a good picture? Trends in photography are most noticeable when they’ve recently passed out of favor. Overhead shots of lattes or potted succulents may seem like good pictures, until suddenly they’re the only things you see on Instagram. Although trend turnover is accelerated by social media, popular photographic styles have followed the same… read more
