A safe harbour where philosophy and music can meet.
My idea is a synthesis, a constant discourse between philosophical ideas and modern popular music. My aim is not only to recognize the ideology inherent in consumption, but to simultaneously approach a social analysis. After all, music accompanies us at all times and in all places. It has become a necessary part of us and through it – so my thesis – we can approach the essence of all things.
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The Music of ‘All Quiet on the Western Front’.
A philosophical and aesthetic defense. Photo by the author. The German war film has a dark past in which the medium of music plays a role as crucial as editing and camera work. An essential study on this topic for German film history is the appendix on propaganda and Nazi war movies from Siegfried Kracauer’s…
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SLEEP: Tranquility Base by Max Richter | Album Review
Photo by the author. The human voice has always had a prominent place in Max Richter’s work. Be it on his 2002 album Memoryhouse or on his late works All Human Beings — International Voices and Voices (Pt. 1 & 2), which are definitely brought to their peak in terms of aesthetic execution. Grace Davidson has long…
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Art encountered by Art: 12 by Ryuichi Sakamoto
One man, one sea. Tumultuous waves that whip up foam. Dune-like sand, interwoven with vegetation that is struggling for air. About three quarters of the picture are made up of the sky, which is largely kept in a cool blue and gradually gets darker towards the sea, so that the clouds and the horizon blur…