The New Analog
Damon Krukowski argues that this is the opposite of signal - and we have stopped paying attention to it.
Noise
According to David Byrne, this largely determines how art is created.
Context
Perhaps the oldest form of establishing external memory by creating an image of a scene or event (thus enabling remembering).
Painting
Your CAP leader.
Lauren Steege
What holds the entertainment experience together.
Us
The rapid development of integrated circuits which follow a pattern of doubling in power and capacity every eighteen months.
Moore's Law
The particular piece of equipment that first made music ‘on the go’ and a completely internal listening experience.
Walkman
This emerged from the mass reading of mass-produced print (e.g. newspapers).
Shared societal memory
Your staff mentor.
Michelle McIllece
The result of a unique, consistent and strategized promotion effort.
Branding
The closer a sound source is to a mic, the mellower its tone; and the farther a sound source, the thinner its sound.
Proximity effect
Venues that were purposefully built to play ‘performerless’ music - that is, without stages or live musicians.
Discos
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The publishing industry effectively began with this invention in the mid-15th century.
Printing press
Claudia Chiappa
The music streaming platform choice of your amazing FYS professor.
Deezer
Swipe left or right, thumbs up or down, 1 or 0.
Digital logic
The small venue/bar where The Talking Heads frequently performed.
CBGB
Engaging in routine tasks many times will eventually commit them to this type of memory.
Procedural memory
A holistic learning environment at the heart of campus, this entity provides academic support and guidance to help you get the most out of Coe.
The Learning Commons
The title of the episode of Black Mirror that we watched in class.
Nosedive
POTS, for short.
Plain Old Telephone Service
This composer constructed Bayreuth in the 1870s, an opera house that included an enlarged orchestra pit to better accommodate the music he imagined.
Richard Wagner
This entity began to usurp much of the script environment in the mid-to-late first millenium CE by controlling libraries (monasteries) and the scribes within them.
Catholic Church
The location of your advisor’s office.
Nassif House
The name of your brilliant instructor’s high school band’s debut album.
Can Anyone Really Love You?