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May 17th, 2007 12:41pm

Miss Me When I’m Gone


Ulrich Schnauss “Stars” – When I studied photography in college, I would often think of music in photographic terms, and vice versa. That said, I don’t remember ever relating depth of field to musical composition, which is actually sorta funny given how many artists intentionally simulate that sensation in their recorded work. Ulrich Schnauss’ “Stars” is an exaggerated example of this. All of the elements in its arrangement seem to be miles apart, with some sounds deliberately foregrounded while others are out of focus and blurred. The song implies a staggering scale, and plays out like the musical equivalent of a widescreen panorama. (Click here to pre-order it from Boomkat.)

Elsewhere: My new Hit Refresh column is up on the ASAP site with mp3s from Lavender Diamond, Marnie Stern, and Gui Boratto.

Also: In the wake of my R.E.M. project, a new wave of music blogs are focusing on writing about every song in a single artist’s discography. So far we’ve got Hyper-Ballads (Björk), Emotional Karaoke (Mountain Goats), More Words About Music and Songs (Talking Heads), My Impression Now (Guided By Voices), Fragments of a Cale Season (John Cale), Too Many Words, Too Many Words (Low), I Got A Message For You (Robyn Hitchcock), More Than Ten (Pearl Jam), and Fridgebuzz, which is the first of what I assume will be at least 15 blogs dissecting the Radiohead catalog.

And: Which celebrity, who recently made the cover of People’s 100 Most Beautiful People, likes to remind you of that fact while you’re having sex with her?

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