30 December 2024

The process of discovery

I'm an avid listener to ABC radio, especially talk radio.  I prefer radio to podcasts for the serendipity of it all.  I've just heard a discussion with musician and UMelb philosophy lecturer Jenny Judge on "Music, taste and AI".  It was an interesting discussion about education in music and styles and Spotify selections and more.  Visit ABC Listen for the podcast.  Whilst at it, I listened to JJ's folk/electronica duo called Pet Beast and I'll need to return to catch lyrics and more.  The whole event had me thinking of my discoveries and how they happened including a current fave, Knower, which I discovered after Chris Pound's recommendation of Domi & JD Beck, then hearing a trio with their influence in Weimar, then finding Knower as a "fans also like" discovery on Spotify while waiting in Hong Kong airport during my return.  They both seem pretty well known in student music circles but I hadn't known either despite Grammy nominations and more.  And harking back to the Philosophers Zone, I once emailed ABC about some excellent support ("production") music I'd heard and it turns out that host David Rutledge makes it all himself and I am mightily impressed.  DR sent links to his production music site and personal music project sites.  All interesting and worthy of discussion and listens and references to that discussion on the Philosophers Zone with Jenny Judge.   Links below.

Thanks to Jenny Judge for permission to use the pic of Pet Beast and credit to Julia Drummond for the original photo

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