Automated Beat Machine

Danny Vagnoni
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Host and writer Danny Vagnoni explores untold stories of the music world, from highs and lows to curiosities and oddities. Guests from all over the industry join to share their stories.

Episodes

  1. 27/05/2022

    Hip-hop, globalization, community: an interview with Dr. Ian Condry

    An interview with Dr. Ian Condry of MIT, an anthropologist and author of Hip-Hop Japan. Initially I intended for this interview to sync with my lofi episode, but our conversation ended up veering in a different (and still illuminating) direction, so I decided to let it stand on its own. I also ended up substantially reworking the lofi episode anyway. I hope you enjoy this little bonus episode. At some point in this interview I say gamja like (https://www.maangchi.com/recipe/gamja-hotdog) instead of genba.

    39 min

  2. 20/05/2022

    Lo-fi, no future: nostalgic loneliness at the end of the world

    On this episode, I talk about lofi beats to study/relax to as a symbol of cultural retreat and loneliness, a reaction to social trauma and young peoples' sense that there is no future. If you've ever wanted to hear about how Toonami relates to precarious labor and global ecological decline, I've got you. Sources: COVID-19, precarity, and loneliness: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/1468-5922.12673 Loneliness and love in late modernity: https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.4324/9781351133319-8/loneliness-love-late-modernity-nicholas-hookway-barbara-barbosa-neves-adrian-franklin-roger-patulny Social Acceleration, Hartmut Rosa Resonance, Hartmut Rosa How Lo-Fi Beats's Nostalgic Comfort Transcended The Memes: https://www.mtv.com/news/3161785/lofi-hip-hop-beats-anxiety-livestream-meme/ Inside YouTube’s calming ‘Lofi Hip Hop Radio to Relax/Study to’ community, Kemi Alemoru: https://www.dazeddigital.com/music/article/40366/1/youtube-lo-fi-hip-hop-study-relax-24-7-livestream-scene 25 Microgenres That (Briefly) Defined the Last 25 Years, Philip Sherburne: https://pitchfork.com/features/lists-and-guides/microgenres-25th-anniversary/ Keith Rhee, Cowboy Bebop review: https://web.archive.org/web/20120918005603/http://www.ex.org/3.4/23-anime_bebop.html Steve M., Who is Nujabes? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UWXr6AXtiRw Lofi Girl: https://www.youtube.com/c/LofiGirl Syros: https://www.youtube.com/c/syrosmusic Precarious Japan, Anne Allison Most Americans Are Lonely, And Our Workplace Culture May Not Be Helping, Elena Renken: https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2020/01/23/798676465/most-americans-are-lonely-and-our-workplace-culture-may-not-be-helping The global pandemic has deepened an epidemic of loneliness in America, Alison Cashin: https://mcc.gse.harvard.edu/reports/loneliness-in-america CNN report on hikikomori: https://www.cnn.com/2016/09/11/asia/japanese-millennials-hikikomori-social-recluse/index.html The State of Gig Work in 2021, Monica Anderson, Colleen McClain, Michelle Faverio and Risa Gelles-Watnick: https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/2021/12/08/the-state-of-gig-work-in-2021/ Lo-fi beats to quarantine to are booming on YouTube, Julia Alexander: https://www.theverge.com/2020/4/20/21222294/lofi-chillhop-youtube-productivity-community-views-subscribers Babbling Corpses, Grafton Tanner Narratives of Loneliness, Multidisciplinary Perspectives from the 21st Century, Olivia Sagan, Eric Miller

    34 min

  3. 28/03/2022

    Is Spotify Surveillance? Music, data, and the future of streaming (ft. Evan Greer)

    Sources: https://pitchfork.com/news/evan-greer-announces-new-album-spotify-is-surveillance-shares-new-song-listen/ https://pitchfork.com/news/new-spotify-patent-involves-monitoring-users-speech-to-recommend-music/ https://www.forbes.com/sites/theyec/2019/03/26/the-difference-between-marketing-to-millennials-and-generation-z/?sh=25dee0a558c9 https://www.rollingstone.com/pro/features/spotify-gen-z-survey-audio-branding-trends-1064844/ https://ads.spotify.com/en-US/culture-next/the-2020-report/ https://kealakai.byuh.edu/survey-shows-students-prefer-spotify-for-streaming-music-apple-music-is-runner-up https://www.marketingdive.com/news/study-gen-z-cares-about-issues-and-is-skeptical-of-brands/555782/ https://librarysearch.temple.edu/catalog/991036972110703811 https://librarysearch.temple.edu/articles/cdi_crossref_primary_10_1080_10714420701715365 https://newsroom.spotify.com/2020-07-09/spotify-users-have-spent-over-2-3-billion-hours-streaming-discover-weekly-playlists-since-2015/ https://theoutline.com/post/1221/the-playlist-is-the-new-album?zd=1&zi=cm7jesnr https://newsroom.spotify.com/2020-07-09/spotify-users-have-spent-over-2-3-billion-hours-streaming-discover-weekly-playlists-since-2015/ https://www.midiaresearch.com/blog/music-subscriber-market-shares-q1-2020 https://www.businessofapps.com/data/spotify-statistics/#3

    55 min
  4. A Hitpiece on Hitpiece

    06/03/2022

    A Hitpiece on Hitpiece

    A Hitpiece on Hitpiece: How an NFT Marketplace Tried To Steal Thousands of Artists' Work (ft. Left at London) On this inaugural episode, host Danny Vagnoni narrates the sudden saga of HitPiece, an NFT marketplace that tried to recommodify musical artists' work without their consent. Danny sits down with Nat Puff, Left at London, to discuss how the NFT marketplace HitPiece stole her work, how to properly pay musical artists without annihilating hectares of rainforest, and a bit about her beautiful album, T.I.A.P.F.Y.H. Neural Blender BTS artwork:https://imgur.com/a/ouAQ1KQ Sources: https://everestpipkin.medium.com/but-the-environmental-issues-with-cryptoart-1128ef72e6a3https://slate.com/technology/2022/02/hitpiece-nfts-crypto-music-controversy.htmlhttps://twitter.com/thehumanfly_/status/1488899958044516353https://the-crypto-syllabus.com/brian-eno-on-nfts-and-automatism/https://clips.twitch.tv/GoldenGoldenCobblerPraiseIt-8QLa2cKaPJgul__Khttps://twitter.com/xxofMontrealxx/status/1371479046723235840https://www.nme.com/news/music/bts-fans-threaten-boycott-hybe-over-plans-launch-nft-content-environment-3088083https://www.rollingstone.com/pro/news/oneof-nft-marketplace-quincy-jones-whitney-houston-tlc-doja-cat-crypto-1173557/https://www.nme.com/news/music/snoop-dogg-wants-to-make-death-row-records-an-nft-label-3162676https://www.rollingstone.com/pro/news/shawn-mendes-andrew-gertler-nft-marketplace-sturdy-exchange-1135558/

    49 min
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Host and writer Danny Vagnoni explores untold stories of the music world, from highs and lows to curiosities and oddities. Guests from all over the industry join to share their stories.

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  • Creator
    Danny Vagnoni
  • Years Active
    2K
  • Episodes
    4
  • Rating
    Explicit
  • Copyright
    © Copyright Danny Vagnoni and Atwood Magazine
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