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This is Backstage Burrow: Uncovering the roots of today’s music. This is the cozy little tunnel where we dig into the wild, weird, wonderful stories that shaped the music blasting through your headphones right now. Composers causing chaos!
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From Clockwork to Quantum: The History of Automating Music (opens the original)
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Hi everybunny! Welcome back to the Backstage Burrow! 🐰✨ Today is a MONUMENTAL episode because we have a very special guest hopping into the tunnel: Sarah Wallin Huff! Sarah is taking over the Burrow to share her mind-blowing presentation From Clockwork to Quantum , tracing humanity’s 2,000-year quest to decouple the performer from the performance. From wind-powered hydraulics to 9th-century programmable flutes, Mozart-era musical clockwork, player pianos, and modern MIDI—are our modern panics ab
How Humans First Locked Down Their Tunes (Part 2) (opens the original)
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Welcome back to the Backstage Burrow for Episode 7! In this episode, we run zoomies through the history of Western music notation to explore how a chaotic need for standardization sparked a brilliant visual revolution. From Charlemagne’s aggressive 800 AD decree forcing the rise of "neumes"—small squiggles and dots used as memory aids—to Guido of Arezzo hyping up the drawing of actual lines on a page to unlock sight-reading, we examine how medieval innovators completely transformed the underlyin
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