He goes on to quote Brian Eno from a 1995 Wired inteview: “This is why the curator, the editor, the compiler, and the anthologist have become such big figures. Dan Hill, The rise and rise of shuffle mode, January 11, 2005, City of Sound photomontage, cubism, pop art, tape loops, multitrack recording, hip-hop culture, sampling, mixtapes, Ocean of Sound, filters, quotations, hyperlinking, blogging, Photoshop, layering, aggregators, adaptation, recombination, reappropriation etc.). Much of the 20th century’s art and culture could be seen as tending towards collage in form (e.g. I think the preference for randomness may also be about something else though – the increased preference for collage. Two years ago Dan Hill, the super-smart blogger behind City of Sound, picked up on the reverberations of this randomness in a great, rambling essay about the iPod Shuffle: And if shuffled iPods rule earphones, “Jack” radio stations - the randomized, no-DJ, fastest-growing radio format in the country - are ruling car stereos. As Steven Levy noted in his recent celebration of all things iPod, The Perfect Thing, Apple realized that the vast majority of iPod users choose the shuffle function as their default setting, meaning that most people are happy to listen to whatever songs come out of their iPods in whatever order. We (well, some of us) actually pay for digital music at the iTunes store.īut it’s likely that the iPod’s most lasting cultural contribution won’t be the little machine itself but the novel way we approach the data we keep in it. We carry entire music libraries (not to mention podcasts, videos, movies, pictures, contacts) in our pockets.
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We walk around with white umbilical cords, now.
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“It’s only been five years? I don’t remember life without you!” is, in the emotional geography of time, not that different from “I still recall the day we first met!” A lot has changed in those five years. The iPod turned five in October, which came as a dual shock to a lot of people. Thanks to Nother for a big poke in the iPod direction back in October.