From the Machine

Part 1/2 of us venting about genres that suck

Punk sucks † metalcore sucks † bro country sucks

Words by Matt Stretz, Zac Strum, & Conner Tomlinson

Overworking † Momentum † Creativity

Words by Ethan Bowen, Hayden Inman, Mason Kinder, Matt Stretz, & Conner Tomlinson

Part 2/2 of our conversation about music taste

Genre crossover † Articulating form & function † Listening functions

Words by Ethan Bowen, Douglas Stevens, Zac Strum, & Conner Tomlinson

Part 1/2 of our conversation about music taste

Taste aversion † Enculturation † Expanding taste

Words by Ethan Bowen, Douglas Stevens, Zac Strum, & Conner Tomlinson

We'll be back to our regularly scheduled programming next week, but first here's the audio recording from a 2022 business conference where Conner discusses what independent artists and educators can learn from industrial music.

Part 2/2 of our digression into academic discourse.

Rhetorical theory † Entrepreneurial ecologies † Mythologies of warfare and virality † Bricolage

Words by Conner Tomlinson

Due to a confluence of scheduling conflicts and technical issues, we're briefly changing up the format. This week features a reading from an article Conner wrote about the ideology and pragmatics of industrial music.

Part 1/2 of our digression into academic discourse.

Genealogy † Organizational autonomy † Access to information & extra-musical elements † Anti-music † Shock tactics

Words by Conner Tomlinson

Part 2/2 of our conversation about innovative merch ideas

Reading trends † VHS revivalism † Analog and digital information

Words by Ethan Bowen, Zac Strum, & Conner Tomlinson

Part 1/2 of our conversation about innovative merch ideas

Branded widgets † Fashion † Individuality & collective identity † Attempted taxonomy

Words by Ethan Bowen, Zac Strum, & Conner Tomlinson

Part 2/2 of our conversation about the relationship between art and sport

Artful plays † goal-orientation † Zac's jump rope rant † aesthetics vs utility † the art of the granny shot

Words by Ethan Bowen, Kyle Dekaney, Zac Strum, & Conner Tomlinson

Part 1/2 of our conversation about the relationship between art and sport

Karate & kendo † scoring & regulation † mixed martial arts † Olympics † self-defense & reflex † e-sports † historic plays

Words by Ethan Bowen, Kyle Dekaney, Zac Strum, & Conner Tomlinson