Ghost Notes

Cory and Noah discuss the cultural phenomenon of new album drops, the excitement of collectively experiencing a new work of art, and also get sidetracked about the new Billie Eilish album a bunch.

Cory and Noah are joined by Jessie Gender to talk about the complex process of scoring a film, drawing from Jessie's recent experience making her own directorial debut!

Cory and Noah talk about the effect album artwork has on the music it represents, as well as the role of packaging in the experience of art. Plus they list a bunch of cool album covers, so that's fun.

Cory and Noah talk about playing games with your listening habits, including Cory's recent experiment with only listening to third albums, and what you can gain from adding restrictions to your musical experiences.

Cory and Noah are joined by a mysterious author to announce a new and exciting book project about the history of American popular music. Check out Ghost Notes on Nebula, where you can hear the new episodes a month early: https://nebula.tv/ghost-notes 12tone https://twitter.com/12tonevideos https://nebula.app/12tone https://www.youtube.com/c/12tonevideos https://www.patreon.com/12to

Cory and Noah explore the impact of our unprecedented access to music through filesharing and streaming services, and as whether having so much music available all the time might actually be a bad thing?

Cory and Noah discuss the practice of musical standards, what makes a standard different from a cover, why we don't see many new standards anymore, and why we probably should. Hear new episodes a month early on Nebula: https://nebula.tv/ghost-notes 12tone https://twitter.com/12tonevideos https://nebula.app/12tone https://www.youtube.com/c/12tonevideos https://www.patreon.com/12tone

Cory and Noah are joined by Tristan Johnson of Step Back to talk about the genre of Dungeon Synth, the value of microgenres, and the music's complicated origins.

Cory and Noah discuss Spotify Wrapped and the growing trend of datafication in music listening.

Cory and Noah discuss the idea of the greatest song ever, and the cultural significance of even asking that question in the first place.