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	<description>“Listen all the time, and remind yourself when you’re not listening, or else the mike and the tape recorder will get the best of you.” – Pauline Oliveros</description>
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		<title>&#8220;An Overwhelming Feeling of Confusion&#8221;: The Brain and Atonal Music</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I was referred last week to an interesting article by a fellow CFAMC composer. It talks about a new book by Philip Ball called The Music Instinct, in which he finds that there&#8217;s a neurological reason why people find it hard to enjoy atonal music by Schoenberg, Webern and the like. Apparently our brains are [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thelisteningblog.com/2010/03/an-overwhelming-feeling-of-confusion-the-brain-and-atonal-music/</link>
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		<title>&#8220;Now My Feet Won&#8217;t Touch the Ground,&#8221; Prospekt&#8217;s March, Coldplay</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The final song on Prospekt&#8217;s March, clocking in at only 2:27, is &#8220;Now My Feet Won&#8217;t Touch the Ground,&#8221; the coming to fruition of the theme of that phrase from Viva La Vida and this EP. In this song it comes to its full expression, and the lyrics seem to be accepting of death, even [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thelisteningblog.com/2010/03/now-my-feet-wont-touch-the-ground-prospekts-march-coldplay/</link>
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		<title>&#8220;Lovers In Japan (Osaka Sun Mix),&#8221; Prospekt&#8217;s March, Coldplay</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The penultimate track on Prospekt&#8217;s March is the &#8220;Osaka Sun&#8221; remix of &#8220;Lovers In Japan,&#8221; a song from Viva La Vida. It&#8217;s almost exactly the same as the album version, which is pretty disappointing, especially considering how cool the acoustic version is (which was a bonus track included in the iTunes preorder of Viva La [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thelisteningblog.com/2010/03/lovers-in-japan-osaka-sun-mix-prospekts-march-coldplay/</link>
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		<title>&#8220;Prospekt&#8217;s March/Poppyfields,&#8221; Prospekt&#8217;s March, Coldplay</title>
		<description><![CDATA[After the rocking energy of &#8220;Rainy Day,&#8221; Prospekt&#8217;s March chills out with the title track, &#8220;Prospekt&#8217;s March/Poppyfields.&#8221; It begins with a solo guitar and voice, which creates a simple yet powerful texture. The guitar itself is very thin-sounding with lots of fret noise, giving it a &#8220;fragile&#8221; sound. As the song continues, atmospherics and high [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thelisteningblog.com/2010/03/prospekts-marchpoppyfields-prospekts-march-coldplay/</link>
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		<title>&#8220;Lost+,&#8221; Prospekt&#8217;s March, Coldplay</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The sixth track on Prospekt&#8217;s March is &#8220;Lost+,&#8221; one of the four versions of the song that the band has recorded. All of them have a unique symbol after &#8220;Lost&#8221; to designate which version it is. The first to be released, &#8220;Lost?&#8221;, is a piano-solo acoustic version; &#8220;Lost!&#8221; was the track on Viva La Vida; [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thelisteningblog.com/2010/03/lost-prospekts-march-coldplay/</link>
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		<title>&#8220;Rainy Day,&#8221; Prospekt&#8217;s March, Coldplay</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The second coolest song on Prospekt&#8217;s March (at least in my opinion) is &#8220;Rainy Day,&#8221; track four. It begins with a weird piano sample for a few moments before beginning the song proper. The verse is backed by electronics, a lead electric guitar and an electric guitar with delay (the effect that makes each chord [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thelisteningblog.com/2010/03/rainy-day-prospekts-march-coldplay/</link>
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		<title>&#8220;Glass of Water,&#8221; Prospekt&#8217;s March, Coldplay</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The third track on Prospekt&#8217;s March, my personal favorite, is &#8220;Glass of Water.&#8221; The lyrics deal with living a full, satisfying life, continuing the themes of life, death and living well. The opening texture of the song through the first two verses is pretty sparse: thin electric guitars, chill drums and thin bass. But the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thelisteningblog.com/2010/02/glass-of-water-prospekts-march-coldplay/</link>
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		<title>&#8220;Postcards From Far Away,&#8221; Prospekt&#8217;s March, Coldplay</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In an interesting twist for a mainstream pop music album, the second track of Prospekt&#8217;s March is a piano solo. Clocking in at 47 seconds, &#8220;Postcards From Far Away&#8221; was written by frontman Chris Martin between recording sessions for Viva La Vida. While the piano style isn&#8217;t foreign to modern pop piano playing&#8211;alternating notes in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thelisteningblog.com/2010/02/postcards-from-far-away-prospekts-march-coldplay/</link>
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		<title>&#8220;Life In Technicolor II,&#8221; Prospekt&#8217;s March, Coldplay</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The first track on Prospekt&#8217;s March, &#8220;Life In Technicolor II,&#8221; is the full version of &#8220;Life In Technicolor,&#8221; the first track on Viva La Vida. It&#8217;s the same song, but minus the opening electronics, extended, and with lyrics, unlike the instrumental first version. It still retains the same compositionally excellent unfolding structure that I wrote [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thelisteningblog.com/2010/02/life-in-technicolor-ii-prospekts-march-coldplay/</link>
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		<title>Prospekt&#8217;s March, Coldplay</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A looooong, long time ago, one year ago to be precise, I promised that I would write a series of posts on each track of Coldplay&#8217;s EP companion to Viva La Vida, Prospekt&#8217;s March. Since then I&#8217;ve been distracted by many things and I&#8217;ve kept putting it off, but in honor of it being a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thelisteningblog.com/2010/02/prospekts-march-coldplay/</link>
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