{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":"Episode 51: Cursed Be the One Who Be Listening to Music [PATREON PREVIEW]","description":"Alec and Nick bust out the evil eye amulets to discuss varieties of \u201ccursed music\u201d and what constitutes music feeling or being \u201ccursed.\u201d Following a line of thought from the archetypal Faustian bargain, malediction, ritual and sacrifice, the sacred and profane, and other concepts of curses, the discussion explores music\u2019s relationship to shit talking, punk ideology, Althusser\u2019s interpellation, Torn Hawk\u2019s performance of \u201cTrustfall\u201d at Emily Harvey Foundation,\u201d experiences with live ambient and drone music, Jack Callahan and Jeff Witscher\u2019s new \u201cMusic Songs,\u201d Cornelius Cardew\u2019s political-aesthetic agony, the gospel-like quality of metal and noise communities, presumptuous futuristic music, music\u2019s \u201cbeauty-industrial complex,\u201d the mundanity of the curse, new music\u2019s cursed individualism, and more. ","author_name":"Flavortone","author_url":"http:\/\/flavortone.libsyn.com\/website","html":"<iframe title=\"Libsyn Player\" style=\"border: none\" src=\"\/\/html5-player.libsyn.com\/embed\/episode\/id\/26829702\/height\/90\/theme\/custom\/thumbnail\/yes\/direction\/forward\/render-playlist\/no\/custom-color\/ff0000\/\" height=\"90\" width=\"600\" scrolling=\"no\"  allowfullscreen webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen oallowfullscreen msallowfullscreen><\/iframe>","thumbnail_url":"https:\/\/assets.libsyn.com\/secure\/content\/193169540"}