11.06.2005

-taking the form of a pod cast in 3 installments/issues/casts

-break down of topic thus far:
1] obsession with music as culture
digital music: how hard/long/detailed it used to be versus today's garage band [Faubion Bowers, Daniel Kunin "The Electronics of Music" in Aspen]

2] social symbol/icon
standardization: involves interchangeability; psuedo-individualism [p.111 Bernard Gendron "Theodor Adorno meets the Cadillacs" in Du Guy]
standarization to simplify; everyone learns the system [p.202 Donald Norman "Psychology of Everyday Things"]

3] social changes
-bizarre interactions among relationships [teachers to students, husbands/boyfriends to wives/girlfriends, strangers to strangers [google-researched websites.] how to include this in the podcast??

OTHER
cladding: "we must work in such a way that a confusion of the material clad with its cladding is impossible" [p. 67 Adolf Loos. Collected Essays] reasons for cladding are numerous according to Loos--protection from weather, hygenic reasons or for a specific effect. "man is covered with skin, the tree with bark"

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