Music
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Music, systems, and frequencies
I am driven by music. That is a fact. I was analyzing my Spotify metrics and noticed that, for several consecutive months, my monthly average has been around 11,700 minutes of listening to music. That represents approximately 195 hours per month.Considering that a 31-day month has 744 hours, this means I spend about 26% of…
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Embryodead and Embroidery
Sometimes, a text is born from a mistake. It’s been a while now, I was browsing through Spotify when I came across a song called Embryodead. But my eyes read something else: for a few seconds, I saw Embroidery. I smiled when I realized the mix-up, but the word never left my head. I’ve noticed this happens…
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The conflict between academic identity and personal identity
During my undergraduate studies, my professor Dr. Silvia used to start some classes with music. It wasn’t to analyze the melody or figure out who the artist was it was to pay attention to the lyrics, and afterwards, we would talk about what that text evoked in each of us. At that moment I didn’t…