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John Williams Is Not a Genre: How to Recognize a Musical Signature Without Reducing It to Its Best-Known Themes

Recognizing two notes or five pitches is not enough to recognize a signature. A rigorous listening approach to John Williams begins by separating recurrence, instrumentation, dramatic function, editing, pre-existing music and collective work.

After watching

After Watching The Substance: A Guide to Turning Discomfort into Formal Questions

A second-viewing guide to separating what The Substance shows from what it suggests. It does not seek to close off the film’s meaning, but to test readings of the body, the gaze, fame and self-destruction through framing, colour, editing, sound and repetition.