4 articles
If a tree falls in a forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound? From Schulhoff's silent score, Cage's 4'33", Duchamp's Fountain to Rauschenberg's White Paintings—exploring the boundaries of music and how silence becomes the loudest listening.
An in-depth analysis of ROSALÍA's core single "Divinize" from the album "LUX". The article starts from the rhythmic dislocation of the 5/4 time signature, combined with the reconstruction of mysticism and religious imagery, exploring how pop music internalizes the "female body" and "divinity". An interdisciplinary music review that weaves between sensory experience and cultural text.
A close reading of ROSALÍA's “Reliquia” from LUX: beginning with the religious meaning of the relic, and moving through the lyrics, arrangement, and musical structure, this essay explores how the song rewrites loss as preservation and gives voice to a sacred yet uneasy modern self.
A close reading of ROSALÍA’s opening track on LUX, from its Ravel-like piano haze and operatic recitative to its Picardy-third resolution, using Lu Xun’s idea of “no-place” to think through the song’s collision of earthly desire and sacred longing.