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Platypus Music Hour

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A virtual mixtape, group-conjured with Proustian alchemy.

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Several Platypus Music Hour contributors will be a part of this show, which, like our magic playlist, explores the dynamic of music and memory. Tomorrow night, Chicago peeps!

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The Platypus Music Hour is, on the one hand, just a playlist. There's no talking, no interviewing, no patter, no disquisition. Just songs.

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Such contemplation was thought to be cathartically purifying of all bias and desire. Later neoplatonists, like Plotinus and Porphyry, elaborated on Plato’s idea by locating the act of recollection not in the mind itself but off-board, in the “world-soul.”

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Many years later, Marcel Proust echoed Plato’s relation of memory and knowledge in the stark attention he paid to the involuntary quality of memory, persuasively demonstrating its unavoidably creative nature.

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Every memory a new Being, constructed effortlessly, and of an instant; simultaneously brand new and eternal. Simultaneously improbable and inevitable.

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Each episode of the Platypus Music Hour begins with a seed or "mother" song, which passed to the first of a series of collaborators, who is then tasked with allowing the piece to remind her of some other piece of music.

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his new song is then forwarded to another rememberer, who repeats the process. No single participant can see any further backwards or forwards than the single song he is given, or the single song she responds with.

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Like the word game where you change L-E-A-D to G-O-L-D one letter at a time, The Platypus Music Hour changes one song at a time, starting from, say, Satie or the Specials, and ending with, well.

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Improbable yet inevitable, uncreated by any single mind, alchemized into being by an unorganized but related–and possibly fated–collection of private memory experiences.

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We're Back! Episode 10 is Now Streaming. The Platypus Music Hour Episode 10: Not A Gloomy Bird Of Prey by Platypus Music | Mixcloud m.mixcloud.com/chris-schoen/t…

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New Streaming music, group-conjured by memory, as if Pandora or YouTube replaced their algorithms with actual human cognition and meaning! x.com/platmus/status…