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Last ThingsCursed Tuplets with Calder Hannan (Metal Music Theory)Calder Hannan is the person behind the YouTube channel Metal Music Theory and the band Florid Ekstasis, and also plays guitar in Aphelion Entity. Calder recently completed his PhD in Music Theory with his dissertation “Tactus Transformations in Metal.” He currently teaches music at Columbia and Fordham in New York City. Our conversation touches on the STEM to metal pipeline, how rhythm is viewed in academia, parallax head banging, and hiding your music theory power level. 👉 Many thanks to my patrons! Consider becoming one here: patreon.com/lastthingspodcast 👉 If you'd like to join my Discord server, yo...
2025-02-262h 07
BRIDGE podcast w/ John LambertonBrutal Scholarship: A Conversation w/ Calder HannanYou can support the BRIDGE podcast at patreon.com/lambertronix
2022-03-1558 minBRIDGE podcast w/ John LambertonBrutal Scholarship: A Conversation w/ Calder HannanYou can support the BRIDGE podcast w/ John Lamberton through Patreon at patreon.com/lambertronix
2022-03-1558 min
Lamniformes RadioLamniformes Radio Episode 55 - Calder Hannan (Metal Music Theory, Florid Ekstasis)Calder Hannan is the host of the YouTube Channel 'Metal Music Theory', where he analyzes riffs from cutting edge metal bands with equally cutting edge music theory concepts. He also plays some really gnarly death metal of his own in the band Florid Ekstasis, and is working on a PhD from Columbia in music theory, so he really knows what he's talking about! I've loved watched Hannah's videos on YouTube so I was psyched to have him on the podcast to talk about how he comes up with his videos, his thoughts on the state of metal in academia, the...
2021-07-261h 18
What, Like It's Hard?Between the Buried and Me.Calder Hannan from Columbia University in New York City shares his research on progressive metal and topic theory. Hannan examines the ways of hearing genre borrowing in the music of the influential American progressive metal band Between the Buried and Me. This paper takes topic theory as a starting point, arguing that far from being an esoteric music theory tool useful only for expanding listening to the music of Mozart and his contemporaries, it reflects a mode of listening to Between the Buried and Me that is very common and accessible.Support the show
2020-04-261h 07
XPol with Baptiste WatiezTheory & Practice: Metal Music under the Microscope – Calder HannanCalder Hannan is a Music Theorist and post-graduate student at Columbia University. In this episode we discuss his research in Extreme Metal Studies and his analytical approach to the music of Meshuggah, Car Bomb, The Dillinger Escape Plan, Between the Buried and Me, Anomalous, Bell Witch, … We also touch on the idea of heaviness, issues of form and genre admixture in metal music, ear training for metal musicians, the evolution of extreme metal studies and of the field of music theory, and much more.
2020-01-2100 min