H(ear)
Music Writing...
(from 2004)
H(ear) is an online music column and book consisting of interviews, chapters, and investigations written by Carson Arnold. As a freelance writer for various magazines and liner notes, living in the woods of Vermont, Carson widely encourages one to submit their art, writing or any interesting piece of material that you would like to share. H(ear) is accepting both promos and demos for review or any other valuable music-related subjects. If you wish to make a comment or would like to receive H(ear) weekly by email please contact Carson at carsonliveshere@yahoo.com
Thanks and enjoy!
...This is Paul talking to ya in this column of space at the end of Matt and Peter's year's-best sharings. And my answer is: the true spirit of Crawdaddy is alive in the music writings of Carson Arnold, found at the above web addresses. He has excellent taste and is a keen and sincere listener, and true music lover. Alas, his writings often veer into incoherence just when he seems ready to tell us the secret of the age, what fine music old and new sounds like and means to a discerning 19-year-old who is awake and paying attention at this moment. A few small tastes...Etc. Go read Carson. And let him turn you on to Dead Prez, as he's doing to me, his passion and sense of connection and unwillingness to buy into bullshit are so palpable...There's a tremendous wealth of music-lovin' truthtelling and personal reporting in his Track and Hear writings... I just wish he could write better, but I have a sense and a hope that that will come about naturally as he keeps doing this, puts himself out there and finds that people are reading and listening and so gets motivated to get a handle on how to communicate clearly while speaking freely and poetically...
-- Paul Williams, Crawdaddy!; May 2003; on "Where to Find the Spirit of Crawdaddy! Now That This Skin Is Being Shed."
I totally understand and appreciate what you are doing with H(ear) it's the equivalent of what fanzines used to be about. Freedom. Which is what I thought music was meant to be.
-- Nina Antonia, author of The New York Dolls: Too Much Too Soon.
...a part of the mystery that only becomes more and more intense and intensive as the days and nights relinquish control and go their own way.
-- Charles Cicirella, on writing liner notes for him.
