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Day Trips for Nihilists
Neil Fitzgerald
7 episodes
2 months ago

A meandering essayistic mix of music, film and literature, field recordings, and humour, all with one goal in mind: to provide a short audio day trip for nihilists wherein they slow down and enjoy the world.


All music clips and recordings are (hopefully) either out of copyright or used under fair usage.


To get in touch: daytripsfornihilists@gmail.com or neil-fitzgerald.com.


Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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A meandering essayistic mix of music, film and literature, field recordings, and humour, all with one goal in mind: to provide a short audio day trip for nihilists wherein they slow down and enjoy the world.


All music clips and recordings are (hopefully) either out of copyright or used under fair usage.


To get in touch: daytripsfornihilists@gmail.com or neil-fitzgerald.com.


Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Arts
Music,
Society & Culture,
Philosophy
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On Melancholy
Day Trips for Nihilists
29 minutes 36 seconds
4 months ago
On Melancholy

Running order of the 'culturescape':


  • A Young Blackbird Dies in My Hands, Appernack
  • Hamlet soliloquy 'I have of late but wherefore I know not...' from the film Withnail & I (1989, Richard E Grant as Withnail)
  • Dido's Lament - 'When I Am Laid in Earth' from Dido & Aeneas, Henry Purcell - Kirsten Flagstad
  • Philip Larkin reading his poem Home Is So Sad
  • Chopin's Prelude 13, Op.28 played by Alfred Cortot
  • 'The Optimism of Melancholia | Slavoj Žižek | Big Think' (excerpt)
  • Fading Lights Are Fading, Set Fire To Flames
  • Clip from Melancholia - 'Justine and Claire' (2011, Lars von Trier)
  • Richard Wagner, Tristan und Isolde prelude
  • Various field recordings from freesound.org


For more info about the curator: neil-fitzgerald.com


If you have an idea for a theme, or want your music or field recording used in a future episode: daytripsfornihilists@gmail.com


Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Day Trips for Nihilists

A meandering essayistic mix of music, film and literature, field recordings, and humour, all with one goal in mind: to provide a short audio day trip for nihilists wherein they slow down and enjoy the world.


All music clips and recordings are (hopefully) either out of copyright or used under fair usage.


To get in touch: daytripsfornihilists@gmail.com or neil-fitzgerald.com.


Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.