Carrie Jenkins

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Music, Philosophy-Related

 

I am a member of the philosophy band The 21st Century Monads, whose person-parts are Kris McDaniel (The Mereological Bastard), Ben Bradley (The Lazy Monad) and myself (The Pre-Established Harmony). We write and sing geeky songs about philosophy and philosophizing. 


Recently we released a love song for the a priori, a song warning about the philosophical traps laid by W.V. Quine, and a song musing on what it takes for two people to compose a further object.  We maintain a Facebook fanpage to keep fans up to date.


You can see a video of a live solo performance of the a priori song, if that thought makes you happy.


Or you can buy Monads merchandise. (We don't make a profit from this.)

 

The 21st Century Monads are indeterminately identical to The (Original) Monads (Kris McDaniel and Shawn Larsen-Bright). I've made some remixes of Original Monads songs. My favourite of these is Descartes.  I've also covered their song Modus Tollens.

 

Another recent project is a mashup of snippets from a talk I gave in St Andrews on merely verbal disputes, with beats made in Beatmaker for the iPhone and other samples, bits and pieces. It's called Verbal.

 

 

Music, Non-Philosophy-Related

 

I once wrote an arrangement of the Tetris music to pass the time.  Only slightly less frivolously, I sometimes like to write settings of the fools' songs from Shakespeare plays. Here's an O Mistress Mine.

 

I use a Yamaha Clavinova CVP in many of my musical endeavours, and I mix with Mixcraft and GarageBand.

 

 

Words

 

Here's 'New Medium', a Twitter-themed parody of 'Night Mail' by W. H. Auden.