Ghost Notes

Ghost Notes

It's a podcast about music? By the creators of 12tone and Polyphonic.

Episodes

April 15, 2025 • 89 mins

Cory and Noah discuss their recent collaboration, where they both made videos about the same song, and look at how their different perspectives and processes created two completely different analyses.


Hear new episodes a month early on Nebula: https://nebula.tv/ghost-notes


12tone

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Cory and Noah are joined by Nick from Mic The Snare to discuss the history, legacy, and practice of music piracy, all without confessing to anything.


Check out Ghost Notes on Nebula, where you can hear the new episodes a month early: https://nebula.tv/ghost-notes


12tone

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February 15, 2025 • 62 mins

Cory and Noah discuss the long-await conclusion of Cory's third-album experiment, including lessons learned and some of the unexpected highlights. (Plus why it took so much longer than expected...)


Hear new episodes a month early on Nebula: https://nebula.tv/ghost-notes


12tone

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January 15, 2025 • 59 mins

Cory and Noah discuss what makes the music of Christmas so unique, and how our relationships to it have changed over the years.


Hear new episodes a month early on Nebula: https://nebula.tv/ghost-notes


12tone

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https://www.patreon.com/12tonevideos


Polyphonic

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January 1, 2025 • 86 mins

Cory and Noah are joined by Will from Maggie Mae Fish to discuss their fascination with noise music, as well as the broader concept of noise in music, and it only took us one try to record this episode.


Check out Ghost Notes on Nebula, where you can hear the new episodes a month early: https://nebula.tv/ghost-notes


12tone

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December 15, 2024 • 70 mins

Cory and Noah discuss what makes a guitar solo and what makes the guitar so perfect as a solo instrument in the first place.


Hear new episodes a month early on Nebula: https://nebula.tv/ghost-notes


12tone

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https://www.patreon.com/12tonevideos


Polyphonic

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November 15, 2024 • 61 mins

Cory and Noah discuss the complicated world of genre revival scenes, from the folk revival of the '60s to the swing revival of the '90s to... well, to whatever's coming next.


Hear new episodes a month early on Nebula: https://nebula.tv/ghost-notes


12tone

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https://www.patreon.com/12tonevideos


Polyphonic

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November 1, 2024 • 74 mins

Cory and Noah are joined by Boundo to discuss all the various ways that people discover new music, to consider the pros and cons of different approaches, and to ramble about why that's a good thing in the first place.


Check out Ghost Notes on Nebula, where you can hear the new episodes a month early: https://nebula.tv/ghost-notes


12tone

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October 15, 2024 • 58 mins

Cory and Noah explore the surprisingly rich history of music videos made before the MTV era and ask what a music video even is.


Hear new episodes a month early on Nebula: https://nebula.tv/ghost-notes


12tone

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https://www.patreon.com/12tonevideos


Polyphonic

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September 15, 2024 • 56 mins

Cory and Noah dive into one of their favorite topics, the genre of Classic Rock, and ask what it means for rock to count as "classic" in the first place.


Hear new episodes a month early on Nebula: https://nebula.tv/ghost-notes


12tone

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https://www.patreon.com/12tonevideos


Polyphonic

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September 1, 2024 • 84 mins

Cory and Noah are joined by Lydia Bangura of Her Music Academia to talk all about the complicated world of music academia and the strengths and weaknesses of moving those discussions to more public platforms. (like this one!)


Check out Ghost Notes on Nebula, where you can hear the new episodes a month early: https://nebula.tv/ghost-notes


12tone

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August 15, 2024 • 70 mins

Cory and Noah finally resolve their bitter dispute about the death of genre by diving deep into the question of what genres are actually for.


Hear new episodes a month early on Nebula: https://nebula.tv/ghost-notes


12tone

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https://www.patreon.com/12tonevideos


Polyphonic

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July 15, 2024 • 56 mins

Cory and Noah discuss the cultural phenomenon of new album drops, the excitement of collectively experiencing a new work of art, and also get sidetracked about the new Billie Eilish album a bunch.


Hear new episodes a month early on Nebula: https://nebula.tv/ghost-notes


12tone

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July 1, 2024 • 72 mins

Cory and Noah are joined by Jessie Gender to talk about the complex process of scoring a film, drawing from Jessie's recent experience making her own directorial debut!


Check out Ghost Notes on Nebula, where you can hear the new episodes a month early: https://nebula.tv/ghost-notes


12tone

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June 15, 2024 • 70 mins

Cory and Noah talk about the effect album artwork has on the music it represents, as well as the role of packaging in the experience of art. Plus they list a bunch of cool album covers, so that's fun.


Hear new episodes a month early on Nebula: https://nebula.tv/ghost-notes


12tone

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https://www.patreon.com/12tonevideos


Polyp...

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May 15, 2024 • 53 mins

Cory and Noah talk about playing games with your listening habits, including Cory's recent experiment with only listening to third albums, and what you can gain from adding restrictions to your musical experiences.


Hear new episodes a month early on Nebula: https://nebula.tv/ghost-notes


12tone

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May 1, 2024 • 50 mins

Cory and Noah are joined by a mysterious author to announce a new and exciting book project about the history of American popular music.


Check out Ghost Notes on Nebula, where you can hear the new episodes a month early: https://nebula.tv/ghost-notes


12tone

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https://www.youtube.com/c/12tonevideos

https://www.patreon.com/12tonevideos


Polyphonic

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April 15, 2024 • 51 mins

Cory and Noah explore the impact of our unprecedented access to music through filesharing and streaming services, and as whether having so much music available all the time might actually be a bad thing?


Hear new episodes a month early on Nebula: https://nebula.tv/ghost-notes


12tone

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https://www.patreon.com/12tonevideos


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March 15, 2024 • 51 mins

Cory and Noah discuss the practice of musical standards, what makes a standard different from a cover, why we don't see many new standards anymore, and why we probably should.


Hear new episodes a month early on Nebula: https://nebula.tv/ghost-notes


12tone

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https://www.youtube.com/c/12tonevideos

https://www.patreon.com/12tonevideos


Polyphonic

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March 1, 2024 • 58 mins

Cory and Noah are joined by Tristan Johnson of Step Back to talk about the genre of Dungeon Synth, the value of microgenres, and the music's complicated origins.


Check out Ghost Notes on Nebula, where you can hear the new episodes a month early: https://nebula.tv/ghost-notes


12tone

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https://www.patreon.com/12tonevideos

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