Ghost Notes

Ghost Notes

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

Episodes

March 15, 2026 66 mins

Cory and Noah discuss what it means for a song to tell a story, what makes musical stories different from other mediums, and examine many of their favorite story songs.


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12tone

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


Polyphonic

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Mark as Played

Cory and Noah take a broader view on the concept of rhythm, exploring this fundamental part of music from as many angles as they can think of.


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12tone

https://bsky.app/profile/12tone.nebula.tv

https://nebula.app/12tone

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

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


Polyphonic

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Mark as Played
January 15, 2026 72 mins

Cory and Noah discuss how decades shape our understanding of musical movements, and how they shape those movements themselves.


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12tone

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https://nebula.app/12tone

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

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


Polyphonic

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Mark as Played
December 15, 2025 60 mins

Cory and Noah attempt to discuss the way modern music discourse is often so focused on making audiences angry, rather than informing them, but then we get sidetracked into discussing how modern media in general is being destroyed from within.


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12tone

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Mark as Played
November 15, 2025 55 mins

Cory and Noah reflect on their experiences with early rock & roll from their childhoods and reflect on what that trend says about both the music and the culture it grew out of.


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12tone

https://bsky.app/profile/12tone.nebula.tv

https://nebula.app/12tone

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

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


Polyphonic

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Mark as Played
October 15, 2025 76 mins

Cory and Noah reflect on the trend of rockism, its influence on music culture, and the ways in which it misunderstands what rock is all about.


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


12tone

https://bsky.app/profile/12tone.nebula.tv

https://nebula.app/12tone

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

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


Polyphonic

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Mark as Played
September 15, 2025 58 mins

Cory and Noah consider invisible listening games, or the ways we structure our musical listening in order to get the most out of our experiences.


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


12tone

https://bsky.app/profile/12tone.nebula.tv

https://nebula.app/12tone

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

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


Polyphonic

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Mark as Played
August 15, 2025 80 mins

Cory and Noah consider the thorny question of what to do with art that you love made by people who've caused real harm.


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


12tone

https://bsky.app/profile/12tone.nebula.tv

https://nebula.app/12tone

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

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


Polyphonic

https://bsky.app/profile/polyphonic.nebula.tv

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Mark as Played
July 15, 2025 69 mins

Cory and Noah discuss the complex history of song sequels and try to figure out why they don't happen that much.


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


12tone

https://bsky.app/profile/12tone.nebula.tv

https://nebula.app/12tone

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

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


Polyphonic

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https://nebula.app/polyphonic

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Mark as Played
June 15, 2025 55 mins

Cory and Noah discuss the rich, complex music culture of Noah's home country of Canada, with a look at both how it differs from American music culture and some of the ways the two interact.


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


12tone

https://bsky.app/profile/12tone.nebula.tv

https://nebula.app/12tone

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

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


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Mark as Played
May 15, 2025 65 mins

Cory and Noah discuss the surprising impact of music venues on the music played in them, and how those impacts have shaped musical movements throughout history.


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


12tone

https://bsky.app/profile/12tone.nebula.tv

https://nebula.app/12tone

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

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


Polyphonic

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Mark as Played
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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https://nebula.app/12tone

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

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Mark as Played
March 15, 2025 60 mins

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

https://bsky.app/profile/12tone.nebula.tv

https://nebula.app/12tone

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

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


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Mark as Played
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

https://bsky.app/profile/12tone.nebula.tv

https://nebula.app/12tone

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

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

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Mark as Played
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

https://bsky.app/profile/12tone.nebula.tv

https://nebula.app/12tone

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

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


Polyphonic

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Mark as Played
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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Mark as Played
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

https://bsky.app/profile/12tone.nebula.tv

https://nebula.app/12tone

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

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


Polyphonic

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Mark as Played
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

https://bsky.app/profile/12tone.nebula.tv

https://nebula.app/12tone

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

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


Polyphonic

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Mark as Played
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

https://bsky.app/profile/12tone.nebula.tv

https://nebula.app/12tone

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Mark as Played
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

https://twitter.com/12tonevideos

https://nebula.app/12tone

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

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


Polyphonic

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Mark as Played

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