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Tech NewsRecord a Duet with Yourself, Mediated by a Wall
Disquiet Junto Project 0115: Mediated Solo Duet Each Thursday at the Disquiet Junto group on SoundCloud.com a new compositional challenge is set before the group’s members, who then have just over four days to upload a track in response to the assignment. Membership in the Junto is open: just join and participate. This project was … Continued
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Texture First
Rawore’s “Industrial Sands” is pure texture as foreground, a slow roil of granulated sound running at length — like a sour pipe organ heard through a veil of vinyl surface noise. It’s sound as fabric, to be enjoyed not for some pre-determined melodic procession but for slight variations playing out in realtime. Track originally posted … Continued
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Disquiet Junto Project 0114: Five Sines
Each Thursday at the Disquiet Junto group on SoundCloud.com a new compositional challenge is set before the group’s members, who then have just over four days to upload a track in response to the assignment. Membership in the Junto is open: just join and participate. Tracks by participants will be added to this playlist as … Continued
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When Is a Beat a Drone?
Leslie Rollins’s “30 Minute Drumming for Journeying” appears to be exactly that, a rhythmic sonic space to get mentally lost in. Technically it isn’t a drone, in that it has a steady, distinct beat, but a drone can also mean a steady repetitive sound, and on that count this is most certainly a member of … Continued
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Sludge Arcade Techno
Glia’s “[[ LOW ]” is expert sludge techno, the beat the sound of gears dripping with dirty axle grease, trying to make traction but slipping often enough to make the whole thing sound temporary, fragile. The track doesn’t linger in the dark, either. The playful addition of some arcade-quality sounds, as much pinball as Galaga, … Continued
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Record a Piece of Music Inspired by Groundhog Day
Disquiet Junto 0113: Pretty Groundhog Each Thursday at the Disquiet Junto group on SoundCloud.com a new compositional challenge is set before the group’s members, who then have just over four days to upload a track in response to the assignment. Membership in the Junto is open: just join and participate. Tracks by participants will be … Continued
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Even Sine Waves Have Terroir
Dave Seidel has released an album composed of sine waves, those near and about the ~60 Hz range. That’s the title of his album, ~60 Hz, and I was honored to be asked by him to write a liner note for the record’s release. The digital version went live today at irritablehedgehog.com, and CDs are … Continued
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Turn Your Week’s Dayplanner into Music
Disquiet Junto Project 0112: Calendrical Score Each Thursday at the Disquiet Junto group on SoundCloud.com a new compositional challenge is set before the group’s members, who then have just over four days to upload a track in response to the assignment. Membership in the Junto is open: just join and participate. This project was published … Continued
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Elizabeth Veldon’s Winter Drones
Elizabeth Veldon, a Glasgow-based musician, has been posting a series of winter-themed drones with titles like “glengoyne surrenders to winter and all the valleys fill with snow” and “a winter song for faze (sleep, sleep/ snow had fallen)” and “the lower levels of angels, even, are bathed in grace (for lilly).” They sound true to … Continued
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Tech NewsLive Arvo Pärt Cover by A Winged Victory for the Sullen
A Winged Victory for the Sullen is the name employed by Adam Wiltzie (of Stars of the Lid) and composer Dustin O’Halloran when working in tandem. They have, together, committed wonderfully drone-informed explorations of what might be called contemporary classical, except to the extent that so many of its participants welcome the word “classical” with … Continued
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Disquiet: 15, 10 & 5 Years Ago This Week (2014.07)
This would be roughly the week of February 10 through February 16. 5 Years Ago (2009): I feel like I’ve been listening to Diego Bernal’s tremendous atmospheric old-school hip-hop instrumentals for much longer than five years, and perhaps I have, but according to my searches, I first wrote about them five years ago this week; … Continued
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Tech NewsAphex Twin SAW2 Countdown: Track 1 (“Cliffs”)
And this marks the final entry in the track-by-track reverse countdown to the release, on February 13, 2014, the day prior to Valentine’s Day, of my book in the estimable 33 1/3 series. It is a love letter to Aphex Twin’s album Selected Ambient Works Volume II, which will mark its 20th anniversary this year, … Continued
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Rework Music from Three Creative Commons Netlabels
Disquiet Junto Project 0111: Acts of Commons Each Thursday at the Disquiet Junto group on SoundCloud.com a new compositional challenge is set before the group’s members, who then have just over four days to upload a track in response to the assignment. Membership in the Junto is open: just join and participate. Tracks by participants … Continued
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Tech NewsAphex Twin SAW2 Countdown: Track 2 (“Radiator”)
I am going to do this track-by-track countdown to the release, on February 13, 2014, the day prior to Valentine’s Day, of my book in the estimable 33 1/3 series. It is a love letter to Aphex Twin’s album Selected Ambient Works Volume II, which will mark its 20th anniversary this year, less than a … Continued
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Tech NewsAphex Twin SAW2 Countdown: Track 3 (“Rhubarb”)
I am going to do this track-by-track countdown to the release, on February 13, 2014, the day prior to Valentine’s Day, of my book in the estimable 33 1/3 series. It is a love letter to Aphex Twin’s album Selected Ambient Works Volume II, which will mark its 20th anniversary this year, less than a … Continued
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Tech NewsAphex Twin SAW2 Countdown: Track 4 (“Hankie”)
I am going to do this track-by-track countdown to the release, on February 13, 2014, the day prior to Valentine’s Day, of my book in the estimable 33 1/3 series. It is a love letter to Aphex Twin’s album Selected Ambient Works Volume II, which will mark its 20th anniversary this year, less than a … Continued
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Disquiet: 15, 10 & 5 Years Ago This Week (2014.06)
This would be roughly the week of February 3 through February 9. 5 Years Ago (2009): Highlight of the week was definitely a two–part overview of an incredible exhibit of graphic scores at the New Langton Arts gallery in San Francisco. My photography was especially terrible, but there’s lots of documentation. These included work from … Continued
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