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On Designing New Musical Controllers
A while back I wrote about MIDI hardware controllers which are used by musicians who want to control their computer software. (You can read the post here.) Why does one need a controller when...
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Remixing Is A Curious Thing
“The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one’s self of the chains that shackle the spirit.” – Igor Stravinsky To a composer used to putting together notes on a page (or notes on the...
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On Marcus Boon’s In Praise Of Copying
Marcus Boon’s recent book, In Praise Of Copying (Harvard University Press, 2010), is a timely argument in favor of our freedom to freely copy one another in the name of healthy creativity. Boon, a...
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(Im)Perfect Congruence: On Dancing To Music
There’s a funny and almost disturbing video on YouTube that shows a couple apparently dancing to the angular beats of Autechre. The video is funny and strangely compelling because of its unlikely...
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On The Trickle Down Of Electronic Dance Music Aesthetics III: Acousmatic...
“All cultural change is essentially technology-driven.” – William Gibson This year’s Grammy Awards featured the first ever performances of live electronic dance music, showcasing the DJs David Guetta...
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Content, Form, And Versioning A Song Everybody Knows: Gotye’s “Somebody I...
Sometime not overly long ago, Gotye’s song “Somebody I Used To Know” went very viral–becoming a song meme that was (and still is) hard to escape, whose video on YouTube has been viewed an astonishing...
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On Ricardo Villalobos and Max Loderbauer’s Re: ECM
The record label ECM has long interested me, ever since I used to buy second-hand jazz LPs as a teenager. (And I wrote earlier ECM-related blog posts here and here.) The brainchild of German producer...
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On Four Tet Remixing “Thriller” In Ten Minutes
I recently watched and re-watched a wonderful video in which Kieran Hebden (aka Four Tet) remixes Michael Jackson’s Thriller as part of the “Beat This” series. The challenge is to make a remix in ten...
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