A primer without text, there’s an MP3 of over an hour of composer James Tenney’s music available as part of the Sonic Adventures podcast series at ps1.el.net. Unfortunately, it lacks liner notes saying which tracks are included, though easily …
It often comes down to drift and to folding. Those are two key words in most any conversation with Christopher Willits about electronically mediated music, certainly when the music in question is his own. Musicians, especially those who toil in …
“What makes the thing play?” That’s the simple question asked by Charles Amirkhanian early in the first of two hours of interviews he and Bill Schechner did with player-piano enthusiasts back in the early 1970s. They’re now available as a …
Apophasis by Caul is the latest release from the estimable darkwinter.com netlabel. It’s a single, nearly hour-long track of pop-minded decay, all the threatening ambience of a horror film with none of that bothersome plot (MP3). Dark Winter …
The 12k label, run by musician Taylor Deupree, has posted a full-length preview track off Letter of Sounds, the forthcoming album by Fourcolor (born Keiichi Sugimoto, part of the quartet Minamo and the duo Fonic). “Vignette” (MP3) is a …
The first two syllables in “Conloninpurple,” the name of Trimpin’s current installation at the Ojai Valley Museum in California, are indeed in reference to composer Conlon Nancarrow. The late Nancarrow is best known for having used the player piano to …
A new version of the popular music software Ableton Live has been announced. Ableton is gearing up to release Live 6. Musicmakers will be happy to check out the Ableton website, ableton.com, and read about drag’n'drop movie importing, project …
The Fallt label regularly posts inventive electronica downloads that emphasize precision, elegance and glitch. The “spring 2006 exclusive” currenly on its site (fallt.com) is six and a half minutes of brittle minimalism: “Pumilum,” courtesy of Tonne (aka Paul Farrington), …
Quick Links, News and Good Reads: (1) Excellent interview with soundtrack composer Ennio Morricone, ever cantankerous and reticent to share (guardian.co.uk), though he does take the time to (advisedly) criticize Hollywood’s distinction between composing and arranging: “In the history …
Credited to Jon Vaughn, Carrie Gates and Scant Intone, three live tracks recorded at PAVED Arts (in Saskatoon, Canada) are testaments to the imagination-inducing powers of small sounds. Titled “Spindle” (MP3), “Needle” (MP3) and “Loom” (MP3), they …