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The strings are filtered through feedback loops, clipped and set on repeat like an album that’s reached the end of its groove. These strings — acoustic guitars in particular, and also what sounds like a banjo — are heard amid …
Sounds sourced from the real world and transformed into something either unreal or hyperreal serve as the foundation of a new compilation from the furthernoise.org netlabel. It is titled Explorations in Sound, …
One of many new music-creation interfaces for Apple’s iPhone — an electronic kalimba, or African thumb piano:
Image by John Biehler (johnbiehler.com), via Peter Kirn’s createdigitalmusic.com.
Recent Twitter post by Josh Santangelo (endquote.com, stimulant.io), a Seattle, Washington-based web developer:
Ordered a Tenori-On (tenori-onusa.com). Soon, there will be one more crappy amateur electronic musician in the world.
Original at twitter.com/endquote.
When downloading Joseba Irazoki’s new EP, Negurdin, from the con-v.org netlabel, if your time and bandwidth is limited, stick with the odd-numbered tracks. Irzaoki is one of the most interesting guitarists today …
The aspiring hip-hop producers who populate the forums at cratekings.com work together for mutual musical benefit — and not only by commenting on each other’s work and pushing the collective to tweak …
There’s something about Eastern-bloc electronic music that often suggests a heavy influence of synth-rock, the soundtracks of Golem, the space explorations of Cluster, the melodic drones of Tangerine Dream. Veron, of Budapest, Hungary, …