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From a January 29 interview in the Wall Street Journal with musician Christian Fennesz:
Q: When you play live, your sound is more aggressive than on your recordings. Is there a difference in approach when performing?
[A:] It is a …
The mellow-afternoon, instrumental r&b and hip-hop of Odetta’s Cut & Paste Vol 2 has a 1970s vibe that’s half Sesame Street and half bachelor pad. The songs are all forged from aquatic vibraphones, …
The Wii LoopMachine is a homebrew system that uses Nintendo’s casual-gaming innovations for music-making. One thing that’s especially remarkable about the LoopMachine is that the Wii console itself is not the object of …
Now, this is a treat. A musician who goes by Loopy C has taken much of the music posted in the Disquiet.com Downstream series in 2008 — almost 250 tracks, by his count — and forged from them one long …
For Tilling the Soul, Santa Cruz, California-based musician Phil Garrison, who records as Wavespan, made music from the sounds around him, much of them recorded in the Santa Cruz area, like the …
The story goes as follows. Amon Tobin wanted to release a document of his tour for the Foley Room album, his 2007 full-length collection of dark music built from sound effects and other …
A handcrafted instrument by Mike Ford:
More on Ford at mikefordsculptures.com (via makezine.com).