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There are few pleasures as richly kaleidoscopic as the Rashomon of Remixing: the online beat battle.
Two of the foremost beat fight clubs are located at cratekings.com and stonesthrow.com. In the message boards at both sites, disparate producers, …
The song “Seberg’s Paper” by Unyo is not the standard Hexawe release. Hexawe is the name of a netlabel, and the music released on it tends to sound like anarchic video arcades partying after …
Many producers, Brian Eno among them, have spoken about how they essentially literally test-drive recordings-in-progress by putting them on cassette tape and trying them out in their car. The idea is to hear the audio not as massive, professional studio …
Over at the artsjournal.com/gap of Molly Sheridan, a bunch of us are this week talking about (well, writing about) the recent book The Whuffie Factor: Using the Power of Social Networks to Build Your Business by Tara Hunt, and …
Listen through the noise. Listen through, as if trying to see something hinted at off in the distance, through fences and trees, past throngs of people, well after dark. There’s something out there, for …
Because so many of the releases via the touchradio.org.uk website are raw field recordings, it’s difficult to tell with Nacre, its most recent offering, where the performance ends and where the setting begins.
It is a performance, a composed …
Photo of Janet Cardiff’s 40-Part Motet, reportedly taken at Fontevraud Abbey in France, where it is currently installed:
The more times this work is presented, the more the individual speakers stop looking like …