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It’s kinda funny that it’s called “program music,” given what such a term suggests in our age of computer-assisted cultural activity. That’s the term for the classical tradition in which an instrumental work has an inherent but unspoken (that is, unsung) narrative. Perhaps the best known, and best loved, example is The Sorcerer’s Apprentice, by [...]
The Social Politics of MP3 Blogs, in Real Time: Extended comments section to a blog post, in which sound artist Hans Peter Kuhn has it out with a blogger who had posted MP3s of his recordings: 433rpm.blogspot.com (via twitter.com/robinrimbaud). Here’s a very brief condensation: Kuhn: “I am one of the two copyright owner I know [...]
There must be a third round coming. These things come in threes, don’t they, like celebrity deaths and blockbuster movie franchises? The “thing” in this case is the mass popularity of — the sudden mass consciousness of — what, generally speaking, is a matter of sonic composition relegated deep in left field, in the outer [...]
The Hexawe netlabel is dependable for low budget techno, for delectable bits of video-game instrumental pop that mix everyday source material and a definite taste for the abstract. In some ways, it’s music for nobody — fans of video-game scores will find the mad variety in any given track to verge on chaos, while fans [...]
Two of the 10 most popular posts on this site during the month of may relate to Despite the Downturn: An Answer Album (cover shown at left), the recent free album download I compiled. Each track on the album is a response-in-music to a misinformed article (“The Freeloaders”) about copyright and creativity in the May [...]
Screenshot of Circuit Synth, a modular synthesizer available for the iPhone (and iPod Touch) from developer Michael Daines: How many technologies have gone the way of the patch cord — from essential tool (in this case meaning the field of analog synthesis) to extended near-obsolescence (with the rise of digital synthesis) to increasingly ubiquitous visual [...]
The software named Squiggle is an iPad audio-tool-in-progress. You draw lines, using the touch interface, and then with a slight tip of the device, the new instrument becomes playable: Brief video of Squiggle in action: Developed by Henry Chu of the Hong Kong design group pillandpillow.com. Via creativeapplications.net and twitter.com/zachlieberman.