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loopaaa online drum sequencer
Check out this toy.
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BYO Brain
It looks as though someone has been reading my mind (or more honestly, all my good ideas are already taken). The REGEN Juice Bar in Toronto are putting on a gig called Regenerative Brainwave Music: ElectroBrainFunk. blurb follows: What happens when a building reads your thoughts? What if music responded to your mind? REGEN3 will…
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Somethin’ for Nothin’
Signal vs. Noise has generated a goodly amount of debate with several reader comments on their piece about iTunes: go here to read them.
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Small Black Box
This weekend, those in BrisVegas should spend $7 to check out Small Black Box, “a performance and listening space dedicated to experimental music and sound art, held at the Institute of Modern Art in Brisbane, Australia”. In the box this month: Toy Satellite’s Andrew Garton & Justina Curtis present “D3 – From Drift to Dérive”,…
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Intelligent Sonic Environments
I have recently fantasized about clubs (or “concert” halls) as intelligent spaces, whereby the DJ/musician/sound artist would be even less a producer, and even more of a conduit or channel through which the sound and the crowd’s collective identity would move: the club would sense the size and mood of the crowd, would even measure…
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iTunes iSbogus
Again, sonic proliferation as strategy from “below”: check out the radically snazzy Down Hill Battle’s (as in, the RIAA is fighting an uphill one!) stylish manifesto: iTunes iSbogus An excerpt from the warcry: Steve Jobs says the Music Store is “revolutionizing music.” What an impoverished imagination he has. An expensive jukebox and a long-playing walkman…
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Subcultures and Sonic Proliferation, Part 2 (A Work in Progress)
A Sonic Landscape of Epidemic Proportions To start, some almost laughably obvious but nevertheless fundamental points about the impact of digital media on music consumption (and production): firstly, there is an enormous amount of digital music “out there” (here?) on the internet. Secondly, this music agglomerates, migrates, and proliferates in an apparently chaotic manner, at…
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Subcultures and Sonic Proliferation, Part 1
Sebastian Chan, who is the editor of the snappy electronic music mag Cyclic Defrost and runs the Youth – Sound – Space forum emailed me today in response to last week’s blog entry Gatekeeping the Fruity Loops Revolution. Quite a vigorous email discussion ensued, which needs editing but I’ll post now as background to my…
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Cardboard Resistance: Deconstructed Rock and the Politics of Authenticity
CTHEORY.NET > Cardboard Resistance: Deconstructed Rock and the Politics of Authenticity by Phillip Vannini
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Constructing the Popular Canon
Popular Culture and Cultural Studies (and that’s culture with a capital “c”) bible PopMatters have released their list of The Top 100 Songs FROM 1977 – 2003. I’ll be back with some thoughts on popular music canons.