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John Butcher keeps jazz dangerous
John Butcher The last several years have seen a renewed interest in the saxophone, with a resurgence of sax ensembles, a reissue of Dickie Landry’s excellent 1977 LP Fifteen Saxophones and the great success of Montreal’s Colin Stetson. The popularity of Stetson’s approach to solo performance and composition has shone some much deserved light…
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Les Rumeurs (TAPE)
Stefan Christoff & Joseph Sannicandro Les Rumeurs de la Montagne Rouge, En Chœur, Convergent C20 + Digital Release (1 May 2014) Howl Arts! $7+2 shipping (contact howl arts or thenewobjective@gmail.com to order) www.howlarts.net/lesrumeurs Les Rumeurs de la Montagne Rouge, En Chœur, Convergent presents a soundscape compiled from field-recordings and piano improvisations made during the 2012 Quebec…
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Nicola Ratti ~ Ossario (Volumes I and II)
The way I work lately is focused on a live improvisation approach. Streengs is my first solo work where I practiced that way of playing. It is a work made by a single concept and the same set of instruments done in the same period. This is very important to me. It’s like keeping focused…
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Meet the lo-fi, high-end sounds of Africa
A shorter version of this interview was originally published by Cult MTL on Jun 7, 2013 in Nightlife | Cassette tapes may be disdained by many for their low fidelity and inability to shuffle, but a new generation of tape lovers has embraced the medium for those very reasons. Brian Shimkovitz isn’t one of…
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noWHere: Manifesto for Sound Artists
In December of 2012, the Italian sound artist Enrico Coniglio published noWHere – ideale manifesto per sound artists, an old-fashioned manifesto articulating a set of core values about how we as artists should approach “live electronics.” Below you’ll find my translation of this manifesto into English. The Manifesto will be presented at this page free…
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Sound Propositions 07: Lemures (Enrico Coniglio + Giovanni Lami)
This article, like all of my Sound Propositions columns, was originally published by A CLOSER LISTEN. A CLOSER LISTEN was honored to have published a translation of sound artist Enrico Coniglio’s noWHere manifesto. Coniglio described his manifesto to me as: Just a small initiative, trying to clarify / provoke the “world of live electronics.”…
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CKUT 90.3 FM ~ Montreal Sessions
Earlier this week I had the pleasure of joining Stefan Christoff, my Les Rumeurs collaborator and member of the Howl Arts collective, on CKUT 90.3 FM for the last of the Montreal sessions. Stefan and I have a tape coming out called Les Rumeurs de la Montagne Rouge, En Choeur, Convergent. It’s drawn from a…
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UN PAESE VUOL DIRE Mix by (Gianmarco del Re)
Originally posted at A CLOSER LISTEN Un Paese Vuol Dire Mix by Lostchildrennetlabel on Mixcloud I’ve been really pleased with the mixes that have been produced for this series, as they often break the mold by doing something more creative than just throwing together a bunch of tracks. “Un Paese Vuol Dire…” is this special…
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Wood Thrush Tapes Compilation Tracks
Compilation tracks on Wood Thrush Tapes Many thanks to Zachary Corsa.
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Sound Propositions 06: Giuseppe Ielasi
[Originally published at acloserlisten.com] Our friends at Experimedia are currently doing a Spotlight feature on Giuseppe Ielasi. Head over to their site to check out 28 Ielasi-related albums, and check out this playlist highlighting the many sides of this very singular talent. I know this will appear very simplistic, but I think that choosing to…
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Bogart’s Select Hip Hop Instrumentals
My boy Gabe Bogart selected some tops instrumentals and I mixed them together. Selected by Gabriel Bogart Dubbed by the new objective A while back I started asking Gabe for suggestions on hip hop producers, and quickly invited him to put together a mix on this theme. He sent me this HUGE four hour playlist,…
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The Kids Are Not Alright
Read more here. Published in Vol 10 of The Carceral Notebooks. (A great honor to be included in the same table of contents as Lauren Berlant.) Samuel Galloway and Joseph Sannicandro THE KIDS ARE NOT ALRIGHT? This sound collage was assembled by layering the audio from 15 gay pornographic videos featuring older men with…
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