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Liminaria / Interferenze 2022
I spent 23 June – 3 July 2022 in rural southern Italy as artist-in-residence as part of the Liminaria / Interferenze festivals. This page collects the works produced during those residencies. — dopo il diluvio is a binaural soundwalk made for headphones, following a specific route through the town of San Martino Valle Caudina (AV). This soundwalk…
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Sonic Topographies of the South
Sonic Topographies of the South: Rural Futurity as Resonance and Dissonance One of my earliest sonic memories is of the altar bells at Sunday Mass, which as a child I mistook for a literal manifestation of divine presence. And so, the discovery that this joyous sound was performed by those sneaky altar boys is one…
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Montreal, Your Ears Are My Island
NORIENT SPECIAL004 –TIMEZONES EPISODE 07: MONTREAL Montreal, Your Ears Are My Island Episode 7 of the Timezones podcast series, co-initiated and co-produced by Norient and the Goethe-Institut. This episode portrays the diverse music scenes of Montréal. Producer Esther Bourdages traces their global connections and historical roots and explores the effects of gentrification on the city’s cultural life. …
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From the Cistern
Reverb. Love it or hate it, its use has become ubiquitous since at least the advent of the bedroom studio. Digital modeling more often than not replaces natural reverb these days, and even spring reverbs and make-shift creative solutions of the past (eg. Butch Vig’s drum-tunnel as heard on Nirvana’s Nevermind) have become either fetishized or,…
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In C Remixed
Originally published at TSB in May 2010 Long time readers of this site might know that I am an enthusiastic fan of Steve Riech, and that I wrote a piece for The Silent Ballet shortly after our launch on Reich@70, the 2006 celebration of the composer’s seventieth birthday. Unbeknownst to me at the time, the Grand Valley State University New Music…
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Signs and Sensibility: On the Saturation Machine
Yet another seminar paper on Derrida, this one from Spring 2016. “For not all the parts of a thought can be complete; at least one must be ‘unsaturated,’ or predicative; otherwise they would not hold together.” -Gottlob Frege¹ “Hail, my lady Leucippe. I am miserable in the midst of joy because I see you present…
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FOOD + MUSIC [MF DOOM TRIBUTE]
RIP Daniel Dumile(July 13, 1971 – October 31, 2020) GENG PTP aka King Vision Ultra memorializes the legacy of the late MF DOOM, who died on Halloween day 2020. GENG shares some memories about NYC hip hop in the 90s, muses on the similarities between KMD and De La, and praises the enduring influence of…
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BOB OSTERTAG ~ MOTORMOUTH
Originally posted on SSGmusic, September 22, 2011 Bob Ostertag has self-released Motormouth, an album made entirely with a Buchla 200e synthesizer. You can download it for free at his site, along with much of his 30+ years of back catalog. Ostertag, a sound artist, composer, journalist, and professor currently based in San Francisco, dropped out…
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FREEDOM TO DESTROY
Esther Bourdages is an art critic, radio journalist, independent curator, and musician based in Montréal. She is an improviser of extraordinary sensitivity, bringing a playfulness to her tactile manipulation of vinyl records, sometimes outright mishandling them. This freedom to destroy is indicative of a resistance to structure and formalism, but Esther’s work can’t be easily…
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PLAUSIBLE DENIABILITY
DeForrest Brown, Jr. is a media-theorist, curator, and self-described rhythmanalyst. He releases digital audio as Speaker Music and under his own name. While he’s been based in NYC for the better part of the last decade, he was born and raised in Birmingham, Alabama, which also happens to be where Sun Ra first landed on…
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UNFOLLOW ME
Max Alper is best known for La Meme Young, his popular Instagram account turning niche experimental music jokes into dank memes. But a deep interest in music pedagogy is at the heart of everything Alper does, including his non-profit Sonic Arts For All!, an organization that puts music technology directly into the hands of K-12…
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INTO THE UNCANNY VALLEY
This episode features a wide-ranging conversation with Montreal’s Roger Tellier-Craig, known for his work with Fly Pan Am, Godspeed, Le Révélateur and others. In 2019, Fly Pan Am released C’est ça, their first record in 15 years, but their 2020 tour plans were derailed by the COVID-19 pandemic. Tellier-Craig discusses his fascination with music as…
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