pauline oliveros
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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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Suoni per il Popolo
This post collects two previews written for Cult MTL. In honor of their upcoming 20th anniversary, I’ll be publishing a long overdue encomium to Suoni and to the Montreal experiment music community more broadly. Suoni 2015 The word “radical” literally refers to a search for roots, and so it is fitting that Montreal’s self-proclaimed festival…
Sound Propositions 