Composition
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Simon Littauer: You Have to Be Present
Interesting video on the work and creative philosophy of electronic artist Simon Littauer, navigating through his ideas of simplicity and complexity and the role of sound when gathering people and finding intimacy, both corporeal as well as spiritual. He talks…
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Source of Uncertainty, A Podcast Focused on Buchla
Source of Uncertainty is a monthly podcast focused on Buchla, the infinite and wonderful analog spacecraft imagined and developed by the genius of Don Buchla. The podcast started in 2019 and is fully devoted to the instrument and its community…
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Sonic Phantoms – Composition with Auditory Phantasmatic Presence
Description In this book, Barbara Ellison and Thomas B. W. Bailey lay out and explore the mystifying and evanescent musical territory of ‘sonic phantoms’: auditory illusions within the musical material that convey a ‘phantasmatic’ presence. Structured around a large body…
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The sonic possibility of written matter: Tomás Cabado, Sergio Merce and Catriel Nievas
When I first heard Especies de Basilea by Tomás Cabado, Sergio Merce and Catriel Nievas -composed by Cabado- , I felt immersed in an enclosed space in which the stream of sounds that it projects, brought warmth and comfort to…
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Sonic, Social, Distance and Soundtracks for Strange Days, compilation Part 2
Sonic, Social, Distance As more than a third of the planet’s human population has gone into some sort of social restriction…self-isolation, social isolation, physical distancing, quarantine…since those who have the luxury of walls have gone behind them–time has…
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Sonic, Social, Distance and Soundtracks for Strange Days, compilation Part 1
Sonic, Social, Distance As more than a third of the planet’s human population has gone into some sort of social restriction…self-isolation, social isolation, physical distancing, quarantine…since those who have the luxury of walls have gone behind them–time has not so…