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This is a lovely article about being an Autechre fan.
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A really nice exploration of what live piano + electronics could be like. I'm not quite sure how I feel about the actual filming: there's a lot of modular on display, which is very analogue and visible, with all its sequencers… but there's also at least one midi controller visible and if it's talking to a computer… is it disingenuous to hide a laptop? Hmn.
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Well this looks very good.
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Pretty, if a tad long, modular patch/track.
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Nice interview with Scanner with some good notes on instrumentiness and also on using the tools that are available.
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On limitation and constraint.
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How have I only just heard of this? A topic I've thought about a lot before. Must get around to this at some point.
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A favourite to borrow from the library as a child. And: what a life. I did not know he played guitar.
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"Rancho Electro is a series where a guest artist is invited to Ojai, California to collaborate on a new musical composition with Mikael Jorgensen. Utilizing traditional and electronic instruments, each group heads into the mountains above Ojai to film and record the performance of this new composition." I loved this first piece from Graph Rabbit. So nice to see interesting, melodic, electronic music performed live.
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Lovely big oral history of Kompakt, on Resident Advisor; a really good article.
Radio head
07 October 2005
Another piece of writing in the New Statesman; this time, a review of the Le Placard international headphones festival.
About 40 people are sprawled on the floor, or on an array of battered chairs and sofas. Along one wall is a row of desks and tables, behind which sit a handful of unshaven young men, backlit by Anglepoise lamps, fiddling with laptops, mixing desks and a wind-up shortwave radio. Naturally, I can’t hear any of it. So I sit down at a table and try to plug in my headphones.