Final interview of the year — I had the great pleasure of being invited to speak with Nat Lyon for his excellent Experimental Trash podcast on listen.camp. We talked about field recordings, and sound studies, and the Disquiet Junto, and digital publishing, and the creative process, among numerous other topics. Nat has a post up […]
In difficult times, paying attention to music can be an act of humanity. We turn to music not because it attracts attention, but because we want to fill our ears and souls. From Indonesia-to-Mexico collaborations to resurfacing legends, Mongolian hip hop to rethought AI, David Abravanel is back with a personal set of selections to round out the year.
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System Flow for Reaktor 6 features a 32-grain, two-sample-slot granular engine for producing drones and textures - and it's completely free. It was all born at Synthesizer Studio Berlin, a rentable studio full of classic vintage analog and early digital synths.
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I have long since lost the ability to really put together a year-end best-of list. There’s more music available these days than ever before, and in many ways more better music than ever, if “more better” can be considered a thing. I did participate this year in some year-end voting activities, and toward that end […]
The local public library has a “sound effects” CD category right next to the “soundtrack” CD category, and when the sound effects category is empty — which is pretty much all the time, suggesting all the old CDs are gone — then the two labels, which are on plexiglass, end up overlapping, which in turn […]