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the ice factory (disquiet)
This week’s Disquiet exercise: More fun with Ableton Live. Continue reading
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the boatman’s dream (at year’s end).
My second attempt at a Disquiet Junto project. I had to sit out last week’s junto as that called for a ‘musical diary’ using work from throughout the year, and I’ve only been doing this again since June. Embarrassing, that. Fortunately, there’s no pressure, so I’ll just do it as I can. So, for this… Continue reading
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never again (disquiet junto)
I’d been lurking (and listening) to the Disquiet Junto group over at SoundCloud for a few weeks, and finally grew the stones to post something: This week’s assignment had us generating a core rhythm using an arbitrary phrase, put into Morse code, and then building on that. The bar’s pretty high over there, but I… Continue reading
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always on a friday…
…another shooting. This one at a school in Connecticut. Twenty young kids, dead. Even the President, himself with kids in school, tears up a little as he talks about it. I have nothing to add or say that hasn’t been added or said. I just want to remember that (at this time, anyway) the Consensus… Continue reading
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The Flowers. Where they at?
From this article in The Quietus: Modern pop music began as the ultimate expression of democratic populism in the post-war years, but it is now some way into its decadent, baronial phase. When things have become so damnably hierarchical, it’s no wonder there hasn’t been a society-wide countercultural upsurge in years. We haven’t been getting… Continue reading
no peanuts in church... 