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From Wires: Keith Fullerton Whitman’s Modular Music, Conversation with CDM, 12 Hours of Music
We make music through objects, whether instruments or machines. And so we have this relationship between our ideas and those objects, between our imagination and the imagination of the people who built them. Talking to Keith Fullerton Whitman about his suitcase of modular gear, then, wasn’t just geeking out. It was a chance to understand […]
Read moreMusic from Patch Cords, in the Studio with Jimmy Edgar and KOMA Elektronik [Create Analog Music]
Modular music may be associated with densely-layered, sometimes-indecipherable ambiences, but Jimmy Edgar weaves funk and synthesized electro-dance into songs fed by his Detroit roots. (Jimmy’s now on Hotflush, formerly Warp Records, !K7, Poker Flat) In a studio tour with boutique analog maker KOMA Elektronik, he shows off their FT-201 sequenced filter and gestural control on […]
Peter Kirn - August 31, 2012
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Matmos: New Music, Parapsychological Experiments, Sensory Deprivation Goggles, Irish Covers
It’s a fitting way to honor computer music: Matmos produced an electronic reimagining of computer pioneer Alan Turing’s favorite tune, the Irish traditional song “Molly Malone.” The results are haunting, made more so by Mr. Turing’s untimely demise and unjust prosecution for his open homosexuality. (According to legend, he played it on violin to the […]
Peter Kirn - August 7, 2012
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