Music Stories
Marie Wilhelmine Anders’ Frozen Music: Debussy, dance, and foghorns
In ethereal stretched harmonic recollections of Debussy, across cooly confident grooves echoing from dance floors, composer Marie Wilhelmine Anders has again constructed a rich musical reverie. I spoke to her about her process for Frozen Music, down to the bar, and how Scottish poetry fed this lush sonic landscape.
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Premiere: In new kāve LP, pre-classical Persian verse meets the machine
Machine Learning Poetry, the new LP from Tehran’s kāve, is not pastoral or pretty. It’s 10th-12 century poetry made into a brutal digital assault – machine learning sound that cuts like a full-force buzz saw. And it’s fantastic.
Connecting MLK’s death to Hip Hop, and reading on Black identity and sound
Today as the United States celebrates Martin Luther King, Jr. Day is another opportunity worldwide to reflect on Black identity in music and BIPOC and marginalized roles in music generally. Here’s some reading, including the sometimes challenging relationship between Hip Hop and King.
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Your Demoscene Moment: Organic Geometries, Acoustic Sounds, Beating Heart
Peter Kirn - June 3, 2014
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Your Soul is Glitching: Impulse, a Chilling Visual Poem on Self and Tech
Peter Kirn - August 27, 2013
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