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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Voyage into Dasha Rush’s inspiring ambient sonic worlds
Assemble, cosmonauts: Dasha Rush is an artist whose musical worlds merit repeat visits. She represents the best of what an artist straddling techno and ambient can be – with ambient sets that pulse and live, with timbral and structural freedom rather than resorting to dreary droning grays. So let’s take a break from her better-known […]
Peter Kirn - November 18, 2016
Motion Music Music tech
Enjoy the sweet sound of guitar just intonation on this album
Sorry. I’m terrible at writing headlines, actually. I’m also mostly terrible at writing reviews. So let me just say that if you haven’t heard Horse Lords, the Baltimore-based indie band, since their 2010 founding, you deserve to. And they make a great argument for why alternative tunings really do matter in music.
Peter Kirn - July 26, 2016
Music Music tech
Good Listening: Sample Unsound Festival’s Brilliant Lineup, Coming to NYC This Month [Stream]
Peter Kirn - April 9, 2012
Music Music tech
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