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NC-17 Opera
Violence and kinky sex is normally associated with Nevada whore houses, not opera…until about 10 years ago. The Regieoper or “director’s opera” productions of the Catalán theater director, Calixto...
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The World’s Largest Organ
Come see the organ! It’s even bigger than the largest whale! Locally known as morske orgulje, the “sea organ,” designed by the architect Nikola Bašić in 2005, was built in order to redesign the Zadar’s...
View ArticleFSU Marching Band plays Game of Thrones
What’s not to love about Game of Thrones? Well, other than having to wait another 189 days to watch it. College football is up there and Florida State’s marching band combined the two by pulling out...
View ArticleSynchronizing Metronomes
I think the video speaks for itself, but in case you haven’t been around these types of metronomes lately, they are light enough that energy around them can affect their undulations. There’s a deeper...
View ArticleThe Serge Modular Synthesizer and the Origins of “The Flight of the Atom Bee”
Flight of the Atom Bee by Knox Bronson It was heartbreak and the loss of a major printing account that forced me into the studio to create my first finished pieces in my newly rediscovered life as a...
View ArticleRoy Sablosky and The Blue Serge
I was lucky enough to have Roy’s Blue Serge in my arsenal of synths way back when. It was a fantastic machine, a brilliant collection of modules, devoid of oscillators, suggesting a rather warped view...
View ArticleThe Shackle Stick
Shackle is a band. They just released The Shackle Stick, a pressed paper designer memory stick containing audio and video from Shackle’s concerts. Included in the package as an added bonus is the...
View ArticleHow to tour in a band – by someone who’s done it lots
Multi-instrumentalist Thor Harris (Swans, Shearwater, Smog and more) has gained a cult following in the last couple of years for looking like a hirsute Viking and being a general percussion bad-ass in...
View ArticlePatchwerk: control a real massive modular synth from your browser
In 1973, Media Lab associate professor Joe Paradiso was an undergraduate at Tufts University. It was a time, he says, when information and parts for DIY projects were scarce, and digital synthesizer...
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Laws of Nature
First let me say that I cannot claim that this post is my own creation. I was doing some house cleaning on the site and found what lies below buried in the “drafts” folder. It was initially set up in...
View ArticleVerizon FiOS and other must-haves
When you think about working on music at home you typically think of killer gear–maybe a $6k Bottle from Blue Microphones or the newest version of ProTools HDX. It’s easy to think of the hardware as...
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