November 2011
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Leonardo Rosado – Mute words
“Mute Words” is a fragile album. Gentle sounds of field recordings that are sometimes processed to tiny little flickers intertwine with floating drones, fragments of melodies and distant voices to form the eight tracks of “Mute Words”. The voices of Barbara de Dominicis, Alicia Merz and Michelle Seaman – sometimes sung, sometimes spoken – are often not more than a faint...
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Max6
I guess MaxMSP doesn’t need much introduction around here. For ages computer musician, including me, are using this application for audio and data generation. With the just released version 6 Cycling74 doesn’t primarily focus on new objects (although there are a couple), but more on an enhanced audio engine, workflow improvements and a new addition to the former trinity of Max, MSP...
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Eyvind Kang – Visible Breath
Eyvind Kang is no stranger within the grey area between experimental Jazz, Drone and Metal. One of his most prominent appearances is as a contributor to Sunn O)))’s “Monoliths&Dimensions” album. His solo work “Visible Breath”, released on Stephen O’Malley’s Ideologic Organ shows him as an avid modern composer and musician with a strong leaning...
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Pascal Savy – Liminal
Pascal Savy’s “Liminal” has been already out for quite a while now. But as it goes, there was like a hundred of other things that needed to be done first, before I could take care of this. Nevertheless no reason to let this great release pass with any comment. “Falling inward” the first track of the album starts off with beating drones and small delicate bell...
A Lesser Photographer: A Lesser Photographer - A... →
alesserphotographer:
I’m pleased to present my first manifesto for minimal photography, A Lesser Photographer: 10 Principles for Rediscovering What Matters.
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Photographers are being bombarded by content that has only further removed them from their creativity (and money). They’re…
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Jacaszek – Glimmer
To be honest, when Jacaszek “Treny” album was released in 2008, it was one the year’s albums that left me speachless. The whole piece was so dark, yet uplifting – drowning me in pastoral drones and eerie sampling snippets from what seemed to originate mostly from chamber music recordings. Haunting vocal and choral echos flickered between deep cello tones, cembalo pickings and...
