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OTHER MUSIC / Re: What are you listening to?

« on: May 19, 2011, 03:09:41 pm »

listening to Nadja a lot lately.
now: nadja - touched.
i really can relax to them.

also i saw barn owl some days ago and bought their album ancestral star after the show. beautiful music on that.

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OTHER MUSIC / Re: You are the proud owner of a turntable

« on: May 19, 2011, 03:05:06 pm »

it was a pleasure to be of service!
fingers crossed for many great samples to arrive you!

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ACOUSTIC ELECTRIC / Re: the Strymon El Capistan tape looper pedal

« on: May 17, 2011, 02:37:56 am »

celemony anounced a product (celemony capstan) that can remove wow and flutter effects from tape recordings.
http://www.celemony.com/cms/index.php?id=capstan

i wonder what happens if you feed it with recordings from el capistan?

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OTHER MUSIC / Re: You are the proud owner of a turntable

« on: May 13, 2011, 04:04:40 am »

Deal!

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THE FUTURE OF THE MUSIC BUSINESS / Re: if 12k weren't to exist as a label...

« on: May 12, 2011, 02:39:48 am »

I think most serious music fans are not going to mind shelling out a bit of cash for the music they really like and as for the rest?  If someone downloads something for free but never gets round to listening to it, why should we really care?

that's a good point. there's definitely a discrepancy between the illegally downloaded albums and the actual albums potentially not sold because of the download.
i think the problem is not in the numbers but rather it's a risk: that someone downloads something, who may not listen to it, but shares it to 100 others. it makes no difference whether the first downloader listens to it or not as long as he shares it to people, who do. but who can tell if they will? so in the end the question - again - is: is it really worth caring about this?

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OTHER MUSIC / Re: You are the proud owner of a turntable

« on: May 12, 2011, 02:33:13 am »

any vinyl? restrictions in terms of style or such? something new or something old? or or or or ... i can't decide without any restrictions ;-)

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SELF PROMOTION / Re: Le Berger - Expeditions on the Grayscale

« on: May 10, 2011, 01:11:23 am »

this excellent album just got reviewed on fluid-radio:
http://www.fluid-radio.co.uk/2011/05/le-berger-expeditions-on-the-grayscale-one-tiny-two-medium-and-a-grand-one/

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SYNTHESIZERS + SOUND-MAKING HARDWARE / Re: Mutable Instruments Shruti-1

« on: May 05, 2011, 02:17:40 am »

i'd like to have a true stereo version of the sidekick+shruti-filter-of-your-choice, but without the actual shruti. just as filterbank.
but then, i could also get a vermona or sherman filterbank. :-)

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OTHER MUSIC / Re: What are you listening to?

« on: April 26, 2011, 02:16:48 pm »

spend way too much money at my local record dealer. bought:
william fitzsimmons - gold in the shadow
tv on the radio - nine types of light
ian simmonds - the burgenland dubs
peter broderick & machinefabriek - blank grey canvas sky
explosions in the sky - take care, take care, take care
low - c'mon

will take me days to listen through this.

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OTHER MUSIC / Re: What are you listening to?

« on: April 25, 2011, 11:14:26 am »

i'm having a somewhat spectral afternoon with stephan mathieu's a static place and remain.

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COMPUTER MUSIC / Re: lightweight software for the travelling man

« on: April 25, 2011, 11:12:44 am »

in this cases my first guess is always renoise.
it's cheap, you can install as many instances as you like, on basically each relevant operating system. your license is not coupled to a computer or dongle.

it's a tracker, you may like it or not, BUT even if you don't like trackers it may be usefull:
it has a neat little sampler and wave editor for samples built in, and it can host vst plugins and instruments (which you can sample then). and you can play it with your qwertzy keyboard (sounds pretty useless, but in fact it's a feature one will really value high when no midi keyboard is available).

make some sounds, edit some loops, whatever, play around and then export as wave file for later fun at home.

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COMPUTER MUSIC / Max Mathews passed away

« on: April 22, 2011, 02:20:21 am »

Computer music pioneer Max Mathews died on the morning of 21 April 2011 of complications from pneumonia.
As probably many know, Mathews was a pioneer in the fields of formal languages for music synthesis, speech synthesis and controllers for synthesizers.
A recent interview with Mathews can be accessed via the computer music journal here.

That's been a sad day yesterday. The day started with the news that Gerard Smith, TV On The Radio bassist, died of cancer. Now, 24 hours later, Mathews.
I'm into indie-rock in general, but TV On The Radio are just a league of their own. Saw them live two years ago and cannot think of them without Gerard Smith.

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SELF PROMOTION / imperfect objects for perfect moments

« on: April 19, 2011, 09:09:44 am »

I'm happy to announce that my debut EP is now available on bandcamp:
http://ab-arts.bandcamp.com

The recordings have been made during the last years, and although some might be qualified as songs and some might not, all of them share a common theme of imperfections, noises and distortions.
I didn't plan to release it physical originally, but later realized that it was mainly a matter of money. I was curious to see how much work it really is to release a physical object. Now, some months later, I see that it's a lot - and in fact not only a matter of money but also of dedication. I have deepest respect for all the small labels going through this procedure regularly.
However, here it is, an edition of 50 CDr's.
I hope you like it.

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ART / Re: watching

« on: April 19, 2011, 08:59:46 am »

never let me go

how is this one? i'm looking forward to see it next week.

127 hours

that one disturbed me. the combination of danny boyle's style (the lighting, camera, cut) and this story was really weird, but in the end turned out to function really great.
btw. in germany it's rated FSK12 - i'd rather not let my 12 year old see this movie (if I had a 12 year old, anyway).

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SYNTHESIZERS + SOUND-MAKING HARDWARE / Re: Korg = Analog?!?

« on: April 10, 2011, 10:54:21 am »

and the mono tribe HAS 16 steps.
pressing the one of the buttons is can be used as a "shift button" that enables to set another 8 steps. (some guy at another forum found it out on the messe)