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		<title>Inline MP3s</title>
		<link>http://www.ibiblio.org/emusic-l/2008/01/25/inline-mp3s/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Jan 2008 22:52:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve added a new Wordpress plugin that will let me inline a player with MP3 links. Here&#8217;s a sample of a noise piece I made a while back using Thonk:Â Joe McMahon &#8211; An Ocean of Liquid HeliumÂ - click on the little speaker icon following the link to play the track.
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I&#8217;ve added a new Wordpress plugin that will let me inline a player with MP3 links. Here&#8217;s a sample of a noise piece I made a while back using Thonk:Â <a href="http://ibiblio.org/mcmahon/third_sound/_an%20ocean%20of%20liquid%20helium_.mp3">Joe McMahon &#8211; An Ocean of Liquid Helium</a>Â - click on the little speaker icon following the link to play the track.</p>
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		<title>The Avant-Garde Project</title>
		<link>http://www.ibiblio.org/emusic-l/2007/07/02/the-avant-garde-project/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jul 2007 21:14:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Avant-Garde project is &#8220;a series of recordings of 20th-century classical-experimental-electroacoustic music digitized from LPs whose music has in most cases never been released on CD, and so is effectively inaccessible to the vast majority of music listeners today.&#8221;Some wonderful stuff that&#8217;s just not available any other way. It&#8217;s being released via BitTorrent (though older [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The <a href="http://www.avantgardeproject.org/index.htm">Avant-Garde project</a> is &#8220;a series of recordings of 20th-century classical-experimental-electroacoustic music digitized from LPs whose music has in most cases never been released on CD, and so is effectively inaccessible to the vast majority of music listeners today.&#8221;Some wonderful stuff that&#8217;s just not available any other way. It&#8217;s being released via BitTorrent (though older &#8220;releases&#8221; are available direct from the project website), and includes some absolute gems which I&#8217;ve alwas wanted to hear. Subotnick&#8217;s <a href="http://www.avantgardeproject.org/AGP6/index.htm"><em>The Double Life of Amphibians</em></a>, an example of his &#8220;ghost electronics&#8221; technique; three <a href="http://www.avantgardeproject.org/AGP18/index.htm">indeterminate</a> pieces from John Cage; and a set of <a href="http://www.avantgardeproject.org/AGP28/index.htm">underwater recordings</a> of &#8220;humpback whales, beluga whales, narwhals, orcas, and bearded seals.&#8221;<strong>Update:</strong> The AGP has released several more recordings of particular interest, one of which is &#8220;The World of Harry Partch&#8221; (<a href="http://www.avantgardeproject.org/agp57/index.htm">AGP 57</a>), which I&#8217;ve missed ever since I heard it once at a friend&#8217;s house on vinyl. It&#8217;s particularly notable for the great (and funny!) performance of &#8220;Barstow&#8221; with Partch himself as the principle vocalist.</p>
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		<title>Crossing the Horizon: Brian Flanders/Nauseous Youth Future</title>
		<link>http://www.ibiblio.org/emusic-l/2006/11/18/crossing-the-horizon-brian-flandersnauseous-youth-future/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Nov 2006 21:27:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The blurb on CD Baby reads: &#8220;A singing canary being thrown into a helicopter engine, yet still able to sing within the grinding noise of the chopper.&#8221; Well, yes. That&#8217;s a good summary.
But don&#8217;t let this put you off. Dosage combines a real melodic sense (chords! form! modulations! more than one key!) and glitch done [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The <a href="http://cdbaby.com/cd/nauseousyf">blurb</a> on CD Baby reads: &#8220;A singing canary being thrown into a helicopter engine, yet still able to sing within the grinding noise of the chopper.&#8221; Well, yes. That&#8217;s a good summary.</p>
<p>But don&#8217;t let this put you off. <em>Dosage</em> combines a real melodic sense (chords! form! modulations! more than one key!) and glitch done with <em>style</em>. Yes, it is possible, twenty-minute pointless laptop improvisations notwithstanding. Take slightly creepy, sometimes haunting, sometime plaintive melody. Add rhythm tracks ranging from straight-ahead shuffle to light-speed drum-n-bass, all completely composed of crunchy fuzzy squelchy noises, manipulated with a gleeful digital buzzsaw. Now the hard part: make it <strong>work</strong>. <em>Dosage</em> does.</p>
<p>I&#8217;m normally not much of a glitch fan: too often the aesthetic seems to be more &#8220;I am obviously far more an artiste than you, for I like this&#8221; or maybe &#8220;man, I  cannot <em>believe</em> you putting up with this and applauding&#8221;. Nauseous Youth Future comes from a place that says &#8220;this genre has something to say that can&#8217;t be said otherwise&#8221;. Anything that does that is worth a listen.</p>
<p>There&#8217;s a lot of technical excellence here too. In-your-face, dry glitchiness combined with cavernous processed spaces &#8211; which are subject themselves to the glitch treatment <em>in toto</em>. There&#8217;s also a good sense of musicality, with nice choices of instrumentation. No fear of allowing either pure glitch or pure melody its own time before recombining them again.</p>
<p>Overall, I think this CD does a great job of bridging genres, with its own interesting aesthetic. Definitely worth a listen.</p>
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		<title>Music for replicants</title>
		<link>http://www.ibiblio.org/emusic-l/2005/01/21/music-for-replicants/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Jan 2005 22:36:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[On another ChucK note, I&#8217;m finding some of the algorithmic composition programs in the ChucK examples to be wonderful ambient background music for working.I particularly like band-o-matic for its nice FM textures &#8211; gently drifty and slow-moving. mode-o-matic is also a lot of fun, and a little more surprising in its choices, with a lot [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>On another <a href="http://chuck.cs.princeton.edu">ChucK</a> note, I&#8217;m finding some of the algorithmic composition programs in the ChucK examples to be wonderful ambient background music for working.I particularly like <tt>band-o-matic</tt> for its nice FM textures &#8211; gently drifty and slow-moving. <tt>mode-o-matic</tt> is also a lot of fun, and a little more surprising in its choices, with a lot greater dynamic range. It often sounds like a collection of pentatonically-obsessed xylophonists, with an occasional foray into &#8217;60&#8217;s &#8220;computer&#8221; effects.</p>
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		<title>Eigenholidays</title>
		<link>http://www.ibiblio.org/emusic-l/2005/01/21/eigenholidays/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Jan 2005 21:33:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Those wacky MIT guys at Eigenradio (now, sadly, shut down due to graduation) have put together A Singular Christmas, a collection of holiday music filtered through their bizarro networks, dedicated to finding only the really different parts of the music.
Giant cloudy organ sustains, bowed church bells. String ensembles hovering on the edge of sense. Music [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Those wacky MIT guys at <a href="http://eigenradio.media.mit.edu/">Eigenradio</a> (now, sadly, shut down due to graduation) have put together <a href="http://eigenradio.media.mit.edu/christmas_2004.html">A Singular Christmas</a>, a collection of holiday music filtered through their bizarro networks, dedicated to finding only the really different parts of the music.</p>
<p>Giant cloudy organ sustains, bowed church bells. String ensembles hovering on the edge of sense. Music written by a deeply disturbed Ligeti clone. Escaped experiments from a mad ambient musician&#8217;s studio. The Boston Pops after a really bad drug experience. Threatening industrial undertones behind smooth metallic planes. Between-the-stations experiences on a cross-universe radio. Great stuff.</p>
<p>Those wanting a different musical experience will find this to be literally about as different as you can get.</p>
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		<title>Crossing the Horizon: Steve Castellano</title>
		<link>http://www.ibiblio.org/emusic-l/2004/10/19/crossing-the-horizon-steve-castellano/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Oct 2004 21:26:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Okay, so I&#8217;m looking at the Metasonix website, which has the most wonderful selection of hurtful signal processors, including the (perhaps not safe-for-work) Agonizer. And I see a link to this guy Steve Castellano. Having listened to some of the really nasty noises that the Agonizer could make, I figured, hey, I&#8217;m on a roll, [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Okay, so I&#8217;m looking at the Metasonix website, which has the most wonderful selection of <em>hurtful</em> signal processors, including the (perhaps not safe-for-work) <a href="http://www.metasonix.com/TX1.htm">Agonizer</a>. And I see a link to this guy Steve Castellano. Having listened to some of the really <a href="http://www.metasonix.com/TX1Karma.mp3">nasty</a> noises that the Agonizer could make, I figured, hey, I&#8217;m on a roll, let&#8217;s see what his stuff sounds like.</p>
<p>Folks, Steve can <em>cook</em>. I listened to the first minute or so of &#8220;Shame On You&#8221;, with the Dubya samples (nicely used, too!), and then grabbed everything he had. I&#8217;m listening to <a href="http://stevecastellano.com/audio/increased.mp3">Increased In Strength</a> and I keep turning it up. This is a Good Sign. Yow!</p>
<p><em>Way</em> recommended!</p>
<p><a href="http://stevecastellano.com/index.cgi/sc/audio/">http://stevecastellano.com/index.cgi/sc/audio/</a></p>
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		<title>Gamelan Nyai Saraswati</title>
		<link>http://www.ibiblio.org/emusic-l/2004/08/24/gamelan-nyai-saraswati/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Aug 2004 21:37:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Also hosted here at ibiblio is Gamelan Nyai Saraswati, the UNC gamelan ensemble. Audio available.
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Also hosted here at <a href="http://ibiblio.org">ibiblio</a> is Gamelan Nyai Saraswati, the UNC gamelan ensemble. <a href="http://www.ibiblio.org/gamelan/audio/index.php?group=Gamelan_Nyai_Saraswati">Audio</a> available.</p>
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		<title>&#8220;I am Sitting in a Room&#8221; and others</title>
		<link>http://www.ibiblio.org/emusic-l/2004/06/18/i-am-sitting-in-a-room-and-others/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jun 2004 21:52:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The setting: a small room. Two tape recorders. Alvin Lucier records a short text on one, plays it back over the speakers &#8230; and records that. Repeat. Repeat. Repeat &#8230;Each generation has less voice and more of the room&#8217;s resonance: the voice slowly becomes dissolves into hisses, howls, and metallic gonglike noises. The only recording [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The setting: a small room. Two tape recorders. <a href="http://alucier.web.wesleyan.edu/">Alvin Lucier</a> records a short text on one, plays it back over the speakers &#8230; and records that. Repeat. Repeat. Repeat &#8230;Each generation has less voice and more of the room&#8217;s resonance: the voice slowly becomes dissolves into hisses, howls, and metallic gonglike noises. The only recording of this piece is unfortunately now out of print. Luckily for us, <a href="http://www.ubu.com/">UBUWEB</a> has preserved it in <a href="http://ubu.artmob.ca/sound/source/Lucier-Alvin_Sitting.mp3">MP3</a> format, and you can download yourself your own copy.Exploration of the site highly recommended &#8211; you can even find Luigi Russolo&#8217;s original wack-job essay on <a href="http://www.ubu.com/papers/russolo.html"><em>The Art of Noise</em></a> there, along with a slew of other interesting items. I plan to snag the <a href="http://www.epc.buffalo.edu/sound/mp3/sp/airwaves/13_TWO_SONGS_FOR_TAPE_BOW_VIOLIN.mp3">Laurie</a> <a href="http://www.epc.buffalo.edu/sound/mp3/sp/airwaves/14_IS_ANYBODY_HOME.mp3">Anderson</a><a href="http://www.epc.buffalo.edu/sound/mp3/sp/airwaves/15_ITS_NOT_THE_BULLET_THAT_KILLS_YOU.mp3">rarities</a> there as well.p.s. &#8211; the Alvin Lucier website mentioned above also has a recording of <a href="http://alucier.web.wesleyan.edu/listen.html">Music for Piano with One or More Snare Drums</a>, which I find quite beautiful. Subtle, very subtle.</p>
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		<title>The EMUSIC-L Listening Page</title>
		<link>http://www.ibiblio.org/emusic-l/2004/06/18/the-emusic-l-listening-page/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jun 2004 21:41:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Now online for your enjoyment: the Listening page.
I&#8217;m in the process of collecting up interesting pieces from around the Net. &#8220;Interesting&#8221; is subject to my own peculiar tastes. Feel free to send me pointers to items of interest; I&#8217;ll only put up the stuff I like, and I won&#8217;t slam it if I don&#8217;t like [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Now online for your enjoyment: the <a href="http://ibiblio.org/emusic-l/listening/index.html">Listening</a> page.</p>
<p>I&#8217;m in the process of collecting up interesting pieces from around the Net. &#8220;Interesting&#8221; is subject to my own peculiar tastes. Feel free to send me pointers to items of interest; I&#8217;ll only put up the stuff I like, and I won&#8217;t slam it if I don&#8217;t like it &#8211; but I won&#8217;t put it up if I don&#8217;t like it either. (Sometimes it takes me a while to decide if I like a piece, so patience please.)</p>
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		<title>Crossing the Horizon: Elaine Walker / Chaos Melody Theory</title>
		<link>http://www.ibiblio.org/emusic-l/2003/11/12/crossing-the-horizon-elaine-walker-chaos-melody-theory/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Nov 2003 21:15:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Elaine Walker has done some interesting stuff with iterated function systems, mapping points in both the real line and the complex plane to melodies. Melodies that almost but don&#8217;t quite repeat, and which vector off at strange angles from your expectations.  Hynotic minimalist metallic sculptures. What Philip Glass might sound like if he came [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://www.ziaspace.com/elaine/">Elaine Walker</a> has done some interesting stuff with iterated function systems, mapping points in both the real line and the complex plane to melodies. Melodies that almost but don&#8217;t quite repeat, and which vector off at strange angles from your expectations.  Hynotic minimalist metallic sculptures. What Philip Glass might sound like if he came from a planet orbiting the Crab Nebula.She has a four-movement piece (mp3&#8217;s: <a href="http://www.ziaspace.com/elaine/chaos/1minusrxsquared/movement1.mp3">1</a> <a href="http://www.ziaspace.com/elaine/chaos/1minusrxsquared/movement2.mp3">2</a> <a href="http://www.ziaspace.com/elaine/chaos/1minusrxsquared/movement3.mp3">3</a> <a href="http://www.ziaspace.com/elaine/chaos/1minusrxsquared/movement4.mp3">4</a>) that explores different points of the complex space laid out by the equation 1-rx^2, as well as a <a href="http://www.ziaspace.com/elaine/chaos/ListeningExamples/CCimprov.mp3">live improv</a>.I&#8217;ve heard a number of &#8220;music from chaos&#8221; pieces and have generally been bored silly within a few minutes. Walker&#8217;s pieces, however, are lively and interesting. Very tasty stuff. Her <a href="http://www.ziaspace.com/elaine/chaos/">thesis</a> on the subject is good reading.[update 01/08] &#8211; Since I originally found her work, she&#8217;s been doing a <span style="font-style: italic" class="Apple-style-span">lot</span>Â of recording: the bandÂ <a href="http://www.ziaspace.com/ZIA/sections/bio.html">ZIA</a>,Â <a href="http://www.myspace.com/numbersine">Number Sine</a>, andÂ <a href="http://www.ziaspace.com/ZIA/sections/music.html#ELAINE">solo work</a>Â as well.</p>
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