February 2010
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Don Simmons: “Limehouse Blues”
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Alois Hába: Suite for Four Trombones in...
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Georges Aperghis: Avis de tempête (2004)
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Ruth Crawford Seeger: String Quartet, third...
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Guest essay
“The Tinkering Method: How Computer Learning Informs Music Pedagogy,” by Jeff Lundy
Music and statistics are among my most passionate intellectual dabblings. Recently, I struck upon the crazy idea of seeing what people have done at their intersection. To my luck, I discovered that the statistical analysis of music recently experienced a small resurgence among music...
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Thomas Bloch: Formule (1995)
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Armando Sciascia: “Circuito Chiuso”
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Weaponized Sound
A staggering taste of Steve Goodwin’s new book Sonic Warfare: Sound, Affect, and the Ecology of Fear, from a review by Geeta Dayal at Rhizome:
Goodman catalogs a litany of military uses of sound that seem like sinister science fiction fantasies. The “Urban Funk Campaign” was a suite of audio harassment techniques used by the military in Vietnam in the early...
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Pierre Barbaud: French Gagaku (excerpt, 1968)
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