Category: Series of posts
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The Core Is Getting Soft.7: The Kunst of Kunz
A quick look at ebay tells me that a used Roland Juno 60 can run you in the neighborhood of $550 to $1,195. If you’re really lucky, you can pick one up that was used on tour by Ministry, with their own presets still intact! I once considered purchasing a used Juno 60 at a […]
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Corporate Welfare.3: Welfare Wings
Today the Real News Network, who I encourage you to support during their current drive to win a matching gift, is reporting that “the Michigan strategic fund has decided to issue $450 million in bonds for a new stadium for the Detroit Red Wings, 44% of which will be financed publicly,” while the city is […]
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The Core is Getting Soft.6: Ohm…Ohm….Ohm….
While the last post in this series on plug ins and virtual instruments, “Tuba Time,” proved that there are some truly atrocious digital products out there, this should not cause one to give up hope. One of the best software developers out there, the French company Ohm Force, make fantastic products, and they are on […]
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Corporate Welfare.1: Blackwater’s Warfare Welfare
(This is the first in a new series of posts about how corporations that claim to generate profit in the private sector are heavily subsidized by taxpayers in ways that I could only wish fields like education and healthcare were. For an overview on that, see “Free Lunch: How the Richest Americans Enrich Themselves at […]
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The Core is Getting Soft.4: Redwirez Rulez
It’s a tough enough job convincing folks that they shouldn’t look down on music software when it comes to stuff people use when holed up in recording studios. But the guitar amplifier is a public affair. Imagine a live rock band pulling out a laptop onstage instead of rolling out fearsome refrigerator size amplifiers. […]
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Other John Davises.5: The Day the Dream Died
Dreams. We all have them. We all want to live them. We all suffer from this misguided aspiration when we wake up to the reality of lived experience. Green Day can sing about the Boulevard of Broken Dreams all they want, but they’ve never tasted anything like the intense disappointment I have recently experienced after […]
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Secrets of the Temple.2: Double Dutch
(This is a follow up to the post Secrets of the Temple.1: More Than a Doorstop, dated 1/13/13.) As I wrote in my first post on William Greider’s history of the Federal Reserve board, one of the aims of “Secrets of the Temple” is to question whether Ronald Reagan really was the primary source of […]
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Top 40 Over 40.12: Morton Feldman, Piano and String Quartet
I’ve listened to lots of records I’ve liked over the last 10 years, but the recording the Kronos Quartet made of this piece is probably my favorite. It seems remarkable that such a strange thing of beauty could be recorded at Skywalker Sound, George Lucas’s compound in Northern California. Morton Feldman spent the […]
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