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The Core is Getting Soft.12: Valhalla Freq Echo
“The best things in life are free.” “You get what you pay for.” If cliches are cliches because they’re true, which one of the above applies to free audio plug ins? Well, ca depend. When it comes to the Valhalla Freq Echo delay plug in, the answer is definitively the latter. This gem of…
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The Core is Getting Soft.11: TouchOsc
I’ve always been a latecomer to technology. When I got a fax machine in 1997, someone I worked with said, “Welcome to the ’80’s!” I didn’t get a cell phone until late 2008, and I didn’t get a smartphone until a few months ago. Continuing this trend, I got myself an iPad last week. The…
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Other John Davises.6: John Davis, Shrimper
Disambiguation: the issue haunts all John Davises, musical and otherwise. How to reach today’s web surfing music consumer when your name is ubiquitous? In the record store era, folks had only had to know enough about the alphabet to figure out that John Davis would come shortly before John Denver in the D section. Know enough…
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The Core is Getting Soft.10: Madrona Labs
There are some soft synths or plug-ins I’ve bought where I could have conceivably sprung for the hardware version instead. But there’s no way I could have ever afforded a Buchla synthesizer – until Madrona labs came out with their Aalto software synthesizer, which is inspired by the designs of Don Buchla, who invented the…
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Top 40 Over 40.16: Holding It Down
One possible answer to the question I posed in my post on Reckoning with REM – How come their early portraits of Southern life never said anything about the history of racist violence and forced labor in their native Georgia, even on their album Fables of the Reconstruction / Reconstruction of the Fables? – is that…
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Impersonal Problems.1: Thanissara
We’re used to thinking of problems as a word that goes hand in hand with “personal.” Of course, there are problems in our professional lives. But when we struggle with things that happen or come from outside of that realm, we tend to look at them as personal. I’ve been interested in several articles I…
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Corporate Welfare.8: Twitter Takes
There’s a new story out today from Julia Wong of In These Times about how Twitter’s headquarters in San Francisco “have become a symbol of gentrification and displacement for housing activists and community organizations in the city. ” I asked a friend of mine who had moved from the Bay Area to New York fairly recently…
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See Refrigerator Live online on March 1st at 6:40 pm!!!
This is such a beautiful picture it makes me a bit misty eyed… Refrigerator will be playing an event at the library where their lead singer Allen Callaci works in Rancho Cucamonga CA on the 1st of March at approximately 6:40 pm. This a rare chance to see these wonderful musicians live, even if it’s…
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Reckoning with early REM
Recently I’ve been working on two projects at the same time, Gnawing on the Bone and Soy Aqui. I usually don’t do this but have found that there is an upside to it that reminds me of the story behind the REM song Life and How to Live It. The song is about a resident…
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