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Philip Blackburn – Ordo
Philip Blackburn is a British-born, St. Paul, Minnesota-based composer who has been active since the 1980s, when he earned degrees at the Universities of Cambridge and Iowa. Best known as the director of…
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Jon Christopher Nelson – The Persistence of Time and Memory
I just have one request. I’m working on a new performance art piece as part of a college course I just enrolled in. Can you and I get together sometime soon and talk…
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Arcane Candy’s 2023 Favorite Releases
(In alphabetical order by artist name.) New Releases • Alma Maru – Alma Maru CD (Daft Alliance, 2021 release) • Tony Conrad, Arnold Dreyblatt, Jim O’Rourke – Tonic 19-01-2001 LP (Black Truffle) •…
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Ake Parmerud – Jeu d’ombres
Swedish composer Ake Parmerud has been working full-time with instrumental and electro-acoustic music and multi-media art for theatre, dance and film since the late 1970s. Released in 2003, his Jeu d’ombres CD consists…
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Francis Dhomont – Jalons
Although he dabbled in music throughout the 1950s, eye-patched French composer Francis Dhomont (born 1926) has, since the early ’60s, devoted himself exclusively to the composition of acousmatic music, which may be thought…
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Natasha Barrett – Isostasie
Composer Natasha Barrett works in the realm of acousmatic, electro-acoustic, instruments with live electronics, sound installations, multi-media works and computer music improvisation. Born in the United Kingdom in 1972, in the 1990s she…
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Francisco Lopez – Untitled 74
This CD, titled Untitled 74 by Francisco Lopez, consists of one track that is 48 minutes and 48 seconds long. The following is a minute-by-minute description:
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Roger Reynolds – For a Reason
“Roger Reynolds (born 1934) studied music composition at the University of Michigan. Together with fellow classmates Robert Ashley and Gordon Mumma, he was a founding member of the ONCE Group. In the late…
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Matmos – A Chance to Cut is a Chance to Cure
After three releases on their own Vague Terrain imprint*, San Francisco electronica duo Matmos visit the sad, vain and vacuous world of California cosmetic surgery on their first widely available effort, A Chance…
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Bardo Pond – Set And Setting
This group of Philly cheese steaks first mitted my attention back in ’95 (19, that is) with their coming out party platter of yore, Bufo Alvarius. Seems that most every member of the…
