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Sarah Kirkland Snider – Penelope
No, silly, this album is not about Penelope Pitstop from Wacky Races, so sit down and stop yelling, “Yay!” It does, however, tell a story about another Penelope whose “husband appears at her…
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Mark Applebaum – The Metaphysics of Notation
Mark Applebaum’s The Metaphysics of Notation is a musical composition based on a purely graphic score with no written or verbal instructions. For a whole year, this document, which more closely resembles abstract…
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Iannis Xenakis at the REDCAT 2011
Los Angeles, California January 28-30, 2011 Friday, January 28, 2011 Presented by the Center for Experiments in Art, Information and Technology, the first night of this three-day festival kicked off in a surprising…
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Iannis Xenakis: Composer, Architect, Visionary at MOCA
Los Angeles, California November 2010 – January 2011 From November 2010 through January 2011, Los Angeles’ body became the recipient of a great, big, fat, donor belly full of events based around the…
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Henry Gwiazda – Claudia and Paul
If John Cage designed Grand Theft Auto, the results would be a lot like Claudia and Paul, a trio of ultra low-key, animated videos that examine the decaying velvet ropes between art and…
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Phil Kline – Around the World In a Daze
Not only was John Cage the first to use the turntable as a musical instrument, with his piece “Imaginary Landscape No. 1” way back in 1939, he also used 12 radios in “Imaginary…
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Arcane Candy’s 2010 Favorite Releases
(In alphabetical order by artist name.) New Releases • Dara Puspita – 1966-1968 CD (Sublime Frequencies) • Group Doueh – Beatte Harab LP (Sublime Frequencies) • Omar Khorshid – Guitar El Chark LP…
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Various Artists – Fire in My Bones
Complied by Chemical Imbalance and Yeti publisher Mike McGonigal, Fire in My Bones is a thoroughly combustible set of Raw and Rare and Otherworldly African-American Gospel. We’re talking no less than 88 tracks…
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David Lee Myers + Marco Oppedisano – Tesla at Coney Island
On his third outing, New York City-based guitarist Marco Oppedisano teams up with David Lee Myers to produce 13 tracks of “eclectic music for electric guitar, feedback circuitry and computer distortions.” Like his…
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Marco Oppedisano – The Ominous Corner
On his second CD, New York City-based guitarist Marco Oppedisano offers up quite an odd, off-the-menu combo in the form of some sweet, shredding rock guitar that could fit right in on Pink…
