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make – share – repeat

By sam | Published: March 26, 2010
Contemporary scholarship in music composition has always born a close relationship to technology. From mechanical improvements in acoustic instruments, early developments in computer music at Bell Laboratories and the current glut of inexpensive “off the shelf” software and hardware solutions for non-linear audio editing and signal processing, composers such as Beethoven, Stockhausen and Radiohead have [...]
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beat to the punch

By sam | Published: November 10, 2009
I’ve recently become obsessed with the San Francisco based duo Pomplamoose. I was perhaps a bit disheartened that someone was already doing something very much like that which I propose to do with my dissertation – and they do it so well. While the group makes money by selling original music online, the real gems [...]
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audimus, videmus, somnimus

By sam | Published: September 24, 2009
audimus, videmus, somnimus – We hear, we see, we dream. This is the first entry for and ongoing account of my dissertation in music composition at Michigan State University. As my good friend and former band mate Carl Cadwell put it “The laptop has replaced the guitar on college campuses.” This is right on point [...]
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