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lights…camera…hardware store…kinkos…extension cords…

By sam | Published: August 4, 2010
The weekend of July 23rd, some friends and I took part in the Detroit 48 Hour Film Contest. The contest is an international event taking place during the summer in 90 cities. The rules are pretty basic. On Friday the 23rd, all teams met the contest organizers in Detroit were each randomly drew a genre [...]
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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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film_1

By sam | Published: October 20, 2009
film_1 three variations is a short introduction to me and the ideas behind my dissertation project.   For details about my project, follow the link at the right to my proposal.  Please feel free to comment and let me know what you think about this first piece.
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