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Serendipitous synthesis

Dr. Albert Hofmann
1906-2008

Power. Thirty minutes of absolute power…

Then the pointer hits Sandy and he picks up a task, a slip of paper.  It is in Gretch’s handwriting, and it says: “Go out and build a fire.”  He reads it out loud and just keeps staring at it.  Then they all stare at him, waiting for him to get up and go out […]

Texture of sound

This is a really great look at onkyo, a new genre of electronic in which sound texture is more important than sound structure. No melody, few harmonics, mostly just pure sound. This particular style of onkyo is called “no-input” because it is created by plugging electronic musical gizmos like samplers and mixers back […]