December 2011
37 posts
WatchSeth Horvitz, Study No. 4 for Automatic Piano (Sixteen Diatonic Glissandi Moving at Harmonic Rates)
This gets mindblowing once it’s a minute in. The MFA thesis Horvitz wrote after composing his works for automatic piano is really interesting, even if you just download it to look at the visual piece overviews right at the end. This part about an early composer for automatic piano is...
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“We’re finding spectacular people who — given access to [the...”
– Neil Gershenfeld
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Physical Investment
I like what Things had to say regarding Grafik Magazine’s tumblr which showcases production images and research from the unfortunately disbanded publication:
It seems ironic that in such an image-obsessed era, a magazine utterly at the heart of aesthetic culture is unable to survive. Our collective lack of desire to actually physically invest in the things we all study, swap, post,...
“All forms of compression eventually meet their logical end, where whatever...”
– Brad Troemel, from his (freely available) collection of essays, Peer Pressure.
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November 2011
30 posts
