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Keith LeBlanc on Time & Space in Music

Interview with Keith LeBlanc - Ministry, Tackhead, Sugarhill Gang, Nine Inch Nails...

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Write Better Words: A Step by Step Guide

Turn up at the page (and avoid cliches like that one). How to be a better writer....

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Music shouldn’t be easy to listen to: Lisbon Kid (Interview)

Lisbon Kid talk sounds, scenery and saudades...

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Neurocinematic Testing: Will It Make You Scream?

dropcap style=”font-size:100px; color:#992211;”I/dropcap t is always hard to predict the response of a massed audience, and almost impossible to objectively assess creative works. In the...

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Typical Metal Gig, But Better. (Battle of the Bays, Manchester)

Warm beer, loud metal. Manchester heats up for the Battle of the Bays...

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Subject Matters: Searching for The Perfect Pop Music Lyric

Man and The Echo’s Gareth Roberts waxes lyrical about the importance of good lyrics in pop music....

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Digital Practise Makes Reality Perfect. Yes, motion-controlled video games help you learn.

Motion-controlled video games may improve real world skills ...

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Have You Hugged a Musician Today?

Kanye doesn't like things near his bum, but otherwise, musicians need love. An essay on how to be a good fan....

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Shit music vs. Shamanic hardware with Author & Punisher

I think one of the main things destroying our country right now is the boredom of white people. We're bored and depressed so we collect guns and aim them at immigrants....

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Practise (Not Parentage) Makes Musicians

Genetics and environment work together to help people become accomplished musicians...

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Henry Diltz, Music Photographer [Interview]

I photograph t-shirts and I photograph tattoos and I photograph graffiti and people giving the peace sign and people giving the finger. David Crosby was always giving me the finger....

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Counterfeit i : Mindfulness and Music

'Dark' music can be empowering because in listening to it, your mind is brought through some places that you may not go on your own....

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No Score Draw : How Movie Music Fails Us

Stringwash and atmospherics? If you notice a film's soundtrack that means it's failed? Not in SWP's opinion. The art of the film score, revisited....

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Early music lessons boost brain development

Montreal researchers find that music lessons before age 7 create stronger connections in the brain...

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Icarus Line: You make your own L.A. reality: interview

"You make your own L.A. reality "Trebuchet interviews Joe Cardamone, lead singer of The Icarus Line to talk through life and touring. ...

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Metal, music, money and merch: for Malefice – life is a five letter word.

Metal, music, money and merch: for Malefice - life is a five letter word....

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The Free Music Mirage

Putting an End to a Persistent Illusion Steadily, over the course of the last 10 years, the idea that recorded music "has" to be free has been transformed from a radical stance taken by...

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Removal of restrictions decreases music piracy

New research from Rice and Duke challenges conventional wisdom that removal of restrictions would increase piracy levels. Researchers are still mulling over what, at least to most people, is a dead...

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Computers sing to a better tune

Now, Akio Watanabe and Hitoshi Iba have turned to evolution to help them devise a novel algorithm that compares the frequency curves from real human performances and uses them to home in on a more...

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World Music: Further Review (WOMAD 2008)

A critical review of where WOMAD 2008 exists in your cultural hearts...

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Chris Clarke: Acoustic Body Music

Chris Clark or simply Clark these days is a busy man, making music, incessant touring and learning new instruments.  While uncomfortable with the title of Warp records’ electronic standard...

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Alan Parsons ‘Sleeve Notes’ Talks at Abbey Road

A fascinating insight into technical and personal experiences at Abbey Road Studios....

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Soundscape Ecology : interview with Steven M.Miller

Sound has this wonderful ability to slip past our defenses and infiltrate our experience of place in ways we aren’t aware of, yet respond to nonetheless. Music is just one aspect of this much...

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Hectic Zeniths – 2011 Album Review

Hectic Zeniths are playing a dangerous game. It’s hard to describe the sound that pervades these tracks without recalling two very famous albums,  the very mention of which is likely to...

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Andres Serrano: Beyond The Pale

Andres Serrano interviewed by Robert Horvitz...

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Killer, Crime and Faith: Simon Bonney Interview

An interview with Simon Bonney from Crime and the City Solution...

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Power Up! Radical Community in the Sustainable Service of Art. 

Sustainability as an institutional force. A review of the Burn Out Symposium, July 2023, Luckenwalde, Germany. ...

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D_ance for the Disappeared

A performance exploring disappearance through paint and dance. ...

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Social Photography: Markéta Luskačová Interview

An interview with photographer Markéta Luskačová. ...

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Interdimensional Craft: Gerry Rafferty and Ásgeir 

Transcendence in Gerry Rafferty’s Rest in Blue and Asgeir’s Time on My Hands ...

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