Kevin Press
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The Black Dog will release a four-track EP in January entitled Music For Dead Airports. If that title sounds familiar, it’s because their 2010 album Music For Real Airports was so warmly received. The multimedia project presented in collaboration with Human was a follow-on to Brian Eno’s Music For Airports. The four pieces that make…
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Pianist Edouard Ferlet says his new EP Reset is a kind of “dialogue with a second mechanical piano driven by a machine.” He’s promising a follow-up album in the new year, based on the same approach. “The human aspires to the virtuosity of the robotic gesture while the robot tries to imitate human movement and…
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Described as “a destabilizing trip in the psyche where one disintegrates components of the self, dissociating from all in its environment,” this new Hüma Utku video supports the release earlier this year of The Psychologist on Editions Mego. Video artist Utku Önal’s work on “Dissolution of I” is stunning.
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Much-admired Canadian composer and sound designer Phil Strong passed last week at the age of 59. He had been receiving treatment for amyloidosis. Strong was an extraordinary talent, recognized for his work in film, dance, theatre, musical performance, art installations and education. Earlier this year, he won a Canadian Screen Music Award in the Best…
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This week’s favourites: Plus one from the archives:
The Moderns 