Electronic
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Pianist Nicoletta Favari and percussionist Christopher Salvito make delicately picturesque music, informed by both their shared interest in travel and instrument design. The combination of these two inspirations, and of the artists themselves, lends Passepartout Duo recordings a spirit of wanderlust driven by – but not confined to – geography. For their latest, a seven-track…
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Kevin Richard Martin admits to “a certain amount of trepidation” about tackling his latest assignment, a rescoring of Andrei Tarkovsky 1972 cinematic masterpiece Solaris. Not only is the film regarded as among the best science fiction productions ever made, it already features an extraordinary soundtrack. Soviet electronic music pioneer Eduard Artemyev paired his work with…
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It remains unclear whether JonOne intended for that young Seoul couple to “participate” in – perhaps on is the better term – his “Untitled” work, currently displayed at the Street Noise exhibition in Lotte World Mall. If you missed the story, the American artist also known as John Andrew Perello submitted his 2016 work to…
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We’ve come to love texture in our electronic music. It may be the single thing that best defines the genre presently. Found sounds and other grainy flourishes have helped make electronic music a meaningful reflection of what it’s like to live in a 21st century world. Better than any other artform, it portrays our ambivalence…
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Of all the gifts given me by my parents, the one I’m most grateful for is optimism. I resisted it of course. Like all living, breathing teenagers I knew deep in my bones that whatever mom and dad were selling was by definition a con. Something to make me grow up like them. My father…
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Today is the 10th anniversary of former Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak’s resignation, following 18 days of protest that were part of the region’s Arab Spring. We will recognize a host of similarly consequential 10-year anniversaries in the weeks and months ahead: the catastrophic earthquake and tsunami off the coast of Japan that led to the…
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