Archive for the ‘Criticism’Category
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“Let’s start with a proposition…High-quality recording is style-agnostic.”
— George Massenburg
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04 2010
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Abbey Road Underground Station
I’m confused. Apparently EMI did not intend to sell Abbey Road. Hmmm….
BBC: Abbey Road studios ‘not for sale, says EMI
In any event, I’ve compiled here a number of photos fellow engineers have posted on the web from sessions at the famed studio over the years. Enjoy.
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02 2010
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02 2010
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“We should also remember that no machine is a wizard, as we are beginning to think, and we must not expect our electronic devices to compose for us.”
— Edgard Varese (The Electronic Medium, 1962)
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01 2010
Greg Kot: Another Fine Appraisal of The “Aughts”
Greg Kot, music critic for the Chicago Tribune and author of two great music books of the past few years—Wilco: Learning How To Die (2004) and Ripped: How The Wired Generation Revolutionized Music (2009)—is one of the best chroniclers of contemporary music culture. His blog, Turn It Up, is always a great read.
While wandering casually across cyber-land over the past few days, looking for interesting retrospectives on the past decade in music (as opposed to all the perfunctory, self-important, vacuous “Best Of” lists), I came across Kot’s December 18th blog entry. Like Jon Pareles’ piece today in the Times, it’s an apt compendium of the salient music trends of the last ten years. Enjoy.