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	<title>mark marrington</title>
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	<pubDate>Mon, 03 May 2010 21:18:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>&#8216;Ringtonic&#8217; wins Comedy awards from Garageband.com!</title>
		<link>http://markmarrington.com/2010/04/25/ringtonic-wins-comedy-awards-from-garagebandcom/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Apr 2010 16:08:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mmarrington</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8216;Ringtonic&#8217; is Comedy track of the day on 25.4.10 and will be Comedy track of the week from 26.4.10.
See here: http://www.garageband.com/song?&#124;pe1&#124;S8LTM0LdsaShY1W3ZGk
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		<title>MadeinMIDI launches!</title>
		<link>http://markmarrington.com/2010/04/25/madeinmidi-launches/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Apr 2010 15:47:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mmarrington</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[citron gin]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[MadeinMIDI is ecstatic to announce its inaugural release, &#8216;Ringtonic&#8217;, by latest signing, Hebden Bridge based &#8216;bitbeatist&#8217;, Citron Gin.
Listen/purchase here: http://www.reverbnation.com/citrongin
or at Amazon: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Ringtonic/dp/B003J14YUO/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&#38;s=dmusic&#38;qid=1272759611&#38;sr=8-2
Citron Gin on MySpace: http://www.myspace.com/citrongin
&#8216;Ringtonic&#8217; sheet music available in the near future so that you can re-visit the finer moments in four-part harmony around the old Joanna.
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		<title>Today&#8217;s aphorism</title>
		<link>http://markmarrington.com/2009/08/22/todays-aphorism/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 22 Aug 2009 11:18:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mmarrington</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Most people talk over music unless they&#8217;re told not to. Discuss.
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		<title>Britishness and the classical guitar after 1950: composers, performers and identity in the contemporary British guitar repertoire</title>
		<link>http://markmarrington.com/2009/08/22/britishness-and-the-classical-guitar-after-1950-composers-performers-and-identity-in-the-contemporary-british-guitar-repertoire/</link>
		<comments>http://markmarrington.com/2009/08/22/britishness-and-the-classical-guitar-after-1950-composers-performers-and-identity-in-the-contemporary-british-guitar-repertoire/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 22 Aug 2009 10:55:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mmarrington</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[The guitar]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[   
Re-worked paper first delivered at the Galpin Society&#8217;s ‘Making the British Sound&#8217; Conference in Edinburgh (July 10 2009).
In his essay ‘The Cultural Study of Musical Instruments&#8217;, Kevin Dawe points out that musical instruments are ‘as symbolic and emblematic of peoples and places as any other musical phenomenon&#8217; and when they cross cultural boundaries (for example [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fugue on the Final Countdown - Why?</title>
		<link>http://markmarrington.com/2009/06/12/fugue-on-the-final-countdown-why/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Jun 2009 23:36:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mmarrington</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Musical composition]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[ Programme note from the performance given on June 7 2009 at Leeds College of Music (conductor Dan Keen, Leeds College of Music Community Symphony Orchestra).
The Fugue on the Final Countdown employs the famous theme by 1980s ‘hair metal&#8217; band Europe as its subject.  Those of a certain age will recall that it was impossible to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Musical performance and the machine: thoughts on the interplay between technology and the human musician</title>
		<link>http://markmarrington.com/2009/06/12/musical-performance-and-the-machine-thoughts-on-the-interplay-between-technology-and-the-human-musician/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Jun 2009 15:15:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mmarrington</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[ Paper given at Coventry University National Music Performance Symposium (10th June 2009)
‘Bravo for this software. Works like a Swiss watch&#8217;. (R. Sanchez, Cirque du Soleil)
In March 2004 the New York Times reported on a legal tiff between Local 802 (the New York branch of the American Federation of Musicians) and a music technology company called [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A discussion of two Futurist works</title>
		<link>http://markmarrington.com/2009/03/21/a-discussion-of-two-futurist-works/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Mar 2009 18:20:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mmarrington</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Umberto Boccioni (1882-1916), Unique Forms of Continuity in Space, 1913 (cast 1972), bronze, 117.5 x 87.6 x 36.8 cm, Tate Modern, London.
Gino Severini (1883-1966), Suburban Train Arriving in Paris, 1915, oil on canvas, 105.1 x 132 cm, Tate Modern, London.
The two works chosen for discussion were conceived by Italian Futurist artists at the height of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>In praise of the one-hit wonder</title>
		<link>http://markmarrington.com/2009/03/19/in-praise-of-the-one-hit-wonder/</link>
		<comments>http://markmarrington.com/2009/03/19/in-praise-of-the-one-hit-wonder/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Mar 2009 00:40:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ The one-hit wonder is pop&#8217;s true art form. Bill Drummond claims that he and Jimmy Cauty (in the guise of the KLF) were trying to elevate the one-hit wonder to the status of art with ‘Doctorin&#8217; the Tardis&#8217; in 1988. The idea was to smuggle it past the radar without anyone knowing that what had [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The musician is a machine</title>
		<link>http://markmarrington.com/2009/03/16/the-musician-is-a-machine/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Mar 2009 23:08:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mmarrington</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Musicians operate machines or ‘instruments&#8217;, which simply described are an extension of the physical body into non-human materials like wood and metal. In some cases it can simply be machinery situated ‘on site&#8217; within the human body, such as the vocal cords. In most cases it is a combination of three individual machines: (a) the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Thoughts on Malevich&#8217;s Black Square</title>
		<link>http://markmarrington.com/2008/06/26/thoughts-on-malevichs-black-square/</link>
		<comments>http://markmarrington.com/2008/06/26/thoughts-on-malevichs-black-square/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jun 2008 13:04:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Kazimir Malevich (1878-1935), Quadrangle (or The Black Square), 1915, oil on canvas, 79 x 79 cm.
Malevich&#8217;s Black Square was first displayed in December 1915 as part of the exhibition entitled ‘Last Futurist Exhibition of Paintings: 0.10&#8242; at the Nadezhda Dobychina Gallery in Saint Petersburg. It currently hangs in the Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow. The work is [...]]]></description>
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