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Musical performance and the machine: thoughts on the interplay between technology and the human musician [posted: 12.06.09]
Paper given at Coventry University National Music Performance Symposium (10th June 2009)
‘Bravo for this software. Works like a Swiss watch’. (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 […] -
A discussion of two Futurist works [posted: 21.03.09]
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 […] -
In praise of the one-hit wonder [posted: 19.03.09]
The one-hit wonder is pop’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’ the Tardis’ in 1988. The idea was to smuggle it past the radar without anyone knowing that what had […]
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