August 21st, 2004
Modular Oblongata
Originally printed April 2003 — Before there were synthesizers in my house there were electronic music albums. Silver Apples of the Moon. Snowflakes Are Dancing. Switched On Bach. The cover of Switched On Nashville featured a miniature banjo player sculpted out of solid state parts and coiled wires. The cover of Switched On Country featured [...]
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A Brief History of Timbre
The medieval cornett (not to be confused with the modern trumpet variant) was a pretty popular instrument if you go back 500 years or so. Every Renaissance ensemble had one. It was eighteen inches of wood wrapped in leather, had a mouthpiece similar to that of a brass instrument, and finger holes along its length [...]
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