Articles by Kevin Press

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  Koeosaeme

  Obanikeshi

  PUBLISHED May 16, 2019

  Ryu Yoshizawa's latest under the name Koeosaeme is launched with a 13-second radio news bumper gone wobbly. It is an entirely suitable intr...

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  M. Grig

  Mount Carmel

  PUBLISHED May 13, 2019

  Fans of Daniel Lanois will be familiar with the Canadian producer's love of pedal steel guitar. "My little church in a suitcase," as he des...

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  Caterina Barbieri

  Ecstatic Computation

  PUBLISHED May 6, 2019

  Somewhere along the way, the spirit of early electronic music shifted from large-scale grandiosity to a more modest laptop DIY aesthetic. T...

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  Jackie Mendoza

  LuvHz

  PUBLISHED Apr 23, 2019

  Among other things, political rhetoric does harm by limiting our ability to understand one another in something other than dogmatic terms....

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  Johanna Knutsson

  Tollarp Transmissions

  PUBLISHED Apr 18, 2019

  Tollarp sits near the southern tip of Sweden, home to fewer than 4,000 residents. Like most small towns, it tends not to maintain a hold on...

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  Alvin Lucier

  Orpheus Variations

  PUBLISHED Apr 9, 2019

  It may be the least linear piece of music you've ever heard. Influential American composer Alvin Lucier has transformed a seven-tone chord...

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  Joep Beving

  Henosis

  PUBLISHED Apr 2, 2019

  Dutch composer Joep Beving began work on what would become a trilogy of albums in relative obscurity. As much to his surprise as everyone e...

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  Elder Ones

  From Untruth

  PUBLISHED Mar 26, 2019

  We can reasonably assume that New York avant-gardist Amirtha Kidambi does not want us to "eat the rich." That being said, she delivers the...