New layout is up. That’s right, I’ve finally decided to dive into the dark world of web development, although I didn’t think it would be as oppressively dark as the page layout turned out. Although I normally tend to gravitate to stories about novel instrument uses, but lately I’ve become enamored with Chet Atkins. His [...]
I hope I haven’t become too obsessed with guitar hero knock-offs and derivatives lately, but this project seemed too fascinating to ignore. http://www.thereminhero.com/ Theremin hero seems to adapt the theremin to function as a controller for guitar hero. The volume antenna controls the note trigger and the pitch antenna controls the note value. If you [...]
… and realistic controllers. The game features new instruments, including an octave and half keyboard and a 17-fret guitar w/ six strings. I’m not going to wax and wane philosophical about whether this is good or bad for music. If it’s a fun game, I think the creators have done good work, but with rumors [...]
Writer for the New Yorker, Alex Ross, muses on possible explanations why John Cage is still held in such disdain while so many of his contemporaries like Rauschenberg and Pollock are hailed as visionaries. Perhaps the answer to his question rests in the nature of aleatoric music itself. Although Cage did experiment with other techniques, [...]