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callahan
26 days
callahan & witscher 'think differently' record release full band premiere gatekeeper (dungeon session) headless (the life/ion pack) dj maggie lee thursday, september 12th at @UnionPool tickets:
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4 years
my ariel pink story is soundchecking his band in 2018. he leaves for literally 30 minutes in the middle of it (hmmm...) comes back & up to FOH. plays with the bass EQ for 2 min & says it sounds good. i look down at the EQ and it looks like this. i reset it when he walks away
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3 years
you make "music" that easily blends into the environment and is often best experienced passively. i make "music" that immediately makes people ask to turn it off. we are not the same
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4 years
more statues like this (john coltrane in high point, nc)
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3 years
i saw la monte young perform on his birthday yesterday and i kid you not he literally played "bad to the bone" with a tabla player for 90 minutes and it was sublime
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5 years
16 year old tony williams with jackie mclean, from the first night they played together, boston 1962
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4 years
we need statues of max roach, cecil taylor and eric dolphy in brooklyn
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3 years
mego is the mount olympus for our scene, that's it. a monumental curatorial achievement and now a gaping hole in our ever shrinking ecosystem
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2 years
when are we going to be able to talk about Toxic Sincerity in contemporary "experimental" music?
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4 years
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2 years
new burial sounds good
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2 years
Instrument: Vox Hit 3 Tempo: 180.0 Played in the key of E.
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4 years
i met milford at the stone in 2008 when he played a duo with evan parker. i went up to him and said "mr. graves you've been my favorite drummer since i was 16." he said "well how old are you now?" i sheepishly replied "...18." he looked at me for a second and laughed
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4 years
here is my promo tweet: i am a mastering engineer with a studio in queens. please get in touch for professional mastering through nice ass analog gear for a very reasonable price. please rt!
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4 years
new desk hmu for mastering banhmiverlag @gmail .com thanks
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1 year
i need to smoke a blunt with this dude
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3 years
cecil taylor: “logic is the lowest form of magic”
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3 years
rest in peace phil schaap. new york just got a little less real. i'll never forget being 19, driving & stumbling upon WKCR, where some guy w/a thick ny accent was talking about the specifics of one charlie parker bootleg for 45 minutes & then played literally 3 minutes of music
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4 years
rest in peace to the professor
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3 years
people who like ween have emotional problems
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1 year
american music was recorded in living rooms rvg hackensack studio 25 prospect ave / motown 2648 west grand blvd / dj screw 7678 greenstone st / dilla's los angeles studio 132 n sycamore ave
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3 years
anyone who doesn't like stevie wonder is a psycho
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4 years
it's starting to feel like highly conceptual experimental sound music isn't as important as we thought it was
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3 years
rest in peace sylvano bussotti. most of you international art english types might know his work from the intro to 1000 plateaus
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3 years
feels trite posting this to social media, but… alvin lucier’s music changed my life. his understanding of the role of The Composer as more of a facilitator than a sculptor, the simultaneous rigor and levity with which he approached his work and his ability to step aside (1/x)
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4 years
if this is where things are going, we're done. it's over. i can't think of a more pretentious, classist and just plain stupid grift
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3 years
to make money as an experimental musician in america these days it seems you either have to pander to the market ("maybe the weeknd will let me produce his next record!") or pander to the grant machine ("my work deals with decentering the sounding body and its positionality rela-
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5 years
eric dolphy was preparing to study with nadia boulanger before he died in 1964, which would have put him in the same courses as philip glass, who studied with her from '64 - '66. how about that for alternative timeline
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5 years
"Xenakis held rock music in ... [high] esteem, commenting on a show by the MC5 that if the 'electric guitars are loud enough you can hear all the sounds in the universe.'"
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phill niblock had the sharpest mind, quickest wit and biggest heart. he always had time for you. a massive loss for the world of underground art
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3 years
really brutal and depressing to have the new record you think is really strong work get swallowed by the algorithm. do i need to hire a press agent? do i need to know someone at twitter? do i make highly unlistenable and unpopular music? 2 out of 3 are definitely true
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2 years
if i hear any more underwater pads/subdued diatonic noodling with vinyl crackle over it i'm going to blow my fucking brains out
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3 years
new speakers! email banhmiverlag @gmail .com for a mastering quote 💯
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4 years
please do not make fun of my music
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3 years
happy 81st birthday herbie
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2 years
last night was an extremely humbling experience. hundreds of hours of labor over the last 6 months went into the music we made and it was an honor to be able to share it with you. thank you to everyone who came and apologies to everyone who was unable to get in.
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3 years
kieran daly plays thelonious monk's "brilliant corners" live at triest, 9/3/21
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8 months
phill showed us how to build your own context in a world where one doesn't exist yet (and in nyc of all places - even harder to imagine these days): running his own venue, booking his own concert series, managing his own label, all under the umbrella of his own arts organization
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2 years
NYC 11/18 save the date
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4 years
protect alvin lucier at all costs
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4 years
sonny rollins and henry grimes
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4 years
i make experimental music because i have severe emotional problems
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4 years
i'm a freelance sound engineer & most of my income is from live events, all of which have been cancelled but for years i have also been mastering records (digital & vinyl)! if you're looking for a good, meticulous engineer willing to work with your budget, hmu! PLZ SHARE 🙏
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i met albini at a fest in australia we did with shellac in 2015. in addition to being a role model as a sound engineer, for living life with conviction outside the mainstream and also having a cool guitar tone, he was very nice guy. incalculably major loss
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3 years
today is the 20th anniversary of napster shutting down
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2 years
david behrman at bard
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4 years
mark fell and rian treanor discussed my record 'housed' in the latest issue of wire 💀💀💀 mark fell: "how much longer is it?"
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1 year
i am become bored, leaver of shows
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3 years
can someone please help me realize this piece at a gallery? the microphone is feeding back through an auto feedback reduction patch i built. serious inquiry... please help me... please
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callahan
10 months
new site is up. we've been working on this behind the scenes for the entire last year. albums, editorial, profiles, pay with card
@ninaprotocol
Nina
10 months
We used to joke that Nina was the hardest way to release music. That’s no longer the case. In fact, we think it may be the easiest. Nina v2 is live. Beyond being easier to use, your most-requested features are here: Albums. Discovery. No crypto required. Nina is 100% Music.
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5 years
should i make a bánh mì verlag bandcamp? please comment and like
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5 years
i just found out that @KerriChandler shared a video of my piece "106 Kerri Chandler Chords" .. if you see this kerri, please dm me or email me at tetembe @gmail .com so i can send you a 12" of this piece. absolute respect maestro chandler
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4 years
a point that very few of you will care about: trout mask replica is still a completely singular record because unlike most of the music it influenced (no wave, etc) it's not "noisy," rather the harmonic/melodic material used is very clean and precise but just extremely dissonant
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3 years
10 years ago i had a composition lesson with tom johnson. i brought a score that was a set of instructions, prefaced with a deleuze quote. he read through the score & quickly crossed out the quote ("you don't need that"), a moment which profoundly affected my artistic life
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3 years
once again @SLINGBLADElean and i did not make it onto any year-end lists, specifically our album "stockhausen syndrome", but at least it was written about in the MIT Computer Music Journal
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3 years
masonna "frequency lsd" (1998), track 1 at an average of +1.5 LUFS (a scale that is really not supposed to go into the positive), it kind of puts the loudness war in perspective
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3 years
happy 88th birthday to master wayne shorter
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tell your homies you love them
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also important to remember how time consuming it was to realize music of large amounts of microtonal sustained pitches in the 1970s, whereas today it takes approximately 4 lines of simple code in supercollider, which is a free program
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4 years
today is the 50th anniversary of the release of bitches brew 🍲
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4 years
jürg frey gave me good advice as a young(er) composer: don't worry about recognition, especially when you see people around you getting it. just keep working at your art. because someday someone might come calling and you better be ready
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this is an unreleased jack callahan LP from 2021 on iDEAL (canned due to b***k** austerity measures). the record deals with the confusion around the word 'compression' it's up at @ninaprotocol , if you buy it you get the lossless files and the full art:
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4 years
dude lighten up
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more statues like this (duke ellington in harlem)
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morton feldman on steve reich: "[he] came from a family that lived in the dakota, where lennon was shot...and that's his background. what kind of music can you expect from someone with a little badminton racket getting into an elevator with lauren bacall?"
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4 years
happy 89th birthday king ALVIN
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3 years
me talking to a 19 year old gabber dj outside of mood ring
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today is donald trump's 74th birthday >:( boo today is also my 30th birthday (: yay
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2 years
what an honor to make music with your best friend and share it to a sold out house in your own city, there is no better feeling in the world
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2 years
an anecdote about a show i booked >10 years ago at hampshire college appears in the intro to mattin's book on urbanomic, "social dissonance". jarrod looked me in the eyes & said "how does it feel to be confused?" joker vibes 🙄 also notable, big homie kieran daly made the flyer
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happy birthday to my hero elvin jones. in 2003 i met him backstage at the dakota in mpls & he signed my copy of live at the village vanguard. my jazz combo played brunch sets there so when elvin shook my hand he said "hey jack i've been hearing about you." i'll never forget it
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i am very excited to announce FLEA, a new music label with @SLINGBLADElean our first 3 releases are now available for purchase domestically (international customers will be able to buy from select distros in the coming weeks):
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the response to @nina_market_ has been incredible. thank you to everyone who has believed in it and trusts that it's not some speculative, scammy, get-rich-quick gimmick but rather a step toward giving artists the tools they need to control their music online 💯💯💯
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4 years
protect pharoah sanders at all costs
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2 years
nina night #5 : james ferraro barb wire (first show) rfid 12/15 @UnionPool @ninaprotocol
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5 years
would anyone buy if i reprinted this shirt?
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for a multitude of reasons i hold the conviction that we are at literally the absolute worst time in human history for making art
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10 months
Callahan & Witscher "Hate the Player (feat. Ana Roxanne)" First single featuring the amazing on vocals from forthcoming Callahan & Witscher LP "Think Differently" on PPM in 2024 Video directed by @SLINGBLADElean & yours truly, starring @lilicalways
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4 years
the taco bell sound is an e3 played on a dx7, patch 26 "tubbells"
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3 years
i pride myself in making music that absolutely does not work for background listening, mixes or dj sets
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2 years
next saturday i am playing guitar and singing in the MBV cover band. i have personally spent over a year preparing for this and have possibly put more effort into it than i have ever put into my own music
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4 years
george lewis's "voyager"
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larry polansky, giant in the field of algorithmic music, composer of rounds, teacher of many composers and friends, developer of HMSL, founder of frog peak, has passed. i have a nice memory of laughing and walking around gowanus with him after a studio session a decade ago. RIP
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threatening journalists by saying that if they don't review my record i will continue to make music
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4 years
the highest praise i can receive is from my 18 year old cousin
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bro what is this 🤣🤣🤣 this really might be the worst band of all time
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3 years
richard davis on eric dolphy
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rest in peace jon hassell, your music changed my life
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4 years
i am happy to report that i just received a voicemail from kerri chandler
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3 years
absolutely incredible resource for anyone interested in working with processes, videos of tom johnson going through his pieces and explaining the systems in detail
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5 years
need-to-know bassist
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remember when i used to eat sardines for dinner...
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10 months
kevin drumm is the loudest soundcheck i have ever witnessed in my life
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4 years
moodymann: "Hell, I thought Kraftwerk was four n****s ... Until I bought that album. ‘Cause “Trans-Europe Express” used to be a skate jam ... That was a classic motherfucking record, and we thought that shit came out of Detroit for the longest." RIP florian schneider
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i de-noised an incredible unreleased mix (first 2 min are used in the "classic mix" but this is full 6 min, no drums!) of the classic frankie knuckles production from the cassette rip. the only other version is from 2008, mono and full of artifacts. enjoy!
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2 years
fuck the transcendent spectacle of "virtuosity" in art, ALL my homies hate the transcendent spectacle of "virtuosity" in art
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3 years
massively hungover from drinking one sip of an IPA
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